
Operations and maintenance (O&M) in water and wastewater management are at a crossroads. Aging infrastructure, regulatory demands, climate uncertainty, and labor shortages create immense challenges for utilities and municipalities alike. In this complex environment, maintaining service levels and system performance is not a simple task. However, the growing influx of data from utility plants and…
Operational analytics

InfoWorks 2025.5 is here, marking the last release of the 2024 calendar year. With it comes new abilities to copy cloud simulation results, run risk analysis on cloud databases, and improved NetCDF file formats for TSD objects. In this post, we’re going to walk through what each of these improvements mean for InfoWorks ICM users,…
Product news

Troubleshooting is an annoying necessity of hydraulic modeling. Why couldn’t my model just work right the first time!? Well, we feel your pain, and we want to make the model troubleshooting process even easier for you. With our new Simulation Health Reporting feature inside InfoDrainage 2025.5, the identification of continuity and convergence errors within hydraulic…
Product news

Transportation infrastructure like highways and roadways remains a vital component of modern engineering work, but – as any highway designer knows – with it comes a series of rigid guidelines for drainage and regulatory compliance. Autodesk has long been helping engineers and designers build better highways, and part of that mission is delivering drainage design…
Drainage design

Autodesk University 2024 in San Diego has come and gone. Did you miss it? We recently put together posts for all the best hydraulic modeling and best drainage design sessions, and this last post wraps up our AU2024 coverage by assembling the top sessions that feature our customers and partners. We’re always grateful for their…
Events

With our recent development efforts to bring InfoWorks ICM results into Info360 Asset, asset managers can now assess system capacity issues, evaluate LoF and CoF, and identify critical storm durations that impact the sewer and drainage network. This data-driven approach enables you better formulate your risk analyses and prioritize CIP more effectively, focusing on areas…
Asset management

The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change, which will only speed up as the climate shifts. GHD research estimates that droughts, floods and storms could wipe $5.6 trillion from the GDP of world’s top economies by 2050. Are we prepared as an industry for the challenges that are unfolding? Way back in…
Sustainability

To quote Marty McFly, “I have to tell you about the future!” And, while you can’t just walk into a store and buy plutonium in today’s world like you could in the future in Back to the Future, you can register for our webinar to see into the future – the future of Autodesk’s desktop…
Events

It’s almost that time of the year where we start singing “I’m dreaming of… land use and soil type polygons.” If that wasn’t how you thought the song went, then you may not be a drainage designer. When it comes to hydraulic modeling, our goal is always to model our networks and systems as accurately…
Product news

It’s been a dry fall in Colorado where I live (and indeed across the US). It’s also been a bit dry on the Water Drop workflow video front in the last month as many of us were meeting customers and industry regulars at Autodesk University. But you can consider this mini-drought over because we now…
Water Talks