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Why water professionals should attend Autodesk University 2022
Autodesk University, or “AU” as many people have come to call it after its 20+ year history, is where connection happens. Industry leaders and makers come together to exchange ideas and tackle the biggest challenges we face head on. For the first time in person, water professionals will have more opportunities than at any AU…
Events
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How Dekalb County changed their modeling approach to more accurately model RDII
Dekalb County’s water professionals take their approach to rainfall management seriously, and they attribute their success to a unique approach that uses a Groundwater Infiltration Model (GIM) in InfoWorks ICM. For this project, Dekalb Watershed Management partnered with Jacobs Engineering to calibrate the wet weather flows in Dekalb County’s collection system model. Sometimes rainfall is…
Customer stories
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Watch the Water Talk: The advantages of using GIS data within your model
Our most recent Water Talk delves into InfoWater Pro Allocator, an app within InfoWater Pro that automates junction node demand allocation. If you’ve never used it – or never heard of it – it can be a huge time saver. You can load up a GIS data set that you might already have on hand like…
Water Talks
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Storing your data in the cloud is safer than you think
I’m curious to know: Where do you do your personal banking? I, for one, am more comfortable with my own hard-earned money being stored in the cloud than tucked under my mattress. And it seems I am one of almost 2 billion people using online banking, globally. My question is: If we are comfortable having…
Commentary
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Watch the Water Talk: Solving common drainage design challenges
Designing drainage gets a little bit harder when you adopt the complexities of green design, have a lot of local standards to meet, or need to translate your designs and show how it’s all going to work to a demanding audience. In our latest Water Talk, Hunter Sparks and Midori Patterson tackled the most common…
Drainage design
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Register now for Autodesk University 2022
From big ideas to better workflows, the Autodesk University (AU) community came together virtually in 2021 to learn new skills, explore new approaches to shared challenges, and step into the new possible. Autodesk Water Infrastrucutre made its debut on the virtual main stage last year with the announcement of Info360 Asset during the General Session…
Events
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The 3 biggest challenges utilities face with their storm, sewer, and flood models
Discover the 3 biggest challenges water utilities face with storm, sewer, and flood modeling and how to solve them.
Storm, sewer, flood
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FSR vs FEH: Which rainfall theory should I use?
The FSR/FEH rainfall-runoff method is a UK-based tool for flood estimation, which is often combined with statistical methods for flood frequency analysis where estimates of complete flood hydrographs and flood volumes are required. Which rainfall theory should you use when designing and simulating drainage networks for the UK – FSR or FEH? At the support desk…
Drainage design
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MIT Webinar: Building community resilience by reducing sewer overflows and improving flood management
For 92% of the world, the highest extreme climate risk comes from precipitation-related events, with most of those driven by rain. If those numbers sound dire, they don’t brighten up when you factor in the infrastructure decline in the US. Thankfully, there are academic voices doing the difficult work of highlighting the challenges and coming…
Storm, sewer, flood
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Water Talk: how to develop innovative emergency response plans
We host a new Water Talk every fortnight, and it was a relief to take a break from talking for a change and let our friend Susan Knepper from OHM Advisors tell their story during this most recent one. She went over past emergency scenarios and how the folks at OHM Advisors responded. It was…
Water Talks