Broomfield, Colorado USA, August 15, 2007 — In its ongoing quest to equip the global wastewater industry with the world’s most comprehensive and innovative GIS-centric modeling and design solutions, MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, today announced the worldwide availability of the V6 Generation of its industry-leading InfoSWMM for ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA).
The new version delivers an intuitive, time-saving user interface as well as impressive graphics; greatly accelerates creation of better, more accurate models; and includes more advanced design analysis capabilities than any other wastewater modeling software. The release marks the most significant milestone to date in the evolution of the company’s flagship urban drainage modeling and design product, firmly establishing it as the number one choice for the effective evaluation, design, management, rehabilitation and operation of wastewater and stormwater collection systems.
The world’s first and only urban drainage modeling solution certified by the National Association of GIS-Centric Software (NAGCS), the full-featured InfoSWMM urban drainage network analysis and design program delivers the highest rate of return in the industry. All operations of a typical sewer system — from analysis and design to management functions such as water quality assessment, pollution prediction, urban flooding, real-time control and record keeping — are addressed in a single, fully integrated geoengineering environment. Its powerful hydraulic computational engine is endorsed by the USEPA and certified by FEMA.
The program offers users unprecedented power in managing urban runoff and wet weather water quality problems in combined, sanitary and storm sewers; optimizing BMP and LID designs; and meeting SSO and CSO regulations. Highly sophisticated Real-Time Control (RTC) schemes optimize the operational management of wastewater systems and hydraulic structures, while unparalleled performance modeling sets new benchmarks in scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility within the powerful ArcGIS environment.
Underlining MWH Soft’s leadership in the wastewater industry, InfoSWMM reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering pioneering technology that raises the bar for urban drainage network modeling standards, helping to shape the future of this critical sector. Focused on expanded geospatial functions and performance, V6 features a host of unique new capabilities to help wastewater engineers and planners develop better designs and operational improvements faster and more efficiently.
“Speed, ease of use, and power are the words that best describe InfoSWMM V6,” said Youssif Hussein, PE, Project Manager for CDM in Walnut Creek, CA, and a leading wastewater modeler. “The new version represents a significant leap forward. Not only does it include all the many new features and enhancements I’ve suggested, but it includes many more useful new capabilities and performance improvements that make my modeling work easier and more efficient.”
The new version embodies more than one hundred customer-requested enhancements and new features, plus significant innovations that break new ground in geoengineering productivity and efficiency. Key additional modeling tools include a new option that allows a run to ignore any flow routing and only compute runoff; a new type of pump, an Ideal Pump, which pumps at a rate equal to the inflow to its inlet node without a pump curve; and a new conduit shape that allows users to define their own cross-sectional geometry for closed conduits. For circular pipes under pressurized flow, the user can now select between the Hazen-Williams, Darcy-Weisbach (Colebrook-White) or Manning equation.
Pump startup and shutoff inlet node depths can now be supplied directly as part of a pump’s properties rather than as part of a control rule. Orifices can now have timed gate openings and closings. An initial abstraction loss can now be associated with Unit Hydrographs used for RDII inflows. A new criterion was added to determine when a conduit has supercritical flow (based on both water surface slope and Froude number), indicating that normal flow conditions might apply. Node volumes are now initialized to take account of any initial ponding implied by the node depth. To comply more closely with standard hydraulic practice, the head across an orifice is now computed with respect to the midpoint of its opening, rather than to the bottom; orifices, like weirs, are now treated as not contributing surface area to their end nodes.
The software’s powerful new graphical and tabular reporting capabilities include the automatic ability to visualize water level temporal variation in the channels, generate vivid profile plots between any two user-selected nodes, compute storage curve from digital elevation data, and correct shared boundaries of adjacent polygons. These capabilities also allow the use of upstream and downstream conduit inverts instead of offsets, and rim elevation instead of maximum depth for junctions. The software is also able to generate more complete tabular results, statistics reports, and summary tables for all network components.
InfoSWMM is quickly becoming the must-have solution for comprehensive enterprise-wide geospatial urban drainage and sewer systems engineering. With an intuitive working environment and new cutting-edge features and improvements, Generation V6 delivers unmatched capabilities to the wastewater industry, backed by unparalleled technical support. “Users are continuously demanding more from their sewer modeling and design software, and MWH Soft has again answered the call with InfoSWMM V6, the most significant release ever in terms of usability and performance,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating Officer of MWH Soft. “We’ve listened very closely to our customers and invested significantly in coming up with this major evolutionary release — the pinnacle in a series of product innovations that have set InfoSWMM apart from competitors’ products. V6 underlines our company’s resolute commitment not only to providing our customers with the industry’s most advanced and comprehensive urban drainage modeling solution, but to back it with consistent state-of-the-art development, innovation and support. We are thrilled to make this one-of-a-kind product available to the extended urban drainage modeling community.”
“The market success of InfoSWMM is a direct result of our effort to respond to customer needs and raise the standard for mainstream geocentric urban drainage modeling and design,” said Trent Schade, PE, Senior Client Service Manager for MWH Soft and a leading urban drainage modeling expert. “V6 is the most significantInfoSWMM release ever, unparalleled in helping engineers analyze and optimize their systems better, faster, and more affordably. Its seamless integration with ArcGIS; ability to simulate both dry-weather and wet-weather flows; and power to quickly and reliably optimize system rehabilitation, design and operation make fast and easy work of even the most sophisticated and challenging urban drainage system analysis. Because these advantages can be enjoyed regardless of users’ technical expertise, its benefits can be extended across the entire enterprise.”
Pricing and availability
Upgrade to InfoSWMM V6 is now available worldwide by subscription to the Gold or Platinum program. Subscription members can immediately download the new version free of charge directly fromwww.mwhsoft.com. The MWH Soft Subscription Program is a friendly customer support and software maintenance program that ensures the longevity and usefulness of MWH Soft products. It gives subscribers instant access to new functionality as it is developed, along with automatic software updates and upgrades. For the latest information on the MWH Soft Subscription Program, visit www.mwhsoft.com or contact your local MWH Soft Certified Representative.
About MWH Soft
MWH Soft is a leading global provider of technical and infrastructure software and professional solutions designed to meet the technological needs of utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest North American cities and ENR top design firms. The multifaceted, state-of-the-art CAD and GIS enabled products created by MWH Soft empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively manage, design, build, operate, maintain and secure highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. For more information, call MWH Soft at (626) 568-6868, or visitwww.mwhsoft.com.
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