Haestad Methods Experiences Worldwide Market Growth in 2003
The company's strong financial results were fueled by the release of several new strategic products, increased software license sales across all product lines, higher renewal rates for ClientCare® maintenance contracts, record-breaking numbers of attendees at training courses, and the introduction of three new definitive textbooks.
John Haestad, President and CEO of Haestad Methods, cited the company's intensified spending in Research and Development (R&D) as one of its key drivers for market growth. "By investing heavily in R&D, Haestad Methods has once again changed the paradigm of computing in the industry and continues to enhance the bridge between modeling, mapping, and management," said Haestad.
Developments in the international markets have also contributed to the company's dramatic jump in sales. International sales have doubled over the past year as Haestad Methods won strategic accounts with some of the world's largest utilities. "With the opening of local offices in China, Australia, and Mexico, Haestad Methods is poised for another exceptional year in 2004," said Douglas Maitland, Director of International Sales for Haestad Methods.
Some of the company's most compelling product launches this year have included GISConnect™ for CAD and GIS interoperability; HAMMER™ for hydraulic transient modeling; PumpMaster® for on-line pump selection and analysis; and Darwin® Designer for optimizing water system design. GISConnect has been reviewed by major industry journals including CAD User, Geospatial Solutions, and the GIS Monitor and has recently won the Cadalyst Editors' Wow! Award. Since its release in August, HAMMER has been widely adopted by some of the world's top consulting firms and has been selected for use in a major Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF) study on the susceptibility of distribution systems to negative pressure transients.
"Haested Methods has enjoyed 24 years of uninterrupted growth," said Niclas Ingemarsson, Executive Vice President of Haestad Methods. "But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our 25th year will be a banner year for our customers. Their commitment and dedication to Haestad Methods will be richly rewarded with the most technologically advanced products the industry has seen."
Haestad Methods is internationally recognized as the world's leading water resources software company by top water and wastewater utilities, government agencies, engineering consulting firms, and universities. The following is a sample of some of the high-profile clients Haestad Methods has served this year:
Aguas Andinas SA (Chile)
The water utility of Santiago supplies water to 5.5 million inhabitants in the country's capital. WaterCAD with WaterObjects is being used by Aguas Andinas to model the distribution network with live links to their GIS and SCADA systems.
Aguazul Bogota SA (Colombia)
This company has a big challenge for its water distribution network in Bogota-to reduce its water loss by approximately 10 percent. WaterGEMS was chosen to model operational and infrastructure scenarios for this task.
Aigues de Terrassa (Spain)
Aigues de Terrassa, the water utility for Terrassa, Spain, serves approximately 200,000 people. After attending Haestad Methods' workshops in Madrid, this Spanish water utility will be leveraging its current WaterCAD models for transient analysis using the new HAMMER module.
American Water Works Corporation (USA)
American Water, which services 20 million customers in 20 US states, 4 Canadian provinces, and South America, added 10 licenses of Darwin Calibrator and Designer for WaterCAD to its suite of Haestad software. This company has also purchased HAMMER to conduct an AwwaRF study.
Beijing Waterworks Group Co Ltd. (China)
Beijing Waterworks Group, the largest water utility in China, purchased Haestad Methods' WaterCAD software to help the City of Beijing guarantee the reliability of its water distribution system for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Carter and Burgess (USA)
Top ENR ranked design firm, Carter and Burgess, signed a long-term agreement with Haestad Methods to provide innovative water resources solutions to over 30 offices nationwide. This agreement deploys wide area network licenses of all Haestad Methods' water resources software with accompanying Corporate ClientCare maintenance agreements to each and every Carter and Burgess office across the United States.
Chicago Department of Water (USA)
The Chicago Department of Water chose WaterGEMS to manage and analyze its system, which provides nearly one billion gallons of potable water to its customers within the city and its 123 suburbs.
City of Tampa (USA)
The City of Tampa, with over 2,200 miles of water mains and an average daily demand of over 74 million gallons, selected WaterCAD for long-range planning and system rehabilitation to help ensure adequate service to one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.
City of Tucson Water Department (USA)
Power users of WaterCAD and WaterGEMS, the engineers at the City of Tucson updated their ClientCare subscription to ensure that they have access to the latest features of Haestad's software. The City of Tucson has been doing innovative work using the LoadBuilder feature in WaterGEMS to predict future demands with traffic analysis zone and water service area GIS layers.
Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia (ESPH) (Costa Rica)
ESPH chose WaterGEMS to complement its ESRI GIS to efficiently model the city's infrastructure. ESPH plans to optimize its model building workflow by automating demand allocation, model skeletonization, and elevation extraction.
