Andrew brings eight years of civil engineering and project management experience for the design and construction administration of municipal and utility industry projects. These projects include W/WW pumping and conveyance systems, W/WW treatment, reservoirs, river intakes and diversions, surface water drainage, master planning studies, and existing infrastructure analysis. He has designed water and wastewater plants and utilities, water and wastewater conveyance and storage systems, commercial and institution civil site plans, public roads, and residential developments. Andrew’s strong municipal design and construction experience gives him a detailed understanding of the constraints industry professionals have with maintaining and operating aging infrastructure. Andrew’s process design, construction, and startup experience has allowed him to layout and implement several digital twin applications for plant and system processes.

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Timothy is a 10 year water utility professional with hands-on, in-depth engineering and operational experience in the water utility industry in asset management, pipe prioritization, risk-based analysis, GIS, hydraulic modeling, master planning and forecasting. He has developed asset management and master plans for various sized systems across the United States. Timothy’s strong history in strategic planning and optimization give him unique insight into leveraging data to make informed, meaningful decisions for short and long term impacts. He is currently part of Kimley-Horn’s utility asset management team.

With aging infrastructure and inadequate funding resources, many utilities have begun their journey towards a new paradigm of digital water management. Digital innovation is creating unprecedented opportunities to leverage data and analytics to inform better system-level choices today and improve future outcomes for watershed management, operations, maintenance, capital planning and customer service. This approach includes smart design, smart management, and smart control.

Smart design with a robust data analytics platform allows utilities to unearth deeper infrastructure insights that will help to optimize performance. With the growing volume, complexity and strategic importance of data, utilization of IoT devices and integration of digital twin applications with asset management programs simplify the user experience while providing access to information that supports multiple objectives of smart management. Smart controls, including IoT-supported digital twins, can help integrate and optimize processes and equipment, provide enhanced system diagnostics, and enable two-way communication between smart devices for better control of the water systems.

This presentation discusses how digitalization is transforming the water sector through the experiences of water and wastewater utilities. The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of the current state of digital twins in the water sector, the value potential for digital solutions, and the lessons learned from the utilities that are on the digital journey. This presentation can serve as a critical tool for water decision makers and for those professionals that are interested in advancing the water system operations, security and sustainability.