Join FlowWorks at NEWEA

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Craig Kipkie

FlowWorks is excited to announce our participation in the 2011 New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Annual Conference and Exhibition, January 23 – 26 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Now New England’s largest water quality conference, the event has been held annually since its formation in 1928 to create a forum for knowledge and technology exchange within the wastewater field.

FlowWorks provides a solution for public works officials and engineers inundated by flow management data. At NEWEA, our experts will demonstrate the powerful new web platform and solution for gathering, managing and understanding data.

FlowWorks Analysis Software is a powerful suite of online data collection, monitoring, analysis, and reporting tools that are considered indispensable by utilities, municipalities and consulting engineers. In fact, it was encouragement from New England-area public works officials that prompted FlowWorks to exhibit at NEWEA.

FlowWorks reporting and analysis software enables users to efficiently manage their data for water and wastewater conveyance and treatment, drainage and creek system monitoring, rainfall and climate stations, and industrial applications—all through a secure webpage.

This year’s program features over 30 technical sessions with a wide range of various topics that show practical applications, specific project experience, and lessons learned in all of the relevant disciplines in the wastewater profession. Some of the technical sessions that current or potential FlowWorks’ client may be interested in include:

CSO/Wet Weather I – Wet Weather Issues: Planning Considerations in CSO Control – Session 2
Collection Systems I - Identification and Management of Infiltration/Inflow – Session 7
CSO/Wet Weather II – Spring 2010 Wet Weather Issues – Session 8
CSO/Wet Weather III – Mitigating Wet Weather Water Quality Impacts – Session 11
CSO/Wet Weather IV – CSO Reduction and Management Through Systems Controls – Session 28

FlowWorks will be among over 180 exhibitor displays that will be available to the 1,800+ engineers, consultants, scientists, operators and students the event consistently attracts. Attendees can enjoy a number of opportunities:

Networking
Learn about latest practices, technologies, solutions and regulations in the water quality field
Educational technical sessions, workshops and facility tours
Earn Training Contact Hours (TCHs) or Professional Development Hours (PDHs) by attending technical sessions, participating in tours and for time spent at the Exhibition
View the latest products and services

Be sure to visit us at Booth#131 on 3rd Floor. For more information please visit the NEWEA Conference Website .

FlowWorks in the UK

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Erin Taylor

FlowWorks Team Makes a Splash at the WaPUG Autumn Conference

The FlowWorks team is home after a successful trip to the United Kingdom for the Wastewater Planning Users Group (WaPUG) conference.

The primary topic for discussion during the two-day wastewater and urban drainage event in Blackpool was “What does the future hold—the next five years.”

FlowWorks President Timothy Hicks flew into the UK a few days ahead of time for meetings and to attend the Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM) tradeshow in Telford before picking up FlowWorks Operations Manager Craig Kipkie at the Manchester Airport. The English roads made for adventure as the two missed the turn onto the M6 and found themselves traversing the rural roads of the Wirral. After some hasty map reading, they made it through the Mersey Tunnel and onto the streets of Liverpool, where they were able to locate an excellent pub set against the back wall of Goodison park. Once they were fed, it made for a fun and scenic excursion, Hicks said.

Safe and sound in Blackpool, the FlowWorks team met up with colleagues from Detectronic and IETG, owned by ADS, the firm’s partner in the Seattle Public Utilities Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project. There was much discussion about upcoming projects and plans for using FlowWorks.

Hicks and Kipkie led numerous demonstrations, including what was easily the largest demonstration of the show Thursday evening when they shared online data, live via the FlowWorks site, to a crowd of about 20. The team continued to offer demonstrations and answer questions even as the show was being cleaned up around them on the last day.

Craig Kipkie demonstrates how to use FlowWorks data analysis tools on live field data.

The team also spent time with Detectronic and IETG folks, teaching them the inner workings of the FlowWorks platform—so much so that both firms have been designated as FlowWorks Technical Experts since they now possess a depth of knowledge about the tools and how to effectively employ them.

“All in all, it was a fabulous trade show,” Hicks said. “Three days of really good conference.”

The tradeshow was a unique opportunity to connect with the UK market. The market is highly sophisticated, since the level of modeling going on nationwide is uniformly high and very different from that of the United States because it is operated by ten large, privatized water boards. The result is that all firms in the industry are working ultimately for one or more of the ten water boards.

Craig Kipkie of FlowWorks and Ian Small of Mott MacDonald discuss the details of FlowWorks CSO management tools.

Hicks highlighted plenty of positives, weather aside, and thoroughly enjoyed the trip, he said,

“We had a really great show and met exactly the people we needed to meet and had great conversations and demonstrations with many of them. The people were awesome, the food was great, the venue was good for the purpose, Blackpool was marginally acceptable and the weather was awful. Short of fixing the weather and attracting so many more of the RIGHT kind of attendees that the event outgrows Blackpool, I am not sure the organizers could have done anything more”

Look for FlowWorks at the WaPUG Conference again next year.

FlowWorks in the Big Apple

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Erin Taylor

FlowWorks’ new flow-monitoring partnership with Seattle Public Utilities and ADS was recently announced in Times Square, New York City at rush hour…

FlowWorks Exhibiting at CANECT

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Robin Parker

FlowWorks at CANECT convetion FlowWorks is exhibiting this year at the CANECT conference and trade show at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario on May 4^th and 5^th.

Check us out for live, online demonstrations of our powerful suite of online data collection, monitoring, and analysis and reporting tools. You’ll discover all the benefits of the FlowWorks data service:

Flexible
Affordable
Hardware Neutral
Hassle-Free

Come and find out how FlowWorks’ powerful analysis and graphing tools (including I&I, IDF and statistics) truly make it the best way to ‘Know Your Data’ – be it rainfall, streamflow, water quality or sanitary/stormwater.

This year we will be sharing a booth with our friends at Flowmetrix. If you don’t know them, they are a technically savvy engineering support and calibration firm located in Southern Ontario (offices in Frankford and Dorchester). If you are located in Ontario, you should definitely check them out for your flow servicing needs.

CANECT, billed as “the foremost event for Canadian environmental managers, plant personnel, government policy-makers, lawyers and consultants with responsibilities for environmental affairs”, has been drawing environmental professionals together since 1992.

This year’s show is expected to attract some 2,000 attendees responsible for environmental engineering, regulations and compliance issues. With over 40 presentations and 10 scheduled workshop sessions, it’s a must do for industry professionals.

In addition, the show will be co-located with Partners In Prevention: Ontario’s Health and Safety Conference and Tradeshow, an annual tradeshow of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), expected to attract an additional 6,000 delegates.

COME BY AND VISIT US AT BOOTH #1610! Click here for the floor plan.

And please contact us if you would like a free pass to the show. Call toll free, 1-888-400-3288 or use the contact form.

Timothy Hicks
FlowWorks, Inc.
Seattle Washington
(206) 859-6999