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• Design Smarter, Operate Cheaper: The New Lifecycle Mindset For Pump And Lift Stations

  Part 5 of the Get Pumped Up series brings it all together with a bold but practical shift: treating pump and lift station design as a living process, not a one-time deliverable.

• The Pump Curve Doesn't Lie: What SCADA Data Reveals About Real-World Performance

  In Part 4 of the Get Pumped Up series, the focus shifts from planning to performance—with a clear message: pump inefficiencies aren’t always due to failure, but to how (and where) pumps are operating.

• How To Right-Size Your Lift Station Without The 6-Month Wait

  In Part 3 of the Get Pumped Up series, the spotlight is on speed: how utilities can identify and solve lift station inefficiencies without waiting six months for a redesign study.

• Forget 25-Year Master Plans: It's Time To Rethink Capital Planning For Pump And Lift Stations

  In Part 2 of the Get Pumped Up series, explore the hidden flaw in traditional infrastructure planning: it’s too slow for today’s dynamic conditions.

• Your Pumps Are Bleeding Money: How Real-Time Data And Generative Design Can Save You Thousands

  In the first installment of the Get Pumped Up series, Transcend uncovers a costly truth: your municipal lift station might be bleeding hundreds of dollars an hour in energy costs—without you knowing it.

• How Utilities, Engineers, And Manufacturers Can Overcome Mounting PFAS Compliance Workloads

  Recent federal PFAS regulations will overwhelm consulting engineers, water and wastewater utilities, and equipment manufacturers as thousands of utilities work to comply. Generative design can enable these parties to meet the workload demand and deadlines.

• PFAS Treatment: Tackling "Forever Chemicals" In Our Environment

  This guide delves into the history, widespread applications, and evolving strategies to understand and mitigate the impacts of PFAS on health and ecosystems.

• EPA PFAS Drinking Water Standards: Ensuring Safe and Clean Water

  In this article, Transcend will highlight the importance of EPA PFAS drinking water standards as well as how they ensure safe and clean water systems. We also provide the opportunity to streamline wastewater design for utilities, engineering consultants, and equipment suppliers.

• The Evolution And Impact Of PFAS Regulations

  In this article, Transcend will break down the evolution and impact of PFAS regulations over the years while suggesting innovative technology to assist the affected industries.

• The Engineering Firm Of The Future: Outcomes, Not Hours

  Technology can make, or break, the engineering firm of the future. And by the time this future rolls around (hint: it’s here) it’s too late to play ‘catch up.’

• Wastewater Process Engineers Are Scary Smart

  This transcript of a recorded conversation between Nikolett Szilagyi, Process Engineer, and Adam Tank, Chief Customer Officer at Transcend, involves making sense of a term called fractionation -- an important part of designing biological wastewater treatment plants. 

• Water We Doing? Designing Treatment Plants

  Learn what Transcend is doing in upcoming weeks to improve user experience and recap some of the things they've done in recent past.

• I've Just Designed An Entire Treatment Plant...Now What?

  Explore a few real-world examples of firms who have successfully adopted Transcend tools and can answer the question -- so I've designed a treatment plant, now what?

• Automating Stanley Consultants' Conceptual Design Process For A 1MGD Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility

  The Transcend Design Generator helped Stanley Consultants to automatically ascertain the appropriate sizing requirements for a new Flow Equalization Basin and an extension to the existing Aerobic Digester. 

• What's In The Black-Box? – Bio-P In TDG

  The Transcend Design Generator (TDG) now has the capability to design facilities with biological phosphorus removal! We’d like to highlight some details about the background calculations – this is going to be the first post of our “What’s in the black-box?” series.

• Building Remote Culture – The Transcend Way

  “Establish a Remote Company Culture” is a stated company goal at Transcend. We are a fully remote workforce and it’s not a requirement to go inside the office – so although we enjoy the comfort of our homes, it also creates some challenges for team building, onboarding, and others that need to be paid close attention to.

• I Joined Transcend To Make Engineering Exciting Again

  In the academic world, Engineering and Science are tightly coupled. Scientific truths form the basis of engineering knowledge and professors teach the scientific method to hone skills aimed at solving any problem – from ‘how to cook a juicier steak’ to ‘how to engineer reusable rockets for increasing the accessibility of space travel.’

• Learning Where To Look For Opportunities Will Open Many More

  I wanted to be part of the digital transformation of the water sector because I had experienced firsthand the massive impact that even basic smart systems could have on a utility that was depending on manual monitoring. 

• How AI Can Help During Early-Stage Cost Estimation And Project Phasing

  As a former utility engineering project manager, I understand the difficulty in planning large projects that span multiple years in the context of a capital budget. 

• Existing Preliminary Process Units Are Supported By TDG

  From now on, Transcend Design Generator supports already existing screening and grit removal on plant extensions.