ISIS News

For the first time, an Advanced ISIS training workshop is being run on Thursday 17th October following the annual user conference. It will give those people attending the conference (or those just wanting to develop their flood modelling skills) the opportunity to learn about the advanced fuctionality provided within ISIS

The 2013 ISIS User Conference will be held on Wednesday 16th October at our European headquarters in London. The first presentation will start at 10:00 (registration and refreshments from 09:00) and will end at approximately 17:00.

We will be holding our latest ‘Modelling Made Easy’ webinar on Thursday 16th May at 13:00 (BST). The free 30 minute (including questions) webinar will discuss sources of model uncertainty and will be useful for anyone involved in modelling, working with all model types and software.

The ISIS support team have published another quick tip which discusses how plot settings can be customized within ISIS.

Adam Parkes, one of Halcrow’s water engineers and modellers, discussed how to model urban catchments, including how to deal with urban drainage systems when using ISIS.

The development of the model required bathymetric cross section data for the river channel, a digital elevation model (DEM) for the floodplain and a survey of the bridges, weirs and other structures along the river reach.

Since its launch in 2011, ISIS FAST has gone from strength to strength. Organsations across the globe are utilising this innovative flood inundation model to better understand potential flood risk up to 1,000 times faster.

Halcrow has teamed up with the Environment Agency to provide a set layout for survey data which will improve the efficiency of the overall modelling process when using ISIS and other industry models.

In the UK, we already have close links with numerous universities including Cardiff, Cranfield, Imperial and Glasgow to name a few. We are also working closely with universities across the globe in the Philippines, Australia, France, Vietnam and USA.

The ISIS support team, with help from regular forum contributor PHA, have published another quick tip which discusses exporting chainages and node labels from long section plot.

Halcrow provides a wide range of scheduled courses covering the theory and practice of hydrology, hydraulics, flood risk management and the use of GIS.

ISIS by Halcrow is sponsoring the ‘Changing Extremes in Hydrology’ conference on Monday 15th April at Exeter College in Oxford. This exciting event provides a review of the meteorology and hydrology experienced over the UK in 2012, including the forecasting, warning, and remedial operations, and the impact of the extreme conditions on agriculture and the economy.

ISIS FAST has been successfully trialled as an environmental water management tool for Yanga National Park, a large River Red Gum forest on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia.

As part of our next release of ISIS (v4.0 to be released later this year), which provides a multitude of new tools and features, we are giving a select number of people the opportunity to use ISIS Viewer before it is made publicly available.

Halcrow will be holding their next ‘Modelling Made Easy’ webinar on Thursday 28th February at 13:00 (GMT). The free 30 minute (including questions) webinar will discuss modelling urban catchments, including how to deal with urban drainage systems when using ISIS.

The ISIS e-learning resource is intended for people wanting to learn about hydraulic modelling of flows in open channels, such as rivers, spillways and canals.

In addition, anybody purchasing TUFLOW support through Halcrow will have access to our UK based technical support team at no extra cost. Our team can be contacted through our dedicated support telephone number and email address.

A Halcrow support and maintenance contract is much more than just technical support for your ISIS software. Find out some of the extensive benefits of our support and maintenance contacts which mean that 96% of our users annually renew .

This months tip relates to the ISIS file comparison tool. Do you ever need to review the changes you, or someone else, has made to an ISIS model? The file comparison tool gives a comprehensive overview of those changes.

Mark Roberts discusses the development of the one dimensional elements in ISIS for a flood study linking two watercourses discharging to the North Cardigan Bay. The study required representation of a balancing pond, a number of culverts, a pumping station with sluice controls and tidal outfalls.

Patrick Goodey, Flood Risk Engineer at Bristol City Council said “we are delighted to have won this competition. I have used ISIS Free for a few years, and dabbled with TUFLOW in the past, mainly for direct rainfall and surface water flooding applications. It is fantastic to now have the opportunity for me and my colleagues to use ISIS 2D and improve the way in which we assess and mitigate flood risks to help us continue to make real improvements for the people of Bristol".

The global economic climate means that it is becoming harder than ever to secure budgets for new software purchases, support and maintenance renewals and technical training courses. As a result, we’d like to give our clients peace of mind by freezing our prices for a second year running.