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Artificial and constructed wetlands: sustainable drainage superstars
An artificial wetland is a constructed ecosystem designed to manage water and pollution through engineered processes that are designed to mimic natural processes using plants, soils, and microbes to treat wastewater or storm runoff. As a type of treatment wetlands, artificial wetland systems serve as a comprehensive ecological infrastructure for water quality improvement, supporting environmental…
Sustainability
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‘Transforming Drainage Design with AECOM’ using InfoDrainage + Civil 3D
As climate volatility and urban growth intensify, drainage systems are becoming a frontline resilience challenge. Across the UK and globally, heavier storms and expanding impermeable surfaces are overwhelming legacy sewer networks and increasing flood risk. These are a few reasons why regulation has been shifting toward more sustainable outcomes – and that’s why SuDS (Sustainable…
Drainage design
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InfoWorks ICM 2026.3: Raster workflows, expanded subgrid meshing, 2D boundaries, and a more polished interface
As urban drainage and flood modeling challenges continue to grow in complexity, modelers need tools that can scale with larger datasets, richer terrain detail, and increasingly global data sources, without adding friction to everyday workflows. In InfoWorks ICM 2026.3, we’ve focused on strengthening some of the most heavily used parts of the platform: raster-based workflows,…
Product news
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Make smarter asset decisions and get better fire flow insights in InfoWater Pro 2026.2
Water utilities are under increasing pressure to do more with limited resources by prioritizing the right assets, validating system capacity, and delivering reliable results they can trust. Hydraulic models play a critical role in these decisions, but only when insights are easy to generate, easy to explain, and grounded in real-world system behavior. In InfoWater…
Product news
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Best practice in sustainable drainage design: what’s holding SuDS approaches back — and what to do about it
As urban areas densify and climate-driven flood risk increases, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) have shifted from “nice to have” to essential — and in many places, effectively planning-required. Yet many organisations still struggle to deliver SuDS consistently due to fragmented processes, inconsistent requirements, skills shortages, and slow approvals. In our latest webinar, which was hosted…
Sustainability
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How professionals design rain gardens to effectively control stormwater runoff
In the urban environment, hard or impervious surfaces often block the natural process of infiltration, which means rainwater can’t soak into the ground. One very effective solution to this problem is a rain garden, a small stormwater control installation that mimics the natural environment as rainwater evaporates, gets absorbed by plants or soaks into the ground. A…
Drainage design
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Implementing the updated Australian Rainfall and Runoff guidelines to account for climate change
With heavy short-term rainfall events becoming more intense, it’s critical that Australia’s flood maps are dynamically altered to include the most up-to-date ARR guidelines. Because our software offers customizable rainfall calculations, you can adjust equations to go beyond standard calculations – to account for climate change or to apply specific details that affect your location. Australia is…
Storm, sewer, flood
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Using Ruby scripting with AI agents to extend and improve your hydraulic models
The art of hydraulic modeling straddles the intersection of creative ingenuity and technical prowess. Can AI agents help you be more creative and technically proficient even if you don’t have a background in computer programming? Creating an effective and accurate hydraulic model isn’t just about ingesting all of your data, but also about getting all…
AI and Machine Learning
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New capacity-based subscriptions for InfoWorks cloud simulations and Info360 applications
The way water professionals work is evolving. Projects are becoming more complex, data is growing, and teams need tools that can keep up as demands change. Traditional seat-based subscription models don’t always offer the flexibility to scale when priorities shift or networks change. That’s why Autodesk is introducing new capacity-based subscriptions for Info360 Asset and…
Product news
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Asset management Deterioration Modeling made smarter with Info360 Asset
Aging water and wastewater infrastructure presents a growing challenge for utilities: unexpected failures, costly emergency repairs, and uncertainty in long-term capital planning. Predicting which pipes are most at risk has often relied on incomplete inspection data or manual scoring, leaving asset managers with limited insight. The new Deterioration Modeling feature in Info360 Asset tackles this…
Asset management