b'A dam successBetween 1954 and 2014, Thiess built eighty-three dams in Australia, an unmatched success rate in helping people live in one of the worlds driest continent.Gara River Dam in New South Wales was one of the many civil construction jobs that Thiess was branching into at the time, 1954.Julius Dam, 1970s.Dartmouth Dam, completed in 1979. It has a capacity more than six times that of Sydney Harbour and took six years to build.44'