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“A company thrives and continues to excel when it maintains a solid integration of their people, their processes, and their products. Aquanuity excels with this approach and especially when they carefully select their employees and implement highly intuitive processes for developing and continuously enhancing their high-quality products. . . Our firm highly relies on AquaTwin products including AT Water, AT Sewer, and AT Asset for developing smart utility plans for system renewals and replacements, orderly expansions, and fiscal planning and budgeting. We love the fact that Aquanuity staff are always very quick at integrating new state-of-the art features that enhance our efficiency and address upcoming regulations. We love Aquanuity’s people, their processes, and their products!.” –Tony Akel, President, Akel Engineering Group, Inc.
Utility agencies are tasked with managing and maintaining a complex system of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. Many spend their time reactively, responding to daily issues and fixing broken pipes or addressing other emergencies. Akel Engineering Group provides water utilities with a proactive approach to get ahead of potentially failing infrastructure through the development of a Renewal and Replacement (R&R) plan to mitigate potential pipeline failures and to provide sustainable financial planning for their water infrastructure.
Water Utilities reach out to Akel Engineering with their key concerns: how to develop a financially sustainable and defensible plan for their wet infrastructure with prioritized pipeline improvements to address capacity or pipeline replacements to address condition.
Water utilities have limited annual budgets and they often have to make difficult financial decisions when dealing with unexpected budget cuts. Regardless, they are expected to maintain the wet infrastructure in good operating condition and providing an adequate level of service. The consequences for not having renewal and replacement plans include potential collapses of the aging pipelines, and resulting with very expensive fixes and undesired press.
Akel Engineering helps water agencies develop smart infrastructure plans that prioritize improvements based on either pipeline capacity urgency or pipeline condition urgency. These master plans and Renewal and Replacement (R&R) plans provide suggested 5-year and 20-year defensible financial expenditure plans for budgeting purposes.
Water utilities are managing a high volume of data. In order to identify key issues, such as bottlenecks in the water or sewer system or weakness in the condition of the pipes, it is necessary to examine the entire system. An analytical approach helps to pinpoint the most important issues and show the path ahead. Water utilities also need a defensible, data-based approach to prioritize and justify their upcoming maintenance and pipe replacement projects.
Akel Engineering uses the full range of AquaTwin products to evaluate the capacity and condition of the existing wet infrastructure. Their team works to prep, validate, and check the data and the intense analytics take place in the background. Akel Engineering ensures that the data is connected accurately and uses AquaTwin tools to develop solutions. Their final model distinguishes between expansion improvements and replacement improvements and includes a prioritized plan. AquaTwin tools, which provide thorough documentation of the data-driven effort and recommendations, are often transferred to client agencies for future updates.
Transparency and data-based decision making are very important to water utilities, since their financial investments directly impact customers’ monthly utility bills. Aquanuity provides the data-backed solution that shows needed financial investments and their relative priority. Akel Engineering leverages the full portfolio of AquaTwin products to fully understand the existing infrastructure and build a long-term, financially sustainable plan for the management and maintenance of wet infrastructure.
As a case study, Akel engineering Group is currently completing a project for the City of Fresno, CA (population 545,000), and by developing a sewer system master plan and a renewal and replacement plan. This project includes the following elements:
6400 S Fiddlers Green Circle, #820
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-4994