The following is excerpted from the recently released report “Asset Management of Force Main Infrastructure” Synthesis Report published by the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) and IWA Publishing and written by Sunil K. Sinha, Bhaskar Dasari and Berk Uslu of Virginia Tech. For more information or to access theRead More

IDModeling, Inc. has announced the deployment of Sedaru Smart Ops for real-time alerting, analysis and prediction of water system performance. This technology will enable engineers and operators to reduce water loss, energy costs and cost of operations. Sedaru, a smart water operating software, serves as a single source of dataRead More

At Bentley System’s Year in Infrastructure 2016 Conference last week in London, Bentley CEO Greg Bentley made the case in his keynote that since his company’s acquisition and assimilation of ContextCapture software in 2015, the proliferation of reality modeling across users’ projects — and across Bentley’s software portfolio — shows that it will becomeRead More

The Water Asset Management + Water Loss Conference drew nearly 100 attendees last week to the Hyatt Regency Columbus in Columbus, Ohio. The conference gathered executive-level water and wastewater utility representatives, including CEOs, general managers and superintendents, as well as municipal engineers, consultants and service providers to learn about the latest trendsRead More

By Greg Baird Sustainability in Financial Decision Making In 2009, the National Research Council called for, in concept, a national integrated framework for infrastructure asset management to develop an alignment of cost and value of infrastructure services, user rate structures, community and regional fees, and life cycle cost and financialRead More

Innovyze recently announced that its president, COO and chief innovation officer, Dr. Paul F. Boulos, has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to receive the 2016 Parcel-Sverdrup Civil Engineering Management Award. The award ceremony will be held during the Society’s Annual Convention in Portland, Ore., Sept.Read More

Trimble, working with AMERICAN Flow Control, recently introduced a free web and mobile application called AFC Mapper. The app is designed to be used with the latest version of Trimble Unity software, AMERICAN Flow Control (AFC) 2D barcodes and Esri geodatabase platforms. AFC Mapper helps water utilities automate mapping functions,Read More

How Expanding Data Applications Are Transforming Utility Asset Management As Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for water systems and its capability continues to evolve, utilities are looking beyond automated meter reads and improved billing systems. Smart metering is no longer just about metering. Today, almost every city is using “smart technology”Read More

According to the U.S. EPA, there are approximately 155,000 public drinking water systems (publicly or privately-owned) and more than 16,000 public wastewater systems in the United States. Today, these water and wastewater utilities are using technology such as geographic information systems (GIS), monitoring systems and models more than ever before to manage their systems and enhance decision making.