2-day PCSWMM.NET/SWMM5 workshops
in English

The 2-day workshop is provided with the time-limited PCSWMM.NET /  SWMM5 software is designed to help you become proficient with the modeling packages. In two days of hands-on workshops, you will learn the latest version of the PCSWMM.NET graphical decision support system, as well as the internals of the latest version of the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM5). The PCSWMM software (included with the workshop, together with all documentation and instructional materials) is time-limited, and an appropriate license must be obtained later to maintain the software. The software includes annual unlimited support.

To evaluate how this scaleable, integrated and open tool set can improve your current modeling work register now for one of these workshops. To request more info, please email us.

The Modeling Programs

About PCSWMM

PCSWMM.NET* is the all-new version of CHI's comprehensive, GIS-based, graphical decision support system for US EPA SWMM5 urban drainage modeling (sanitary, storm and/or combined systems). Built from the ground up around a modern, powerful GIS engine that works seamlessly with the latest GIS data formats, PCSWMM.NET implements advanced, intelligent tools for streamlining sewer collection system model development, optimization and analysis. With full support for the latest, fully dynamic US EPA SWMM5 hydrology/hydraulics engine, PCSWMM.NET provides a scaleable (unlimited model sizes), and complete array of professional, enterprise level, urban drainage system modeling tools for an unbelievably affordable price.

PCSWMM.NET is the most powerful urban drainage modeling application for working with GIS/CAD based data. PCSWMM.NET enables both engineers and GIS professionals to work on the same data, improving workflow and increasing the flexibility of your model building and analysis toolset. In addition to direct support for ESRI ArcGIS geodatabases*, ArcView shape files and ArcInfo E00 files, PCSWMM.NET supports the leading open standard and proprietary GIS and CAD formats, including Geomedia SQL, MapInfo, Microstation, AutoCAD, GML, OpenGIS SQL, KML and many others (over 30 vector and raster formats supported), giving you the flexibility to choose the SWMM data storage format that's right for you.

PCSWMM.NET's high-performance, massively scaleable GIS engine also provides powerful GIS analysis and hydraulic modeling in a single stand-alone environment, with no other third-party licenses required. You can now create, edit, modify, run, map, analyze, design and optimize your GIS based sewer network models and instantly review, query and display simulation results either from within the specialized and optimized PCSWMM.NET interface or from within ArcGIS (or the GIS of your choice) – its up to you.

PCSWMM.NET automatically maintains a standard, fully accessible US EPA SWMM5 input file at all times. Support is provided for using other SWMM5 data editors (e.g. US EPA SWMM5 interface, or in-house tools), as edits to the input file are detected and the SWMM model GIS layers are automatically updated. PCSWMM.NET provides direct support for opening, editing, running, plotting and analyzing existing SWMM5 models.

PCSWMM.NET goes beyond the current crop of modeling tools to ensure users have a deep knowledge of the underlying model processes, to increase user competence and confidence. Please refer to our PCSWMM.NET pages for more information.

About SWMM

The EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of runoff quantity and quality from primarily urban areas. The runoff component of SWMM operates on a collection of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and generate runoff and pollutant loads. The routing portion of SWMM transports this runoff through a system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and regulators. SWMM tracks the quantity and quality of runoff generated within each subcatchment, and the flow rate, flow depth, and quality of water in each pipe and channel during a simulation period comprised of multiple time steps.

SWMM was first developed in 1971, and has since undergone several major upgrades since then. It continues to be widely used throughout the world for planning, analysis and design related to stormwater runoff, combined sewers, sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems in urban areas, with many applications in non-urban areas as well. The current edition, Version 5, is a complete re-write of the previous release. Please refer to our SWMM pages for more information.

Program

Participants supply their own lap-top computers, and the software is sent to participants ahead of the workshop (unless local desk-top computers are being used, and the software uploaded by the instructors - please see location specific details below). Each workshop will run from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily (to 4:00 pm on the last day). Lectures will be followed by hands-on exercises allowing you to explore the different aspects of the package.  Participation in the Workshop earns 1.5 CEUs. Content may vary slightly from the topics listed below.

Day 1 - Introduction to PCSWMM/SWMM modeling

• Introduction to SWMM hydrology/hydraulics and modeling procedures: discretization, sensitivity, calibration, error analysis
• Overview of SWMM applications: examples of new development drainage design, remediation, mitigation work, water in basements (WIBs), rainfall dependant infiltration/inflow (RDII), and watershed scale planning
• Surface hydrology event modeling: processes, data requirements, results interpretation, hands-on exercises
• Hydraulic event modeling incl. natural channel, free-surface, surcharge, and backwater flow effects: theory, limitations, applications, hands-on exercises
• Continuous modeling and water quality build-up / washoff: processes, data requirements, model output, hands-on exercises
• Detailed drainage design hands-on exercises

Day 2 - Intermediate/advanced use of PCSWMM/SWMM

• Sanitary sewer modeling, incl. DWF estimation and pattern creation
• Rainfall derived inflow and infiltration (RDII) modeling
• GIS integration, importing/exporting, entity aggregation/disaggregation, discretization and visual analysis
• Sensitivity, calibration, and error analysis (SCEA)
• Precipitation and meteorological data management, radar-rainfall, storm dynamics analysis, probability and statistics, hands-on exercises
• Detention pond design and multiple best management practice (BMP) analysis

Instructors

The workshop will be led by one of, or a combination of, the following instructors:

William James, DSc, PhD, P.E., Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Guelph University and CEO of CHI, is an internationally recognized authority on stormwater runoff, with over 40 years experience in research, teaching, and consulting to consultants and government agencies. He has published 20 books, over 200 technical papers, and has presented professional courses throughout the world. Dr. James has supported SWMM from its earliest distribution, developing the first PC version in 1984. For more information, please see: http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/wjames/

Robert James, BSc(Eng) P.E., has worked for CHI for 16 years, both as a software programmer and as a consultant on a wide variety of urban drainage management projects, He has conducted workshops on SWMM in the USA, Canada and overseas and has overseen the development of PCSWMM from version 4.0 (in 1992) to the current release.

