On January 20, 1936, Prof. Farudin Hoxha was born in Gjirokaster, the designer of main large dams in Albania and the Chairman of the National Committee of Large Dams of Albania in the years 2000-2011. Prof. Farudin Hoxha, after graduating from the Polytechnic of Tirana, pursued higher studies in hydropower engineering in Budapest/Hungary and Sofia/Bulgaria […]

During December 2025, two very important international meetings were organized in which representatives of ALBCOLD participated as follow. 1- On 08.12.2025, the Meeting of Representatives of the European Dam Safety Authorities Network (EDSAN) was organized. At this meeting, the annual meeting of EDSAN in Bergen, Norway on 27-30 April 2026 was analyzed and discussed.  They […]

During July 2025, the National Committee of Large Dams (ALBCOLD) organized several important activities within the framework of the tasks defined in the legislation in force and the improvement of the work for monitoring dams. On 16.07.2025, the National Committee of Large Dams (ALBCOLD) organized the regular meeting for the month of July 2025. In […]

From 16 to 23 May 2025, the 28th ICOLD Congress and the 93rd Annual Meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) were organized in Chengdu, China. This important event was attended by more than 2700 experts in the field of dams, representatives of National Dam Committees from more than 100 countries around the […]

Working Visit of ALBCOLD team to the Japan for Experience Exchange in the Dam sector. From the period March 24 to March 29 a Team from Albanian Committee Of Large Dam (ALBCOLD), participated in a professional experience exchange visit to Japan, hosted by the Japanese Committee on Large Dams (JCOLD). This visit was as part […]

From September 29 to October 3, 2024, the 92nd annual meeting of ICOLD was organized in New Delhi of India. During the days of the annual meeting, many presentations were held regarding the issues that were addressed in this meeting. There were two presentations from Albania, which were received with great interest by the participants. […]

On September 12-13, 2024, in Athens, Greece, was organized the International Symposium on “Dams and Earthquakes” . This event was organized by the Greek Committee of Large Dams (GRCOLD) in cooperation with the Earthquake Group (EWG) of ICOLD in the meeting hall of the War Museum in Athens, Greece. The Symposium was attended by representatives […]

During the August 2024, ALBCOLD has organized several important activities within the framework of tasks defined in the legislation. On 27.08.2024, the National Committee of Large Dams (ALBCOLD) organized the usual meeting for the month of August 2024. In this meeting, several main issues were analyzed and discussed as follows: 1-Detailed Design for the Reconstruction […]

During the July 2024, ALBCOLD has organized several important activities in the framework of strengthening and improving the control sector in dams as well as in the framework of cooperation with the homologous Committees in Europe. Information about some of these activities is given in previous announcements that can be viewed on this website. On […]