Water is the original infrastructure. It’s the element people must have access to, the resource we have always sought to manage—from the first human settlements to today’s largest megacities.
Today, water management can mean many things. It means capturing and distributing fresh water for consumption and industry, as well as treating and disposing of wastewater. It means controlling groundwater such as rivers, lakes, and springs, managing sea level and mitigating rainstorms. From dams, canals, and irrigation systems to water mains, sewer networks, and treatment plans, we may not always think about water management, but there’s no part of our infrastructure that’s more essential.
And with the global population growing and climate change bringing a range of unpredictable effects to water supplies, the choices we make in water management have never been more important. A quarter of people around the world lack consistent access to safe drinking water. And the infrastructure that we use for water is, in many cases, aging. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 240,000 water main breaks each year contribute to the loss of more than $7 billion in treated water.
New digitized approaches are creating new possibilities for how we manage water, enabling us to better conserve the water we have, maintain and optimize the systems in place, and build better, more resilient systems for the years ahead. Build your skills and expand your understanding with these AU 2024 sessions.
Sessions for drainage designers
Navigating Stormwater: How VHB Overcame Drainage Challenges Using InfoDrainage
VHB‘s Jenna Woyner and Jess Ewing join Samer Muhandes to explore the pitfalls of designing drainage systems with isolated drainage design tools and spreadsheets—but also wins from using InfoDrainage.
InfoDrainage for Transportation Projects: From Concept to Detailed Design
Matthew Piggott, Ryan Brown, and Youssef Al Fahham present a streamlined workflow with InfoDrainage and Civil 3D that facilitates the interaction and data exchange between both software solutions, with a special emphasis on drainage for transportation projects. They also show off the ML Deluge feature’s AI power.
Simulation 101: Creating Catchments in Civil 3D to Simulate Hydrology in InfoDrainage
Consultant Kenneth L. Driscol Sr. shows Civil 3D users how to up their drainage game using some handy integrations that bring all your data into InfoDrainage. From there, use its more extensive runoff routing methods and rainfall generation tools to simulate hydrology and accurately size up your drainage network.
Explore more classes for drainage designers on the Autodesk Water blog.
Session on hydraulic modeling
Integration of BIM and Hydraulic Modeling into a Single Workflow
The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS Pro). Paulo Macedo covers network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.
Using Sensor Data to Drive Dynamic Hydraulic Models in InfoWater Pro with Info360 Insight
In this session, Nathan Gerdts, Adyen Baren, and Shawn Huang equip you with practical skills and tools to facilitate the integration of sensor data and analytics into InfoWater Pro water distribution models using Info360 Insight. Dynamically coupling hydraulic models with sensor data is a smart but often under-explored strategy, and it’s a key aspect in deploying a digital twin. They discuss the data types suitable for hydraulic models, the preprocessing steps required, and various integration strategies, such as the automatic scaling of customer demands to meet forecasts.
Climate Resilience and Urban Sustainability: The Need for City-Wide Stormwater Models
Traditional methods for managing stormwater have clearly shown their limitations. The conventional focus on site-specific solutions, while essential, does not fully account for the complex, interconnected nature of urban water systems. Mel Meng and ISG’s Jacob Rischmiller will show you a comprehensive, city-wide approach to stormwater modeling as a more adaptive and effective solution.
Explore more AU 2024 session on hydraulic modeling on the Autodesk Water blog.
Learn more about the possibilities for digitizing processes for water management on the Civil Infrastructure page of the AU website.