InfoWorks ICM

  • XPSWMM vs. InfoWorks ICM vs. InfoDrainage: Which solution do you need?

    First released for Windows in 1997, XPSWMM aided stormwater and flood professionals in taking on the water challenges of its time. It was an incredibly powerful tool that the water industry adopted to solve the challenges it faced. But time and software development always marches on. Over time, most users adopted more powerful solutions like…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • New in InfoWorks ICM 2026: Subgrid Sampling offers speedier sims

    InfoWorks ICM 2026 just achieved faster, very accurate simulations using a simplified mesh thanks to Subgrid Sampling. Let’s look at how we did it. But first, we need to understand the problem at hand.  The accuracy of hydraulic models has dramatically increased in recent years as innovations in hydraulic modeling solutions have put more and…

    Product news

  • An analysis of the ASCE 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure: How did water do?

    The highly anticipated ASCE 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure has just been released. How did America do? How did water do? Since 1998, the American Society of Civil Engineers has released these assessments every four years, providing both a grade score and an in-depth evaluation of the nation’s infrastructure, highlighting both advancements and areas…

    Industry news

  • 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 ISG got their InfoWorks ICM models FEMA approved

    The City of Brookings in South Dakota, like many other inland US cities, is struggling with increased amounts and instances of flooding. They enlisted ISG, a nationally recognized, 100% employee-owned, multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm to help them update the city’s master drainage plan, which hadn’t been revised in 15 years. ISG’s Jacob…

    Customer stories

  • Risk Analysis Runs for cloud and copying cloud simulation results in InfoWorks ICM 2025.5

    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

  • 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

  • How 2D mesh histograms lead to better model stability in InfoWorks ICM 2025.4

    InfoWorks ICM 2025.4 is here, delivering reporting and scripting enhancements, a new free viewer, and – significantly – 2D mesh element histograms for improved model stability, speed and results accuracy. As you know, hydraulic modeling involves some complex math on the back end. Given this, modeling software usually splits the properties of any given surface…

    Product news

  • Isolation vs collaboration: why we should expect parallel workflow capabilities in water engineering software

    Were you in the workforce or studying in 2010 when Uber, the Apple iPad, Microsoft Azure and 4G mobile data networks were released? If so, you will probably recall (perhaps with a sigh of nostalgia about simpler times, tinged with frustration) the sometimes-painful experience of being a team member contributing to a Word document, Excel…

    Commentary

  • Return Period Analysis (RPA) grid report and buildings updates in InfoWorks ICM 2025.3

    InfoWorks ICM 2025.3 is here with new updates enabling you to export Return Period Analysis (RPA) grid reports and automatically upload them into Info360 Asset. Additionally, improvements to building representation inside of InfoWorks ICM allows for better modeling of LIDs and SuDs. Let’s explore everything that’s new in the latest release. Return Period Analysis grid…

    Product news