Drainage design

  • Integrated highway design with the Civil 3D + InfoDrainage end-to-end workflow

    Transportation infrastructure like highways and roadways remains a vital component of modern engineering work, but – as any highway designer knows – with it comes a series of rigid guidelines for drainage and regulatory compliance. Autodesk has long been helping engineers and designers build better highways, and part of that mission is delivering drainage design…

    Drainage design

  • The path to digital transformation in water infrastructure is becoming more clear

    The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change, which will only speed up as the climate shifts. GHD research estimates that droughts, floods and storms could wipe $5.6 trillion from the GDP of world’s top economies by 2050. Are we prepared as an industry for the challenges that are unfolding? Way back in…

    Sustainability

  • Can you use InfoDrainage? What to do when an official drainage design manual doesn’t specify.

    InfoDrainage, our comprehensive site-scale drainage design and analysis software, was just approved for use in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina’s Stormwater Design Manual. Huzzah! This manual joins a growing list of approving authorities recognizing the capabilities of InfoDrainage and explicitly approving it for use on projects in their region. This begs the question: Can…

    Hydraulic modeling

  • All of the free drainage design learning content available for InfoDrainage

    As sustainable and accurate drainage design becomes more important in today’s world of rising sea levels and extreme weather events, now is the time to train your design and hydraulic modeling teams on how to use the latest in drainage design software. Our team of experts at Autodesk have compiled a comprehensive learning course and…

    Drainage design

  • AMP8 opportunities: Biodiversity Net Gain requirements will give SuDS a big boost

    One of the most important things UK water regulator Ofwat wants to see water companies use AMP8 funding to achieve is elevating the importance of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). We wrote about it in our latest white paper ‘AMP8’s unprecedented opportunities’, part of which we’re excerpting here. A change that makes society better is one…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Harnessing the power of InfoDrainage in Canada: regional and customizable settings

    As urban areas continue to expand and our drainage infrastructure continues to be pushed to the limits, managing stormwater and urban drainage with old methods has become untenable. This isn’t just a regional problem, but a global one. Our teams often get asked, “Does InfoDrainage work in my country/region?” Generally speaking, the answer is going…

    Drainage design

  • InfoDrainage simplifies offering, streamlines hydraulic modeling offering for site drainage design

    Today, August 7th, InfoDrainage Standard and InfoDrainage Ultimate are collapsing into one offering – InfoDrainage – delivering superior drainage design and hydraulic analysis capabilities to users in one product. This change means that now all users will have access to our highly-regarded Civil 3D integration, clash detection functionality, and 2D exceedance analysis tools. Drainage designers,…

    Product news

  • FHWA Culvert Analysis and enhanced flexible reporting in InfoDrainage 2025.2

    InfoDrainage 2025.2 is here and with it comes culvert analysis functionality, enhanced flexible reporting capabilities, and speed and simulation improvements. Our team of developers and product leaders have been hard at work not only developing the next generation of drainage design software, InfoDrainage, but also understanding what drainage designers around the world need in their…

    Drainage design

  • Dredging up the past at the University Lakes of Baton Rouge to build a better future

    We’ve been publishing lots of customer stories in the last few years, and we have a steady stream of new ones in the works, but every once in awhile we see a customer story from one of our partners that we want to call out for its good work. This past week, we saw that…

    Drainage design

  • Everything new in Autodesk’s desktop hydraulic modeling software 2025 releases

    The latest 2025 releases of all of our desktop hydraulic modeling solutions are out, and with them, there are a ton of new features waiting to help you in your workflows and processes. The Autodesk Water team has been hard at work developing solutions to real-world challenges you face in your day-to-day work and implementing…

    Storm, sewer, flood