Our most recent Water Talk delves into InfoWater Pro Allocator, an app within InfoWater Pro that automates junction node demand allocation. If you’ve never used it – or never heard of it – it can be a huge time saver. You can load up a GIS data set that you might already have on hand like…
Water Talks
Designing drainage gets a little bit harder when you adopt the complexities of green design, have a lot of local standards to meet, or need to translate your designs and show how it’s all going to work to a demanding audience. In our latest Water Talk, Hunter Sparks and Midori Patterson tackled the most common…
Drainage design
For 92% of the world, the highest extreme climate risk comes from precipitation-related events, with most of those driven by rain. If those numbers sound dire, they don’t brighten up when you factor in the infrastructure decline in the US. Thankfully, there are academic voices doing the difficult work of highlighting the challenges and coming…
Storm, sewer, flood
Qatar is one of the most water-stressed countries on Earth. Rainfall is low and mostly seasonal, so flooding can be a concern at specific times of the year, which is intensified by a flat and low-lying landscape. Or, at least, it used to be. As Qatar strives to reach their ambitious Qatar Vision 2030 goals,…
Customer stories
Recently, Representative Diana DeGette (CO-01), joined by Representatives Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Anne McLane Kuster (NH-02), Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Paul Tonko (NY-20) sent a strong statement to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan emphasizing the importance of adopting forward-thinking digital technologies in the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s water investments. The letter…
Commentary
Colby Manwaring recently sat down with Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure‘s editorial director to talk about how important it is for water industry thought leaders to explain the potential of digital twin technologies to US policymakers who are currently fleshing out the way new funds will be used to shore up the nation’s water policies. As…
Commentary
We’ve been hard at work on new functionality in Info360 Asset, and we showed off how it works in our most recent Water Talk. We talk about how this feature – and a few others in this latest update – can help you make smarter capital planning decisions. Decision trees are a great tool to…
Asset management
Looking for a quick, basic tutorial for InfoWorks ICM? We have lots of great content on our support portal when you want to tackle every step, but sometimes watching over someone’s shoulder is a great place to start. So grab a source of data – a node, boundary, sub-catchment or whatever you have to start…
Storm, sewer, flood
Recently, Colby Manwaring sat down for an interview with Kim Slowey of The Construction Broadsheet to discuss the potential opportunities and barriers that might result from the newly passed $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill will provide around $65 billion toward water infrastructure needs. Unfortunately, this will not nearly be enough to…
Commentary