Customer stories
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Cal Water’s big commitment to hydraulic modeling
California Water Service (Cal Water) is the largest regulated American water utility west of the Mississippi River and the third largest publicly traded water utility in the country. Formed back in 1926, the San Jose-based company serves 499,400 customer connections that snake through 23 districts throughout the state. But Cal Water is just one piece…
Customer stories
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How Arcadis uses scripting and cloud simulations to model endless water distribution possibilities
Arcadis, a global design and engineering consultancy, saw an opportunity to put Autodesk’s InfoWorks WS Pro through its paces to provide insights into one of California’s most complex water systems. One of the largest water utilities in northern California, one with an extensive and complex water network built over decades of suburban expansion, faced a…
Customer stories
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How ISG got their InfoWorks ICM software models FEMA approved
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
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VHB simplified and streamlined their workflows by adopting InfoDrainage
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
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How GHD created a CCTV + GIS solution for Aqua Pennsylvania with Autodesk and Esri tools
Aqua Pennsylvania provides water and wastewater services to 32 counties across Pennsylvania and operates more than 50 wastewater systems. They face the same challenges many water utility owners across the globe also face: finding ways to efficiently maximize the management of aging infrastructure. In 2023, Aqua’s Director of Engineering and Planning Michael Convery, along with…
Customer stories
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Trinity River Authority: Streamlining water treatment plant operations with an InfoWorks ICM digital twin
Tasked with protecting and maintaining the largest river basin entirely within the state of Texas, the Trinity River Authority (TRA) has its work cut out for them. In the northern region of the Trinity River Basin, TRA operates five major wastewater collection and treatment systems serving municipalities in one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in…
Customer stories
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Dredging up the past at the University Lakes of Baton Rouge to build a better future
We’ve been publishing lots of customer stories in the last few years, and we have a steady stream of new ones in the works, but every once in awhile we see a customer story from one of our partners that we want to call out for its good work. This past week, we saw that…
Drainage design
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How small consultancies like Climate Adaptive Systems use Autodesk Water Infrastructure software
At Autodesk, we get to interact with a diverse set of people throughout the water industry. From the world’s largest consulting firms all the way down to small businesses run by solo practitioners. While massive infrastructure projects often get the glamorous headlines, it’s important to remember that a large subset of the engineering field is…
Customer stories
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Saving lives with Türkiye’s National Flood Forecast Early Warning System (TATUS)
Türkiye is a beautiful and very topographically diverse country, with mountainous coasts bordered by major bodies of water. Increasingly severe weather events have led to catastrophic flooding in the country, but they aim to stem the tide with a national flood warning system that utilizes InfoWorks ICM and ICM Live to help sound the alarm…
Customer stories
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Project Centre: Designing drainage for a solar farm in the UK with strict requirements
Tasked with strict drainage compliance requirements for a solar panel farm in the UK countryside, Project Centre used their brand-new drainage software to streamline design workflows and achieve the results they needed. Solar farms are sprouting up all across the UK, and this green transition trend has become a bright spot in the UK’s economy.…
Customer stories