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Water Distribution

WaterGEMS Provides Salt Lake City with Improved Fire Flow Planning
Pipelines in some areas of the city had fallen behind current fire flow service requirements, and customers complained about low pressure during periods of peak demand. WaterGEMS was used to determine which pipes were the best candidates for replacement to satisfy fire flow constraints.

WaterCAD and MicroStation Help M&S Engineering Save Design Time on Water Treatment Plant Expansion
Learn how M&S Engineering's engineers developed a sustainable solution to double the capacity of an existing surface water treatment plant while decreasing the burden on the region’s fragile groundwater resources.

Hatch Mott MacDonald Improves Water Flow for City of Newark Using WaterGEMS
Read how WaterGEMS helped Hatch Mott MacDonald save the City of Newark hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in pumping costs, while providing adequate flow and pressure for domestic water demand and fire protection purposes.

Westernport Water Uses WaterGEMS to Achieve Automated Distribution System
This project describes how WaterGEMS and its SCADAConnect module helped Westernport Water deliver cost savings in the operation and management of more than $43 million in water assets.

WaterGEMS Helps Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority Deliver a Sustainable Water Supply
The objective of this project is to improve the water distribution system’s efficiency to enable the supply of water continuously and in a sustainable manner. Read how Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority achieved reduced water loss and a dramatically improved customer rating of 98%.

United Water Adopts Innovative Modeling Processes to Improve Water System Management
United Water and IDModeling standardize water model building and analysis using Bentley’s water software. To focus on improving efficiency in its water networks, United Water worked with IDModeling, a company that delivers hydraulic modeling solutions.

WaterGEMS Plays Key Role in Reducing Non-Revenue Water for Metro Manila East Zone
To ensure the reliability and sustainability of the water network and expand the supply of water to the Rizal provinces, Manila Water Company, Inc. used WaterGEMS to create a water network simulation model and reduce non-revenue water.

City Expands Water Supply Without Deploying Additional Water Sources
M&S Engineering used WaterCAD to expand City of Fair Oaks Ranch’s water supply while helping to safeguard limited ground water sources. After quickly but thoroughly evaluating a large number of options, M&S Engineering provided the city with a cost-effective solution and was also able to sketch out a four-phase capital improvement program.

Crisis Management of Water Supply Systems
The use of Bentley Water and WaterGEMS helped MJP quickly re-engineer Mumbai Metropolitan Area’s pipe network, which helped safeguard the public health of 17 million people.

Maintaining Fire Fighting Capacity While Managing Pressure to Reduce Leakage at Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water used WaterGEMS to implement two potentially conflicting strategies (WSSS CI program and pressure and the Leakage Management program).

WaterGEMS Powers Design of Breakthrough 24-by-7 Water System in India
Technical innovation showcased as inspiration for water utilities in developing economies. Supplying potable water to dense populations in developing countries is a perpetually daunting task for water utilities.

Manila Water Improves the Reliability and Efficiency of the Antipolo Water Supply System
The people of Antipolo can now enjoy clean and potable water 24x7. In order to optimize the Antipolo Water Supply System, Manila Water’s plan was to evaluate the steady state and transient hydraulics of the preferred pipeline, pump station, and reservoir combination as well as improve the reliability and efficiency of the network.

Skeletonization of Water Distribution Model Allows Toronto to Save More Than One Million Dollars
Skeletonization of water distribution model allows the city to comply with two different departments' model requirements for major cost savings. The City of Toronto operates and maintains an extensive water network that includes more than 3,500 miles of water mains.

GMI SA Ingenieros Consultores Saves $50,000 in Water System Design Costs
The objective of this project was to develop the detailed engineering for a permanent freshwater supply for the new concentrator process. GMI had to prove it could decrease the number of man-hours usually budgeted to create drawings, calculations, and other project documents. To ensure its efficiency, GMI turned to new technologies, primarily HAMMER and Bentley AutoPIPE.

