“I am excited to have started a new position as Principal Consultant with Kleinschmidt Associates. I will be supporting the development of our hydraulic engineering, fish passage, and hydraulic structures expertise. I will continue to expand my passion and our capabilities in pumped storage development and engineering studies.”

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Carl Mannheim has 26 years of hydropower-specific experience and specializes in hydraulic engineering of spillways, intakes, outlets, energy dissipation, and scour assessments in support of dam safety concerns, feasibility studies, and preliminary and final engineering design. He is an experienced project manager with a focus on clear concise communication and facilitating collaboration and engagement with his clients. Carl’s experience ranges from supporting engineering and alternative assessments of dam and spillway improvements with small efficient teams to leading screening, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of large hydropower and pumped storage projects using teams and subconsultants with multidisciplinary expertise. He is very experienced in physical modeling, having spent seven years (1999-2006) working in a physical modeling laboratory supporting spillway designs, and in the use of computational fluid dynamics as a preliminary design tool. The combination of his ability to understand both the value and limitations of various hydraulic modeling tools, such as CFD and physical modeling and his experience with actual hydraulic design, spillway design, assessments, and alternative analyses, makes him uniquely qualified to advise on hydraulic analyses relevant to the expansion of hydropower projects. 

Carl holds a Master of Science in Civil/Hydraulic Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a member of the National Hydropower Association, serving on the Pumped Storage Committee.