• Powerful cloud capabilities now included with InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro subscriptions

    It’s global launch time at Autodesk! This means the 2024 versions of our core water solutions are now available to our customers. This year, we have a monumental release for water distribution, wastewater, stormwater, and flood modelers alike. We’re thrilled to announce that our subscription offerings of InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro now come…

    Product news

  • Jacobs designed an innovative, flood-resistant amphitheatre that stores 150,000 gallons of water underground

    In the town of Sidmouth on the South West coast of England, Jacobs, a leading technical water consultancy, not only designed a flood alleviation scheme that protects residents and properties but created an innovative, unique, impeccably sustainable, dual-use amenity for residents. It’s a strikingly beautiful example of blue-green infrastructure. The Sidmouth area has a long…

    Drainage design

  • The ‘World Water Gap’: A simplified way of thinking about the world’s water problems

    As we all know, the first step in solving a problem is understanding the scope of the problem. But getting a good understanding of the state of the world’s water problems can be a daunting task. The UN has led the way in collecting data around water and sharing it as broadly as possible to…

    Commentary

  • Public roadmap for Autodesk’s water solutions now includes both desktop and cloud products 

    Over the past year, Autodesk’s public-facing roadmap for water solutions has included insight into the development of our Info360 cloud products. Today, we’re excited to expand this roadmap to include core desktop solutions, providing transparency to our full product vision and strategy. Our product roadmap is focused on delivering continuous improvements to our existing capabilities…

    Product news

  • Water Talks in droplet form: The answers you need in the time that you have

    Your challenges are our challenges. While this statement may sound cliché, I think it rang true for the thousands of viewers of our Water Talks webinar series over the past three years. Since April 2020, we’ve reached 30,000 registrants, hosted 14,000 live attendees, and answered over 2,600 questions! We’ve heard from the best and brightest…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • 7 good reasons to switch from XPSWMM to InfoWorks ICM

    First released for Windows in 1997, XPSWMM aided stormwater and flood professionals to take on the water challenges of the time. Now, 25+ years on, the water industry demands modeling solutions that can efficiently handle large data sets, that can help them crack complex flow conditions across multiple catchments, and that can manage different climate…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Rogers-O’Brien combined a drone with InfoDrainage to solve a problem quickly – and very accurately

    “We need you to come back to the site. There’s been some flooding.” No general contractor wants to find a message like that in their inbox half a decade after wrapping up a construction project. But a representative from Magnolia Montessori was indeed coming back to Rogers-O’Brien (RO). They were concerned because water was ponding…

    Drainage design

  • Extraordinary flood mapping project influencing the way we prepare for floods in Australia

    In 2016 and 2018, devastating floods affected Tasmania, resulting in millions of dollars in damage and leaving communities recovering from significant losses. Following these events the Tasmanian and Australian governments funded the Tasmanian Flood Mapping Project to better understand the statewide flood risk, help build stronger community resilience, and support effective emergency response and recovery…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • New in Info360 Asset: ArcGIS Online integration, risk scenario publishing, and a decision tree upgrade

    Info360 Asset, our asset management software-as-a-service product, continues to offer customers new functionalities that enhance their software experience.   In this update, you can connect Info360 applications, including Info360 Asset, directly to ArcGIS Online through a built-in integration. This allows ArcGIS customers to get started quickly, as geospatial data is a key component to the analysis and…

    Product news

  • Protecting Florence’s past from future floods

    What do Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Raphael, Galileo, Brunelleschi, and Botticelli all have in common? They all, at one point, lived in Florence, Italy. Home to the powerful and beneficent Medici family, this Renaissance city located beside Tuscany’s longest river, the Arno, has long been a wellspring of art and culture. But it’s also…

    Storm, sewer, flood