EYDAP Athens Water Supply & Sewage Corporation (Greece)
WaterCAD is currently being used by Athens Water to develop water master plans through 2015. This company's engineers are also using WaterCAD to prepare for the increased water consumption during the 2004 Olympics.
Georgia Department of Transportation (USA)
Georgia DOT signed on for another year of ClientCare maintenance and support for its network versions of StormCAD, PondPack, FlowMaster, and CulvertMaster. With ClientCare, Georgia DOT will stay up-to-date with the latest updates and upgrades and receive unlimited technical support.
GHD Pty Ltd. (Australia)
GHD Pty Ltd. is one of Australasia's largest and longest established companies of multi-disciplinary consultants and ranks in the world's top 50 engineering firms. GHD upgraded its SewerCAD and WaterCAD WAN licenses to keep up with the demand for water distribution and sanitary sewer modeling throughout the Australia and Pacific region.
Hidrocapital (Venezuela)
Hidrocapital is Venezuela's largest water and wastewater utility and serves a population of over 5.4 million people. This utility recently adopted WaterCAD as its water distribution modeling solution and renewed its commitment with SewerCAD. Hidrocapital will use Haestad's products to help develop a master plan to improve the utilities water supply system and rehabilitate its existing sanitary sewer system.
Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd. (KBR) (Australia)
Kellogg Brown & Root has selected Haestad Methods' WaterGEMS for ArcGIS to manage its clients' distribution systems. KBR's engineers have geared up for their 2004 projects by participating in WaterGEMS training in South Australia.
Khatib & Alami (Lebanon)
Khatib & Alami selected WaterCAD to conduct a water quality study for the City of Beirut. It also added HAMMER, GISConnect, and PumpMaster to its collection of Haestad Methods' products.
Kimley Horn & Associates Inc. (USA)
Kimley Horn & Associates invested heavily in Haestad technology including software, training, and reference books. The firm added licenses of PondPack, StormCAD, WaterCAD, and FlowMaster in several offices and updated the skills of its engineers by sending them to stormwater engineering and RAM-W training. Kimley Horn has also kept its ClientCare maintenance up-to-date to ensure its engineers are always working with the latest technology.
LuoYang Petrochemical Engineering Company (China)
The LuoYang Petrochemical Engineering Company selected PondPack, FlowMaster, CulvertMaster, StormCAD, SewerCAD, and WaterCAD along with on-site training at its facilities in China.
Malcolm Pirnie Inc. (USA)
Malcolm Pirnie adopted HAMMER for transient analysis and attended training as well. The consulting firm continued its ClientCare subscriptions for many of its offices for FlowMaster, SewerCAD, PondPack, and WaterCAD.
MidCoast Water (Australia)
MidCoast Water in Forster, New South Wales has been using WaterCAD and SewerCAD for over a year to manage its infrastructure. This Australian utility recently renewed its ClientCare maintenance agreements for both products, which will provide them with the latest updates, upgrades, and unlimited technical support for 2004.
Morrison-Maierle Inc. (USA)
Morrison-Maierle added PumpMaster, FlowMaster, and WaterCAD for AutoCAD to its resources and updated its ClientCare subscriptions for CulvertMaster, FlowMaster, WaterCAD, SewerCAD, and StormCAD. This firm recently upgraded its WaterCAD license to a network version to allow engineers wider access.
Nolte Associates Inc. (USA)
With over 350 professionals in offices throughout the Western United States and Mexico, Nolte Associates provides civil engineering services for land development and water and wastewater infrastructure. Nolte Associates increased its modeling capabilities by adding HAMMER, SewerCAD, CulvertMaster, FlowMaster, PondPack, StormCAD, and WaterCAD to its modeling resources.
National Office for Potable Water (ONEP) (Morocco)
The national water authority in Morocco, ONEP, is responsible for the wastewater treatment and water supplies for the country's cities. The water authority's engineering team selected network licenses of SewerCAD, StormCAD, and PondPack, which will be used to help prepare a comprehensive plan for improving Morocco's wastewater infrastructure and protecting vulnerable receiving streams.
North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute (China)
The North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute is one of the biggest municipal institutes in China. After attending Haestad Methods' workshop in Hangzhou, the institute selected WaterCAD, SewerCAD, StormCAD, and HAMMER. The institute plans to perform a transient analysis with HAMMER on a long-distance water supply system in Libya.
