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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Streamlining the Delivery of a $2.5 Billion Water Infrastructure Project Portfolio Using Autodesk Construction Cloud
Australia, one of the driest continents, faces critical water challenges. The country now looks beyond its dams to desalination plants and recycled water treatment to address this. However, constructing desalination plants traditionally consumes high energy and impacts the environment. This session focuses on how John Holland, an Australian contractor, successfully streamlined its major water infrastructure projects valued at $2.5 billion by implementing a common data environment hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud. The firm replaced traditional tasks performed using desktop products—such as clash detection, information management, and design reviews—resulting in significant cost and time savings and improved efficiency across the project lifecycle, benefiting all stakeholders. We will share how we drive sustainability results by using building information modeling (BIM) to optimize recycled materials and reduce carbon footprint, ensuring the potential for environmentally friendly practices within the water infrastructure sector.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Using Autodesk Construction Cloud and Cadac Control for Water Authority Drents Overijsselse Delta
Every asset owner wants to be in control of their assets and associated data. But how can we ensure that is data is up to date and correct so that it accurately translates to the correct information? How do we cope with changes, and can we ensure that the contractor or engineering firm receives the correct information? Additionally, there's a growing demand to make the data accessible and user-friendly in relation to geography. The Water Authority Drents Overijsselse Delta has made some changes to cope with this challenge. To create an accessible environment, it plots its assets on geographic information system (GIS) layers using ArcGIS GeoBIM. Additionally, the Water Authority wants to ensure that all its existing and new assets are being monitored correctly and are reliable according to national and organizational requirements. To achieve this goal, it's using the power of Autodesk Construction Cloud in combination with Cadac Control and Model Coordination.
2p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
AECO Roadmap: Water
Water is essential infrastructure—and designing, modeling, and managing it requires purpose-built tools. In this session, Autodesk product and strategy leaders will share what’s new and what’s next for our water-focused solutions, with a spotlight on how we’re supporting civil engineers and utilities in planning and maintaining water systems. From early-stage design to lifecycle management, get an inside look at how our roadmap is evolving to improve performance, collaboration, and resilience in water infrastructure projects. You'll also see early demos of in-development capabilities and have the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the team.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Flushing the Giants: InfoWater Pro in Large Water-Main Cleaning
Flushing large-diameter transmission water mains is a critical yet complex step in maintaining water quality. This session will highlight how InfoWater Pro was used to plan the flushing of more than six miles of 36-inch pipe by modeling hydraulic conditions, reversing flow direction, and optimizing valve and tank operations. You’ll learn about modeling guided decision making to increase flow rates for scouring while avoiding disruptions to customer service. Through a focused case study, this session will illustrate how to integrate hydraulic modeling and operational strategy to support effective large-main flushing.
37p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Weathering the Heat: Challenges and Adaptations for Water Utilities in a Warming World
During this session, you’ll learn about the various ways that extreme heat impacts water utilities, from decreased water supply and infrastructure challenges to worker safety concerns and increased costs of service delivery. We’ll explore the potential scale of these impacts and the varying ways that different locations are likely to be impacted. The presenters will then share several strategies for mitigating the impact of extreme heat, including optimized system modeling, predictive analytics, policy updates, and stakeholder outreach. By planning today for a future that is likely to be hotter than the past, we can create more-resilient communities that are ready to take on the heat.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Empowering OC San's Sewer Asset Management with Info360 Asset

Orange County Sanitation District (OC San) is a public agency responsible for collecting, treating, and safely disposing of wastewater and its residuals for 2.6 million residents and businesses in Orange County, California. OC San operates and maintains two large treatment plants, 15 pumping stations, and about 390 miles of sewer with 4,500 manholes. OC San faces the challenge of fixing aging infrastructure with increasingly limited resources. In 2023, OC San contracted Autodesk to help them implement Info360 Asset software with the goals of standardizing CCTV inspection data collection and management, and enabling the development of risk models for sewer assets in the collections system. In this presentation, OC San will showcase the use of Info360 Asset to manage and analyze the volumes of geographic information system (GIS) and CCTV inspection data to best prioritize the riskiest assets.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Mastering Catchment Creation in Civil 3D for Powerful Hydrology Simulations in InfoDrainage (New Game-Changing Features)
This session will walk through how catchments or watersheds can be automatically generated using a surface model and assigned to drainage networks as part of a concept design in Civil 3D software. Ultimately, with the InfoDrainage/Civil 3D integration tool, we’ll see how we can bring all the data across to InfoDrainage and use its more extensive runoff routing methods and rainfall generation tools to set up and simulate hydrology and accurately size up the drainage network.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Doubling a Capital investment Program to $3 Billion: How the @One Alliance Has Changed Gear Within the UK Water Sector

The @one Alliance has delivered more than $1.5 billion in projects throughout the past five years, but is now fast approaching a $3 billion program. Hear about our challenges, successes, and mistakes, and how we're overcoming them through the application of new technology, innovation, and change in the team culture.

