MWH Soft Announces PipePlan for InfoWater, Next Generation of Automated Detailed Pipeline Design Software

Revolutionary New Release Will Equip Engineers with Unprecedented Power,
Speed and Accuracy in Designing and Generating Detailed Pipeline CAD Drawings

Broomfield, Colorado USA, November 5, 2008 — MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, today announced the December 2008 worldwide release of its highly anticipated PipePlan for InfoWater, a state-of-the-art software for detailed pipeline design of water distribution systems. PipePlan will give civil engineers the unprecedented ability to quickly design, plot and complete final drafting of water distribution and transmission pipes in plan and section views.

The engineering design of pressurized pipelines is a complex, time-consuming task. It requires compliance with a daunting number of design criteria, including pipeline minimum slope, maximum spacing between air release valves, intersection with existing utilities, and pipe cover. Meeting these criteria, along with quality assurance standards, requires repetitive iterations based on sound engineering experience.

The forward-looking MWH Soft PipePlan will quickly change the way pipelines are engineered and designed. It provides all the capabilities needed to streamline engineering design processes, optimize detailed pipeline design (both horizontal and vertical alignments), increase productivity and accuracy, and shorten project schedules. PipePlan also features a rich set of automated drawing tools, making it even easier and more efficient for users to quickly generate finished, high quality, detailed CAD design drawings.

PipePlan has already played a crucial role in automating detailed pipeline designs at Khatib & Alami (K&A), a leading engineering consulting firm in the Middle East and North Africa and a Beta tester of the product. “PipePlan is a significant leap,” reports Adel AbouJaoude, Ph.D, K&A Associate and Environmental Engineering Department Manager. “Its intuitive interface and advanced, fully-automated engineering design tools are enabling us to complete and validate detailed pipeline design projects faster and more accurately than ever before. Based on this experience, we are standardizing all our offices on MWH Soft’s InfoWater and PipePlan. The decision will allow us to work smarter and faster, with a single set of data across all our locations, and get better designs into our clients’ hands more quickly. I can categorically say that no other software comes close.”

PipePlan greatly extends the core features of MWH Soft’s InfoWater, the industry-leading GIS-centric water modeling software, providing a comprehensive geospatial environment for water network analysis and design. Users can now leverage their efforts in building detailed hydraulic network models to produce highly professional distribution and transmission line designs in record time and at minimal cost. They can even preserve their “best practice” design information for re-use on future projects, increasing engineering productivity, ensuring quality designs, and preserving their corporate knowledge.

Among its many benefits, PipePlan will help users quickly design pipelines within a flexible, easy-to-use graphical interface; directly access and display node (station) information including slope, angle, pressure, etc.; automatically generate comprehensive pipeline plans and profiles in CAD format as well as high quality plan and profile deliverable sheets; and configure graphical presentation of CAD drawings. The software will also help define the location of pipe ancillary fittings such as air valves, blow offs, bends and tees; report interference with existing/proposed utility networks; instantly update profiles for horizontal alignment changes; visually check compliance with design criteria; optimize pipeline construction cost; and significantly increase the productivity of design engineers and technicians.

“PipePlan is a revolutionary product that brings a host of new and unique detailed pipeline design capabilities to the mainstream, breaking new ground in engineering productivity and efficiency,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and COO of MWH Soft. “By giving mainstream design engineers easy access to advanced engineering tools, we can help them consistently generate higher-quality detailed pipeline designs much faster and at a lower cost. PipePlan sustains MWH Soft’s record for being first, a distinction that is important only because it extends our customers’ competitive advantage. It will influence design engineering for years to come.”

Pricing and Availability
PipePlan for InfoWater will be available by subscription worldwide in December 2008. Prices start at $12,000. For the latest information on the MWH Soft Subscription Program, including availability and purchase requirements, visit www.mwhsoft.com or contact your local MWH Soft Certified Representative.

About MWH Soft
MWH Soft is a leading global provider of technical and infrastructure software and professional solutions designed to meet the technological needs of utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include major water and wastewater utilities on every continent, the majority of the largest North American cities, and ENR top design firms. The multifaceted, state-of-the-art CAD, GIS and Internet enabled products created by MWH Soft empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, maintain and operate highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. For more information, call MWH Soft at (626) 568-6868, or visit www.mwhsoft.com.