How To Find Critical Pipe Bursts

By Luca Serena

While there are commonalities for the chief causes of burst pipes (i.e. frozen pipes, water pressure, corrosion, etc.), the impact of each pipe burst will vary depending on the burst size, duration, location, time of the day, and many other parameters.

Knowing which are the most critical pipes in the network with regards to burst events (for example in terms of customers affected by the potential failure) facilitates the planning of the maintenance activity, allowing for adequate resources allocation for critical assets.

Given the large number of parameters involved in the assessment and the extent of the pipework, the identification of critical pipes can be problematic.

In this article, we are going to provide a scalable and reproducible method to perform a burst criticality assessment within InfoWorks WS Pro.