Cities and towns often rely on local consultants to provide them with water, wastewater, and stormwater modeling. By bringing modeling efforts in house, municipalities can benefit from:
Saving Money
Often, even the smallest projects can come with a hefty price tag. By using in-house professionals, municipalities can save the money typically spent on consulting and use it toward capital improvements.
Improved Reactions to Emergency Situations
When a city handles its own model and has an in-house expert, they can more efficiently respond to emergency situations without having to wait for consultant analysis. This situation also holds true for leak detections, helping to reduce lost water.
Model Consistency
Many municipalities have a bunch of smaller, separated models. By combining these smaller models into one large model, the entire system can be analyzed. This combined model also creates a baseline for expectations of how modeling can be done in the municipality.
System Efficiency
As municipalities begin to explore capital improvements, they can leverage their system model to determine the most cost-effective path forward.
From an operational standpoint, cities can also ensure they are making the most of their system.
Getting up and running with new software is less daunting than a city or town may think! With OpenFlows Water and OpenFlows Sewer, municipalities can ease into modeling their water and sewer systems very quickly. The applications help the process through:
Free Training
Support is the heart of using Bentley software. Virtuosity subscriptions have free personalized training–already included in the price! When you partner this training with endless videos, blogs, and Bentley’s tech support, modelers are set up for success.
Low Costs
The cost of our licensing is often much less than consistently paying consultants to do the work.
Easy-to-use Interfaces
With the OpenFlows interface, learning and navigating the software is intuitive, lessening the learning curve.
Leveraging Existing Data
Existing data such as shapefiles, databases, and CAD drawings can be imported directly into OpenFlows Water and OpenFlows Sewer through a few simple clicks.
This capability makes building models incredibly easy while still utilizing all the data available to the municipality.
