The American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE) is heading to the Mile High City, and Autodesk is excited to meet you there! Join us June 9-11 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for ACE 2025, the premier event…
Events
Every year, Autodesk releases its State of Design & Make report. This annual report compiles the thoughts and opinions of professionals across architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO), design and manufacturing (D&M), and media and entertainment (M&E). The new 2025 version of…
Industry news
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…
Storm, sewer, flood
If you’re a Civil 3D user, you might’ve heard the news that Autodesk has been making updates to the drainage capabilities inside of Civil 3D. Whether you’re a Civil 3D user, an InfoDrainage user, or someone who has never used either tool,…
Product news
This is the time of year when Autodesk releases its most significant software updates. While we are bumping up the numbers on our software – from 2025 to 2026 – we are delivering an exciting collection of product updates to our water…
Product news
Water distribution systems are complex networks, as you already know. One of the persistent challenges faced by municipalities and utilities is managing leakage – and ultimately reducing non-revenue water. Leakage problems represent a loss of valuable water resources, but they also impact the…
Product news
InfoWorks ICM 2026 just achieved faster, very accurate simulations using a simplified mesh thanks to Subgrid Sampling. Let’s look at how we did it. But first, we need to understand the problem at hand. The accuracy of hydraulic models has dramatically increased…
Product news
The highly anticipated ASCE 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure has just been released. How did America do? How did water do? Since 1998, the American Society of Civil Engineers has released these assessments every four years, providing both a grade score…
Industry news
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…
Drainage design
Certain stormwater controls are designed in ways that effectively divert water away from a site – but not cellular storage systems. Sometimes also called geocellular systems, geocellular attenuation tanks, or soakaway tanks, these Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS – aka LIDs/BMPs/WSUDs) capture stormwater…
Drainage design