Gilles Rivard, M. Sc., P.E. is the President of Aquapraxis inc., a firm specializing in urban hydrology, stormwater modeling and water resources planning. Before founding Aquapraxis in 2000 he had 25 years of professional experience, working in large consulting firms like Dessau-Soprin and SNC-Lavalin in the Province of Québec. He has published numerous papers and a book (in French) in 1998 on stormwater management. He is currently Chairman of the International Committee on Source Control (IWA/IAHR) and, apart from being a member of the national Committee for sewer networks for the INFRAGuide Program (NRC), he has personally written three national guides on sewer networks in this Program. Over the years, he has accumulated significant practical experience with PC-SWMM on modeling projects at the national and international levels, and has conducted PC-SWMM Workshops since 2000.

C. Gibson Chen, Ph.D, P.E. is the President of Avetin Engineering Ltd., a firm specializing in modeling, water resources planning, and infrastructure design. He worked in large consulting firms and involved various types of projects before founding his company. His background and experience includes flow meter installation and data collection, flow data QA/QC and statistical analysis, hydrological and hydraulic models, sewer system planning and design, stormwater BMP and treatment, and wastewater treatment improvements. He has been a SWMM user 1995, and has developed numerous models in Ohio, and has been using PCSWMM for several large modeling projects since 2002.

Mauricio Herrera, MSc, is a PhD candidate under Dr. William James at the University of Guelph, and is working on multi-objective calibration and BMP design using SWMM. He is currently working for CH2MHill as a Water Resources Engineer out of the Vancouver office. Mauricio has utilized SWMM on a wide variety of hydrologic and hydraulic applications for projects in North America and overseas. Mauricio has been teaching SWMM and PCSWMM for the last 4 years.

Alexander Maestre, Ph.D. is currently working for GeoSyntec Consultants as a Senior Staff Engineer in Atlanta, Georgia. His dissertation under Dr. Robert Pitt at the University of Alabama covered research on stormwater constituents using the NPDES phase I stormwater permits. As a graduate student he assisted in several water resources classes using PCSWMM and co-authored the "Getting Started" chapters included in CHI's User's guide to SWMM.  His Master's degree was in water resources at the U of Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) under Dr. Mario Diaz-Granados, and focused on hydrologic balances in lakes and wetland systems using GIS.

Michael Gregory, M.Sc., P.Eng., P.E., senior project manager at TSH, has over 16 years of experience as a water resources engineer specializing in the planning, analysis, and design of stormwater management systems throughout North America. He has been a user of SWMM and PCSWMM since 1991, and has assisted with the development, technical support and training for a variety of SWMM-related software and modeling techniques since 1997.

Chris Brooker BSc(Eng) MSc(Eng) PrEng has been a consulting engineer specialising in environmental water related subjects and hydraulic structures since 1982. In 2001 he opened a practice in South Africa offering specialist consulting services mainly to other consulting engineers. He is an external examiner and occasional visiting lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of the Witwatersrand, and in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pretoria. Chris has authored numerous journal papers and conference presentations.

Details

To register

Complete the online registration form to choose venue, calculate fees owing and complete the shopping cart checkout process.

Fees

For participants who bring their own laptop computers, the fee for the software and two full days is $945. Full-time students are entitled to a 1/3 discount, with proof of status. Additional fees are payable for computer rental. Continental breakfast, coffee, beverages and snacks are included each day.

CEU’s

Each participant will earn 1.5 Continuing Education Units for the two day workshop (0.75 CEUs per day).

Included materials

Participants will receive:

1. PCSWMM.NET software (time-limited single user license),
2. Urban Drainage Modeling workbook (ca. 285 pp) - book of the course complete with PowerPoint slides and step-by-step exercises,
3. Rules for Responsible Modeling (300 pp) - modeling guide book,
4. User’s Guide to SWMM (950 pp) - latest edition; edited, indexed and reformatted in a hardcover 6 x 9" format, and
5. workshop training materials (i.e. workshop evaluation, workshop certificate, etc.).

PCSWMM.NET comes with all reference material on-line. Attendees may purchase the full single-user license with training of the PCSWMM.NET software for a significant discount (see registration form). CHI may honor the workshop discount if the software is purchased within 3 months of attending a workshop.

Locations

Details on location, computer requirements and convenient accommodation for a specific venue will be available closer to the date of the workshop as they are finalized. Registrants receive full information from CHI's Kathy Holland in their registration acknowledgement. Usually an excellent hotel with conference facilities, accessible to highways and airports, is selected.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations prior to 14 calendar days before the workshop will be refunded in full. Cancellations received within 14 days but prior to 7 calendar days before the workshop will forfeit 50% of the registration fee. Cancellations received less than 7 days before the workshop will not be refunded, however registrants will be eligible for a 50% credit towards any future workshop.

CHI retains the right to cancel the workshop. If the workshop is cancelled registrants will receive a full refund of the registration fee. CHI will not be liable for any other expenses occurred by the registrant. Normally cancellation will not occur within 7 days of the date of the workshop.

For more information

Contact Bill James at CHI, tel: 1-519-767-0197, fax: 1-519-489-0695 or email: info@computationalhydraulics.com

* PCSWMM.NET is proprietary software owned by CHI and was written in Canada.