Sewer

Bahrain’s Water Garden City to Provide Sustainable Services
Scott Wilson’s engineers used SewerGEMS Sanitary, included in SewerGEMS for urban sanitary and combined sewer analysis and modeling, to design the sewerage network for this major residential commercial project. Read how they managed to cut sewer network design time by up to 40%.

SewerGEMS Helps Stearns & Wheler GHD Reduce Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO)
Stearns & Wheler GHD addressed overflows due to excessive rainfall-derived inflow and infiltration in collection system, in Allegany County, MD. Stearns & Wheler GHD used SewerGEMS to evaluate options to improve system and manage capital cost of recommended improvements.

More Than $800,000 Savings Achieved on the MacDonald Avenue Sanitary Sewer Line Upgrade Project
Swinerton Management and Consulting used SewerCAD to upgrade the Richmond sanitary sewer system to reduce sewer overflows. Swinerton will also use SewerGEMS for future work for the City of Richmond.

Navi Mumbai Deploys Bentley Software to Meet Demand for Public Services
NMMC undertook a $411 million planning initiative to improve and augment the city infrastructure and provide a sustainable environment for its 2.8 million citizens. The base map with existing assets and utilities was prepared in MicroStation, and SewerCAD, WaterGEMS, and HAMMER were used for system design and cost estimation.

Stormwater

CIDCO Facilitates Design of New Stormwater Systems With CivilStorm
Learn how City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) analyzed complex stormwater systems with holding ponds below high tide levels, to ensure proper drainage of the Dronagiri archipelago, in Navi Mumbai.

Site Analysis and Design, Master Planning, and Construction for the Expansion of BMW’s North American Headquarters South Campus
PS&S deployed Bentley's StormCAD and WaterCAD modeling software to design BMW’s U.S. headquarters expansion.The project included the design of a very extensive and innovative stormwater management plan to meet NJDEP Stormwater II regulations.

KASL Engineering Quickly Delivers Up-to-Date, Accurate Site Plans
Read how CivilStorm and InRoads helped KASL Engineering prepare site/civil design for Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Fire Station No. 29. This project achieved sustainable stormwater management to limit runoff from the fire station.

Bentley’s Stormwater Modeling Helps Paulus, Sokolowski, & Sartor, LLC Design Thunderbolt Raceway Motorsports Park’s Stormwater Systems
The project objective was to provide a park-like setting geared to family entertainment and broad-based motorsports education. Challenges included the proper sizing of six infiltration basins without impacting the race track, the piping of a very large open drainage ditch, and meeting regulatory conditions from the FAA and NJDEP.

Water Treatment

Water treatment projects, submitted to the 2009 BE Inspired awards (3.69 MB)

High-Capacity Wastewater Treatment Facility Reclaims Water Resources
The growing area of Okaloosa County was in critical need for increased wastewater treatment capacity. The county’s Garniers treatment plant was more than 30 years old, treated only 6.5 million gallons of water per day, and was close to a school and residential area. Okaloosa County teamed with CDM to design and build a new, state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility.

Water Treatment Plant Expansion Eases Pressure on Water Supply
The Walsh Group used Bentley's BIM applications to expand the Scottsdale Central Arizona Project (CAP) water treatment plant in order to ensure the long-term availability of safe and abundant drinking water.

Re-Engineered Water Intakes at Round Butte Dam Protect Native Fish
CH2M Hill used Bentley products (including MicroStation and Structural Modeler, formerly Bentley Structural) to update the Round Butte Dam by designing and constructing a structure that encourages fish populations to thrive, guaranteeing that fish species will flourish for generations to come.

Project Team Collaboration and Engineering Content Management

United Utilities Improves Project Control, Increases Efficiency, and Cuts Costs
ProjectWise Geospatial Management is used by both United Utilities and its contractors to provide enterprise access to all engineering documentation, potentially saving millions of pounds over the next five-year Asset Management Plan (AMP).

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Deploys Bentley’s ProjectWise to Improve Team Collaboration
Read how ProjectWise helped Welsh Water manage the information (about 22,000 documents) from a 36,000-kilometer sewer network.