InfoDrainage

  • Do you need a Rainwater Management Plan? This Irish manual provides excellent guidance.

    Anthony McCloy is the managing director of McCloy Consulting and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars, provides university lectures, delivers national SuDS training workshops and has recently contributed to Ireland’s Rainwater Management Plans: Guidance for Local Authorities. Does your municipality need an RMP – a Rainwater Management Plan? In the UK, there are lots of…

    Drainage design

  • How does cellular storage work for stormwater control?

    Certain stormwater controls are designed in ways that effectively divert water away from a site – but not cellular storage systems. Sometimes also called geocellular systems, geocellular attenuation tanks, or soakaway tanks, these Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS – aka LIDs/BMPs/WSUDs) capture stormwater in large underground containers for slow release. But why utilize a stormwater control…

    Drainage design

  • The benefits of porous pavement in drainage design

    Sometimes called permeable pavement, porous pavement is an innovative and environmentally friendly approach to managing stormwater runoff in urban areas. As cities have grown, the sheer number of impermeable surfaces like roads, parking lots, and sidewalks has only increased, leaving traditional drainage systems struggling to cope with the volume of runoff. It leads to increased…

    Drainage design

  • What is a swale – and how do they manage stormwater?

    Swales are essential components in modern drainage design and play a significant role in managing stormwater runoff, rainwater runoff, and promoting sustainable drainage practices. These shallow, vegetated channels are designed to slow down, capture, and filter stormwater by controlling the flow of water through the swale, reducing the risk of flooding and improving water quality.…

    Drainage design

  • How does InfoDrainage compare to HydroCAD, TR-20 & TR-55?

    In the world of stormwater management and drainage design, selecting the right software tool is crucial for effective planning, analysis, and implementation. Among the myriad of options available in the water industry, we often get asked how Autodesk InfoDrainage compares to potential alternatives like HydroCAD, TR-20, and TR-55. Each of these tools offers unique features…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • What is an infiltration trench and how does it work?

    As the world’s drainage challenges grow, designers are constantly looking for new ways to handle stormwater. Commonly known as stormwater controls (SWCs), a subset of sustainable drainage systems, known as SuDS (LIDs/BMPs/WSUDs), have grown popular globally. SuDS work with nature, rather than against, and can be seen as more sustainable means of handling stormwater inflow…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • InfraWorks + Civil 3D + InfoDrainage: a powerful drainage design workflow

    Autodesk has long been a leader in civil infrastructure and site design. With the addition of our comprehensive water portfolio in the last several years and our suite of construction tools, every aspect of civil planning, design, modeling, building, and operations can be done within the same cohesive and integrated ecosystem. While this is fantastic,…

    Drainage design

  • VHB simplified and streamlined their workflows by adopting InfoDrainage

    VHB was looking for an integrated drainage solution for their land development projects, so they partnered with Autodesk to try out new modeling software. VHB engineers shared their experience using InfoDrainage with Senior Product Manager Samer Muhandes at Autodesk University in their excellent presentation Navigating Stormwater: How VHB Overcame Drainage Challenges Using InfoDrainage. We’re excerpting…

    Customer stories

  • Simulation Health Reporting now available in InfoDrainage 2025.5

    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

  • New batch of Water Drops: Using LIDs/SUDs, soakwell/drywell design, culvert analysis

    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