DIGITAL INTEGRATION: MAKING THE INVISIBLE ACTIONABLE

What elevates SUE from a technical service to an innovation engine is integration. Through modeling, visualization, and data federation, the team translates raw field findings into actionable intelligence that supports:

• