Del Shannon, PE leads the dams and hydropower group in the US for Knight Piésold. He has over 35 years of experience working in the civil, geotechnical, and water resources fields with most of this experience working on the design, construction and safety of dams and levees throughout the US and internationally. Del’s work has been recognized with multiple national awards from the US Society on Dams and the Association of State Dam Safety Officials for his work on the design and construction of new dams and the rehabilitation of existing dams. Professionally, he contributes his time to a wide range of initiatives, professional associations, and non-profits focused on dams, levees and water resources. Some of these include the US Society on Dams (Past-President), Hydropower Foundation (President), USSD Concrete Dams Committee (Chair), International Commission on Large Dams (Member, Committee on Concrete Dams), American Society of Civil Engineers (Lead author for the dams section of the 2021 and 2025 Infrastructure Report Card), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (Project manager, Unified Tailings Dam Guidelines Project).