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Grad student reimagines Oklahoma City with green infrastructure design using InfoDrainage
Summary Andrea Tavera, a former University of Oklahoma graduate student, used Autodesk drainage design software to promote LID-based, green infrastructure design in hopes of resolving Oklahoma’s two greatest drainage challenges caused by stormwater runoff: excessive flooding and pollution. Efficient drainage design A master’s student, Andrea Tavera focused her thesis on the evaluation of Low Impact…
Drainage design
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Introduction to InfoDrainage: free learning series
Are you looking to learn how to get started with InfoDrainage? We’ve created a series of videos for drainage design that is completely free and open to everyone. The course focuses on pipe design, simulation, and results analysis, with a special focus on representing SuDS. If you’ve been a user of the legacy product MicroDrainage,…
Drainage design
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Watch the Water Talk: Optimatics Optimizer + InfoWorks ICM
In our latest Water Talk, our friends at Optimatics and Jacobs Engineering joined Ryan Brown to share an overview of using Optimizer with InfoWorks ICM. Optimatics VP of Strategic Support Andrew Erikson kicks off the Water Talk showing how importing an InfoWorks database into Optimizer can remove the grunt work of a typical trial-and-error modeling…
Water Talks
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Water at Autodesk University: Day Three
We kicked off the day early with an 8 am session Info360 Operational Digital Twin for Water, and Product Manager Michael Pennell didn’t disappoint. Mike walked the attendees through the Info360 platform, reviewing trends in operational Digital Twins and how we’re moving simulation models to the cloud to enable powerful, real-time simulations. And, of course,…
Events
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Water at Autodesk University: Day Two
Day Two at AU2022 started with three excellent talks on sustainability, concluding with Catherine Topley of Scottish Canals. It was an inspiring talk about the incredible transformation the canals of North Glasgow has undergone in the last decade. And they did it with help from Autodesk software, draining the canal using sensors and weather data…
Events
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Water at Autodesk University: Day One
Autodesk University got off to a rousing start yesterday, with CEO Andrew Anagnost strolling on stage to the fanfare of a New Orleans brass band. This is the first time in three years AU has been held, owing to the pandemic, and the first time the event has been held in the Big Easy. Andrew…
Events
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How to utilize limited resources to address water loss during a drought
During drought, water loss becomes even more important for utilities and consultancies to track and mitigate the impact. Learn how.
Operational analytics
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Watch the Water Talk: a culture of continuous improvement with Digital Twins for water
Our latest Water Talk, Create Impactful Change within Your Organization by Implementing Digital Twin Technology, is done and gone. But that doesn’t mean it’s inaccessible. We put every Water Talk on our YouTube channel – and right here on the One Water blog. This time around, we talked about Digital Twins. Are there defined standards for…
Water Talks
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Scottish Canals: Turning Glasgow into a sponge city
When Scottish Canals, Glasgow City Council, and Scottish Water came together to create the Glasgow Integrated Water Management System under the wider umbrella partnership of the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership, they had a radical idea – to turn North Glasgow into a “sponge city”, utilizing long-neglected canals in an ecologically friendly way to absorb,…
Sustainability
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Drop-by-drop: a thorough approach to mitigating leaks, conserving water, and reducing costs
In regions with aging and decaying infrastructure, water utilities around the world have been dealing with reducing non-revenue water for decades, particularly the water leakage part. Because leaks continue to occur and grow, finding and reducing leakage is continuous work. Underground leaks can generate high costs for a water utility: treated water is lost, including…
Water distribution