42p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Get Vertical: From Network to Plant, Maximize the Potential of InfoWorks ICM Software in Wastewater Management
The Trinity River Authority of Texas adopts a comprehensive wastewater management approach by seamlessly integrating InfoWorks ICM software with both network and plant model representations. This unique strategy enables the evaluation of more-holistic solutions, setting a new standard in the industry. Using the Optimizer software from Autodesk Partner Optimatics, the authority evaluates diverse infrastructure alternatives to optimize conveyance and treatment solutions. Focused on minimizing peak flows to the wastewater treatment plant, this approach assesses a range of strategies, including storage facilities, real-time control mechanisms, pumping options, and other alternatives. Furthermore, the Trinity River Authority automates the hydraulic model verification process using InfoWorks ICM and Optimizer, eliminating previous manual inefficiencies. This automation enhances accuracy and efficiency, ensuring the reliability of the hydraulic model and providing a robust foundation for future projects.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Info360 Asset Data-Driven Sewer Planning: Aqua America's Integrated Planning for Sewer Systems
Aqua America is a large water and sewer utility serving eight U.S. states. The utility faces the challenge of efficiently maximizing the management of aging infrastructure in more than 50 wastewater systems in Pennsylvania alone. In 2023, Aqua contracted GHD to implement a Consolidated Planning Level Sewer Program in Pennsylvania, addressing dispersed data sources of condition assessment data and best practices for capital improvement planning at the state, regional, and local levels. This presentation will address the obstacles encountered during the project, and showcase the integration of the Autodesk Info360 Asset and Esri ArcGIS Online cloud platforms to help Aqua efficiently manage significant volumes of closed-circuit TV (CCTV) inspection and other condition assessment data—along with tools to prioritize the riskiest assets, identify projected rehabilitation approaches, and establish capital improvement budgets.
18p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Using Sensor Data to Drive Dynamic Hydraulic Models in InfoWater Pro with Info360 Insight
In this session, we'll equip attendees with practical skills and tools to facilitate the integration of sensor data and analytics into InfoWater Pro software's water distribution models using Info360 Insight software. Our primary focus will be the underexplored strategy of dynamically coupling hydraulic models with sensor data, a key aspect in deploying digital twins. These connected models have the potential to save utilities substantial resources through improved operational decision making. We'll 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. The aim is to provide a thorough understanding of digital twins' application in hydraulic modeling, offering attendees valuable insights into this intricate domain.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Climate Resilience and Urban Sustainability: The Need for City-Wide Stormwater Models
As the world grapples with the realities of climate change and rapid population growth, our traditional methods for managing stormwater have 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. This session will introduce a comprehensive, city-wide approach to stormwater modeling as a more adaptive and effective solution to these contemporary challenges.
42p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Revolutionizing the Maintenance of Water Infrastructure: An Innovative Collaboration with Northumbrian Water Group
In this cross-industry collaboration between Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) and the Autodesk Technology Centre in Birmingham, England, we're solving the challenges NWG has maintaining water infrastructure. By employing advanced manufacturing techniques—such as laser scanning, reverse engineering, and hybrid manufacturing—NWG can work with its supply chain to repair broken parts and extend the operating lives of the assets they maintain. NWG is responsible for many assets that were manufactured decades ago, and the original design data is no longer available, causing excessively long lead times for replacement parts. As a result, the downtime for key national infrastructure water systems is prolonged and costly. We will show how this important collaboration between the water and manufacturing industries will reduce the downtime and extend product life, improving NWG's resilience, and ultimately saving money for customers.
42p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Unlocking Digital Transformation in Water Infrastructure
The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change as it faces a $1 trillion global risk of damaging flooding and water shortages that could impact 5 billion people by 2050. It's estimated that 60% of global water utilities will be forced to undergo digital transformation of their infrastructure to adapt to growing risks and meet sustainability demands. Join the Autodesk water team as we explore how digital transformation is reshaping the way the world manages water and water infrastructure. Through the lens of Autodesk's desktop hydraulic modeling products—InfoWorks ICM, InfoDrainage, InfoWater Pro, and InfoWorks WS Pro—we'll explore practical examples of how rapidly advancing digital technology is helping transform the workflows of industry stakeholders, including utilities, consultants, engineers, water modelers, and others.
