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2025 NZ Modelling Symposium

Water New Zealand’s 2025 Modelling Symposium was held in Hamilton New Zealand on the 18th and 19th of March 2025. It was a very well organised and successful event and Urban Water Solutions was delighted to have 3 staff in attendance and 2 podium presentations.

Session 1 in the “Modelling and data analytics stream”, was opened by UWS Professional Engineer, Christian Calabro. Christian presented a case study titled “Improved Modelling of Sewage Pumping Stations in Manifolded Systems.” Christian’s presentation documented how the use of pressure loggers on rising mains helped with the model calibration of a complex pumped system. The network contains eight individual pumping stations where each pump operates at a different flow rate depending upon the combination of other pumps active at the time. This project innovatively used pressure loggers and SPS SCADA data as an alternate to traditional flow monitoring. As the installation of pressure loggers is safer and easier than those requiring entry to the system the adoption of this methodology will allow regular calibration and update of the model as growth occurs.

Aidan Sloggett’s presentation on the second day of the symposium appeared in the “Digital” stream and was titled “Integrating Network and Wastewater Treatment Plant Modelling”. Several case studies were presented to demonstrate the need for assessing the interactions between the treatment plant (WWTP) and the sewerage network.

The first study reviewed how recirculation of wet weather flows between the WWTP’s storm basin and the sewerage network can cause significant operational issues during wet weather events.  A second example examined the benefits of modelling storm lagoons over long durations to gain a greater understanding of the availability of wet weather storage and how successive rainfall events impact the system performance. The final example looked at the hydraulic conditions at the WWTP outfall, and the impact on not only the WWTP but the influent sewerage system.

Both presentations were very well received, and our team also benefitted from the other informative presentations delivered at the symposium.

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18 Years of Urban Water Solving

Who knew that Urban Water needed solving? 18-years ago, Neil Moody did!

Urban Water Solutions has reached the milestone of 18-years of providing hydraulic modelling and network planning solutions to water authorities throughout the world.

Over the past 18-years Neil has established a team of highly experienced modellers and infrastructure planners and has recruited a team of talented young professionals who will continue to deliver quality water infrastructure solutions for future generations.

 

 

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Autodesk Authorised Training Centre

Did you know that our partner Civil Survey Solutions, who Urban Water Solutions assist with sales, support, and training for Autodesk Water Infrastructure Solutions products, is accredited as an Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC) As such, they are the only Autodesk ATC in Australia able to provide training services for Autodesk’s hydraulic modelling products. This is not to say that other training providers aren’t available, but they do not have Autodesk ATC accreditation.

Urban Water Solutions provides Civil Survey Solutions with the benefits of access to individuals with decades of experience in hydraulic modelling, and an experienced team of modellers who use the software daily to provide solutions to water infrastructure problems.

Through our partnership, we have provided in-house training to Civil Survey Solution customers in Australia and overseas.

Training can be provided in-house, online, or at one of Civil Survey Solutions’ training labs. So reach out to Ben at Civil Survey Solutions or Stephen at Urban Water Solutions to discuss your hydraulic modelling training requirements.

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Ride for Lucy

Urban Water Solutions is proud to have donated to the charity event ‘Ride for Lucy‘. This event has been created to support ‘RUN DiPG‘, a charity fighting to eradicate the most lethal childhood disease, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DiPG).

DiPG is an aggressive form of brain cancer that mostly affects young children. There is no cure for this disease and less than 10% of those affected will survive more than two years. Less than 1% will survive five years.

Please visit https://www.rideforlucy.com.au for more information about this event, and visit https://rundipg.org to find out more about DiPG.

We hope that our contribution will assist in the fight to eradicate this disease.

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Welcome Ben Caplikas to Urban Water Solutions

Urban Water Solutions has added a new engineer to our rapidly expanding (relatively speaking) workforce.

Environmental Engineer Ben Caplikas joined us in mid-September 2023 and was immediately put to work on one of the many network modelling projects that we currently have in progress.

An honors graduate from RMIT University, Ben comes to UWS with over 2-years’ of experience in contaminated land management but is rapidly finding his feet as a hydraulic modeller.