December 2025 Webinar: A Progressive Design Build Case Study: Replacing the Lake Conestee Dam

Includes a Live Web Event on 12/11/2025 at 10:00 AM (MST)

Faced with an aging, unstable structure and the urgent need to protect a vital water source, the Lake Conestee Dam replacement project rose to the challenge—delivered months ahead of schedule and under budget. Located on the Reedy River in Greenville, South Carolina, just upstream of Lake Greenwood (the primary drinking water supply for Greenwood County), this critical infrastructure upgrade showcases the power of the Progressive Design Build (PDB) method in action.

The original 130-year-old masonry dam posed significant risks, holding back millions of cubic yards of sediment—much of it contaminated. With time and safety of the essence, the project team leveraged PDB to fast-track design and construction while maintaining cost control and collaboration.

Join Scott Jones, P.E. (Kiewit), Engineer of Record, and Heather Martin, P.E. (Kleinschmidt), Owner’s Engineer, as they walk through:

· The background and urgency of the Lake Conestee Dam replacement

· What Progressive Design Build is and why it was selected

· How the team navigated technical, environmental, and budgetary challenges to deliver a successful outcome

This webinar offers a compelling case study in how innovation and teamwork can transform urgent infrastructure needs into engineering success.

Heather Martin

Senior Engineer

Kleinschmidt Group

Heather Martin has been working in hydropower for Kleinschmidt since 2012, except for a 2-year excursion into the vertical building construction and design arena from 2018 through 2020. Since her return to hydro and Kleinschmidt in 2021, she has been working on penstock, gate replacement, hydropower, and of late, dam replacement and restoration projects both as a civil/structural engineer and project manager. Relocating from Maine to North Carolina in 2022, she now mostly works on projects in the southeast such as the Lake Conestee Dam Restoration Project.

Scott Jones

Principal Structural Engineer

Kiewit

Scott Jones is the Principal Structural Engineer for the Hydropower, Dams, and Hydraulic Structures Department at Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers. He has over 20 years of experience working primarily on the design and evaluation of concrete dams and appurtenant structures, such as spillways, radial gates, intake towers, and outlet structures. Scott served as the Engineer of Record for the design and engineering support during construction of Lake Conestee Replacement Dam in Greenville, SC.