Scott Arends, PE
Senior Associate
Scott serves as the Midwest Infrastructure Practice Lead and specializes in planning, design, permitting, and construction of dams, flood risk management, bridges, and complex hydrologic and hydraulic systems. He has significant experience as both a dam safety regulator and a consultant for industrial, municipal, state and federal clients. Scott's experience includes forensic failure analysis for complex civil works and water resource projects.
- Areas of Expertise
- Water resources
- Dam engineering
- Levee, floodwall, closure structure engineering
- Flood risk management
- Floodplain mapping/FEMA map revisions
- Hydrologic/hydraulic modeling
- Construction administration
- Professional Activities
- Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO)
- Illinois Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management (IAFSM)
- Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)
- Association of Conservation Engineers (ACE)
- Illinois Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE)
- Education
- BS, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- BS, Physics, Western Illinois University
- Certification/License
- Professional Engineer (PE)