48p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Identifying Critical Water Infrastructure for Strategic Resilience and Risk Planning with InfoWorks WS Pro and Info360 Asset
Aging infrastructure combined with limited funding and tightening regulations are causing great stress on water networks. Water assets are considered critical based on their likelihood and consequence of failure. The consequence of a critical pipe failure could lead to outages, severely disrupting daily activities and access to drinking water—in addition to the financial implications associated with property damage, road closures, and manufacturing disruptions. The path toward mitigating such risk starts with hydraulic modeling in conjunction with sound asset-management practices built into Info360 Asset software. In this session, we'll showcase InfoWorks WS Pro software's critical link analysis to automate criticality simulations, where areas of the network are isolated, and the corresponding level of service impacts are reported. Next, we'll make this data available in Info360 Asset to perform risk analysis, develop rehabilitation decision trees, and ultimately prioritize capital spending.
9p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Design, Analyze, Repeat: How to Improve Civil 3D Workflows with InfoDrainage
Come see how Civil 3D software and InfoDrainage integrate to design and optimize your drainage design on any site. We will start off with a story of how Kimley-Horn, the Civil 3D team, and the InfoDrainage team worked together to solve some of the most-complex challenges we all face during design. For instance, we will show you the vast improvements we've made, including new Civil 3D objects, interoperability with Civil 3D, clash detection, and the enormous improvements with flexible reporting. In this session, we'll explore how InfoDrainage transforms drainage design workflows and optimizes stormwater management. Attendees will learn to integrate InfoDrainage into project workflows, enhancing collaboration and streamlining processes. Our expertise will guide participants in using InfoDrainage for time-saving Civil 3D interoperability, cost reduction via design logic switching, improved outcomes with clash detection, and compliance assurance through design auditing and reporting.
28p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Navigating Drainage Design: A Flood of Solutions with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage
Join us for an in-depth technical instruction session as we guide you through the entire process of a drainage design project, from preproject planning to detailed design. Harnessing the power of legacy architecture, engineering, and construction tools (InfraWorks and Civil 3D software) as well as the newer tools and InfoDrainage, we'll demonstrate seamless interoperability and connectivity to streamline your workflow. We'll focus on the catchment automation aspects of InfraWorks and Civil 3D. Then, we'll shift to how Civil 3D and InfoDrainage can be used to complete the drainage design even as these subcatchments change as the project progresses. You'll learn practical techniques and best practices for using this interoperability to its fullest potential. By connecting the design-and-make process from end to end, we're advancing practices in the field of drainage design. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your skills and revolutionize your approach to drainage projects with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage.
34p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Building in the Clouds: Uncovering the Transformative Power of Custom-Made, Cloud-Based Tools Through the Asset Generator
Discover the transformative power of cloud technologies in the water, building, and infrastructure sectors. To address complex challenges and advanced visualization needs, Arcadis has developed the Asset Generator. This innovative cloud-based tool automates the creation of Revit models, and facilitates master planning in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. Within four months of its release, it has led to 49% time saved on project planning and visualization activities. In this session, we'll explore how integrating Autodesk Platform Services and APIs, Esri's ArcGIS, and Microsoft Azure can improve project workflows and enhance building information modeling (BIM) practices. You'll gain insights into selecting and customizing digital tools to simplify and democratize technology access in industries that may be resistant to digital adoption. Join this class to uncover how embracing these technologies can empower teams, increase efficiency, enhance collaboration, and ultimately revolutionize project design and management.
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Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Get the Most from Your Point Cloud: Automated Feature Extraction
In this session, we'll walk through an end-to-end cloud-centered workflow on using large point-cloud data for detailed design using ReCap Pro software and the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We will share simple tools to prepare surfaces, intelligently decimate large point-cloud data, publish to Autodesk Construction Cloud, and collaboratively extract design elements (like curbs, gutters, median, walls, ADA ramps, driveways, and drainage breaklines) and assets via browser and take them into detailed design technology like Civil 3D software to generate highly accurate surface models. Users can also publish the extracted features and assets to ArcGIS to use the information across the organization. This is a workflow the point cloud industry has been wanting for decades!
17p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
InfoDrainage for Transportation Projects: From Concept to Detailed Design
In this session, we'll explore the intricacies of drainage design workflows for transportation projects, including rail, roads, and highways. Using Autodesk's InfoDrainage and Civil 3D software, we'll present a streamlined workflow that facilitates the interaction and data exchange between both software solutions, with a special emphasis on drainage for transportation-related projects. One of the key learnings will be spotlighting the data exchange and results migration capabilities between civil design software (Civil 3D) and drainage design software (InfoDrainage), without the interjection of spreadsheets. Additionally, we'll highlight InfoDrainage software's machine learning (ML) deluge feature, with emphasis on its potential to expedite the concept and early planning process by rapidly identifying ponding locations on a site. Testing data showed the ML deluge outperforming traditional deluge by identifying ponding on a site in four seconds compared to more than nine minutes.
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