Northwest Electric Power Design Institute (NWEPDI) (China)
The Northwest Electric Power Design Institute specializes in designing large electric power plants throughout the world. This institute selected HAMMER to perform transient analysis on its long distance water supply system projects.
Orissa Water Supply & Sewerage Board (India)
The Orissa Water Supply & Sewerage Board is the major supplier of drinking water and wastewater services for the population of Orissa. The board chose SewerCAD to model, design, and analyze its sanitary sewers throughout this large Indian state.
PBS & J (USA)
Engineers at PBS & J use many of Haestad Methods' products on a regular basis. This ENR Top 500 firm added licenses of WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, FlowMaster, and CulvertMaster to several of its offices.
Providence Water (USA)
Providence Water, which provides an average of 68 million gallons of drinking water daily to business and residential customers throughout Rhode Island, selected WaterGEMS for planning, analysis, and maintenance of the city's three main pressure zones.
Public Utilities Board (Singapore)
The Public Utilities Board (PUB) is Singapore's sole supplier of water and caters to a population of 3.9 million people. PUB's Water Department selected WaterCAD to help improve the utility's existing distribution systems, plan and develop new water resources projects, and expand water systems to meet projected demands. PUB also purchased HAMMER to analyze hydraulic transients in its water distribution system.
Quebec City (Canada)
Municipal mergers in 2002 resulted in the combination of 13 former municipalities and one urban community into the new Quebec City mega city. In order to improve development planning, optimize the distribution of drinking water, and better understand how the water supply system for this new entity functions, Quebec City selected the French version of WaterCAD and Darwin Calibrator to produce a hydraulic model of their water supply system.
Salt Lake City (USA)
Salt Lake City, host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics, developed a GIS-based model of its water distribution system using WaterGEMS. The city's engineers polished up on their modeling skills this year by attending Haestad's certified training held in Phoenix, AZ.
SAAE - Servico Autonomo de Água e Esgoto de Guarulhos (Brazil)
After attending Haestad's workshops in Brazil, SAAE purchased multiple network licenses of WaterCAD to model its water distribution systems, which serve approximately 94 percent of Guarulhos' population.
SABESP - Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)
SABESP holds the record this year for enrolling the highest number of attendees in Haestad Methods' water distribution and sanitary sewer modeling courses. This long-term Haestad Methods' client also purchased additional software licenses for its new departments.
Seoul Metropolitan Government (South Korea)
There are 130 water distribution plants in Seoul and their combined reserve capacity is 1.26 million tons for 11 million citizens. WaterGEMS was selected by the Seoul Metropolitan Government to assist in the complete replacement of 15,256 km of water pipes by the year 2005 and to complete a water quality analysis of the system.
Tallinn Water Ltd. (Estonia)
Tallinn Water signed on for another year of ClientCare maintenance and support for WaterCAD, SewerCAD, and the Skelebrator and Darwin Calibrator modules for WaterCAD. It also added HAMMER to its suite of Haestad software. The engineers at Tallinn Water recently attended Haestad Methods' WaterCAD and SewerCAD courses in Birmingham, England.
URS (USA)
URS Corporation, the No. 1 ENR-rated design firm, signed an agreement with Haestad Methods to provide innovative water resources solutions and help URS better serve its clients. To simplify its water resources management needs, URS selected Haestad Methods' Corporate ClientCare maintenance agreement granting URS over 100 subscriptions in over 40 of its offices.
Veolia Water Philippines (Philippines)
Veolia Water, the water division of Veolia Environnement, operates in all aspects of water cycle management, including production of potable and industrial water, water distribution,
wastewater treatment, and operating and outsourcing. Veolia Water purchased HAMMER and SewerCAD for its Philippine operations.
About Haestad Methods:
Haestad Methods has been in the business of enabling engineers with technology for 25 years and is internationally recognized as the world's leading water resources software company. The company provides more than 130,000 civil engineers in over 170 countries with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software, services, continuing education workshops, and publications.
Haestad Methods' complete suite of engineering software products for water, stormwater, and wastewater modeling and management includes WaterGEMS®, WaterCAD®, PumpMaster™, HAMMERTM, GISConnect™, Darwin®, WaterSAFETM, SewerCAD®, StormCAD®, PondPack®, FlowMaster®, CulvertMaster®, and HEC-PackTM. Haestad Methods trains thousands of engineers each year. It is duly authorized to award CEUs and PDHs and is licensed by Sandia National Laboratories to conduct RAM-WSM (Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities) Training.
For more information visit www.haestad.com, www.watersecurity.org, or www.civilquiz.com.
Source: Haestad Methods