Our mission is to help water utilities plan the rehabilitation of their buried linear assets making use of their own data.
The problem
Making existing water systems sustainable and expanding them to serve a growing population will cost at least $1 trillion over the next 25 yrs.
Utilities are currently evaluating their needs and creating rehabilitation plans. They want them to be cost-efficient and reliable.
The solution!
infraPLAN makes use of the wealth of data that is routinely collected by water utilities to run their operations. We dig that data, analyze it, and turn it into cost-efficient and defensible rehabilitation plans. True pioneers, 15 years ago, we introduced to US utilities advanced approaches fresh out of research centers we contributed to. We applied them in the "real world" at dozens of US utilities for which we have run hundreds of models and simulations. That consulting experience has led us to the development of infraSOFT, a web-based platform that now greatly facilitates our projects. Testimony to our bottom up approach, we continuously enrich infraSOFT's series of practical modules to respond to the demands of our clients. We are known for offering a unique mix of rigor and practicality. We strongly believe that, more than fancy models or illustrations, data is the key to satisfactory results, and put a lot of effort at ensuring that data and data structure are up to the advanced analyses to come. Our typical approach is to accompany our clients on their first project in order to fully review the data, generate a first suite of validated results, as well as recommendations for data improvement. That first project serves to train utility staff or their consultant at using infraSOFT themselves if they choose to do so.