
Water distribution utilities around the world are facing a rising number of challenges to maintain and operate their increasingly complex networks on tighter and tighter budgets. In the United States, 6 billion gallons of treated water is lost daily and 30% of water utility budgets for operations and maintenance are spent on energy costs for…
Operational analytics

The City of Brookings in South Dakota, like many other inland US cities, is struggling with increased amounts and instances of flooding. They enlisted ISG, a nationally recognized, 100% employee-owned, multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm to help them update the city’s master drainage plan, which hadn’t been revised in 15 years. ISG’s Jacob…
Customer stories

Autodesk has long been a leader in civil infrastructure and site design. With the addition of our comprehensive water portfolio in the last several years and our suite of construction tools, every aspect of civil planning, design, modeling, building, and operations can be done within the same cohesive and integrated ecosystem. While this is fantastic,…
Drainage design

InfoWater Pro 2025.4 is here, bringing Map Themes to replace the Map Display interface as well as some speed and UI improvements to make your hydraulic modeling work more efficient. New Map Themes replace Map Display One thing we always hear from users of InfoWater Pro is how easy it is for them to visualize…
Product news

VHB was looking for an integrated drainage solution for their land development projects, so they partnered with Autodesk to try out new modeling software. VHB engineers shared their experience using InfoDrainage with Senior Product Manager Samer Muhandes at Autodesk University in their excellent presentation Navigating Stormwater: How VHB Overcame Drainage Challenges Using InfoDrainage. We’re excerpting…
Customer stories

Fire hydrants are all around us. These above-ground pipe fittings can supply flows upwards of 1,500 gallons per minute to save lives and put out fires across the world. We all know what fire hydrants do, but how does a fire hydrant work? And why are they sometimes different colors? Called fireplugs, fire pumps, johnny…
Water distribution

InfoWorks 2025.5 is here, marking the last release of the 2024 calendar year. With it comes new abilities to copy cloud simulation results, run risk analysis on cloud databases, and improved NetCDF file formats for TSD objects. In this post, we’re going to walk through what each of these improvements mean for InfoWorks ICM users,…
Product news

Troubleshooting is an annoying necessity of hydraulic modeling. Why couldn’t my model just work right the first time!? Well, we feel your pain, and we want to make the model troubleshooting process even easier for you. With our new Simulation Health Reporting feature inside InfoDrainage 2025.5, the identification of continuity and convergence errors within hydraulic…
Product news

Transportation infrastructure like highways and roadways remains a vital component of modern engineering work, but – as any highway designer knows – with it comes a series of rigid guidelines for drainage and regulatory compliance. Autodesk has long been helping engineers and designers build better highways, and part of that mission is delivering drainage design…
Drainage design

The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change, which will only speed up as the climate shifts. GHD research estimates that droughts, floods and storms could wipe $5.6 trillion from the GDP of world’s top economies by 2050. Are we prepared as an industry for the challenges that are unfolding? Way back in…
Sustainability