Hydraulic modeling

  • XPSWMM vs. InfoWorks ICM vs. InfoDrainage: Which solution do you need?

    First released for Windows in 1997, XPSWMM aided stormwater and flood professionals in taking on the water challenges of its time. It was an incredibly powerful tool that the water industry adopted to solve the challenges it faced. But time and software development always marches on. Over time, most users adopted more powerful solutions like…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Do you need a Rainwater Management Plan? This Irish manual provides excellent guidance.

    Anthony McCloy is the managing director of McCloy Consulting and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars, provides university lectures, delivers national SuDS training workshops and has recently contributed to Ireland’s Rainwater Management Plans: Guidance for Local Authorities. Does your municipality need an RMP – a Rainwater Management Plan? In the UK, there are lots of…

    Drainage design

  • Generate dynamic digital twin hydraulic models with InfoWater Pro and Info360 Insight

    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

  • How do fire hydrants work? Why are they sometimes different colors?

    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

  • Integrated highway design with the Civil 3D + InfoDrainage end-to-end workflow

    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 path to digital transformation in water infrastructure is becoming more clear

    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

  • Great Scott – it’s a webinar! ‘How Autodesk is Shaping the Future of Stormwater, Wastewater & Distribution’

    To quote Marty McFly, “I have to tell you about the future!” And, while you can’t just walk into a store and buy plutonium in today’s world like you could in the future in Back to the Future, you can register for our webinar to see into the future – the future of Autodesk’s desktop…

    Events

  • Autodesk launches free viewers for InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro

    Autodesk has launched free viewers for InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro, making hydraulic models and model results more accessible to wider team members. These new viewers provide a new way to visualize models and enable further collaboration between teams, for non-modelers and modelers alike who may need to view InfoWorks models to understand the…

    Product news

  • Can you use InfoDrainage? What to do when an official drainage design manual doesn’t specify.

    InfoDrainage, our comprehensive site-scale drainage design and analysis software, was just approved for use in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina’s Stormwater Design Manual. Huzzah! This manual joins a growing list of approving authorities recognizing the capabilities of InfoDrainage and explicitly approving it for use on projects in their region. This begs the question: Can…

    Hydraulic modeling

  • 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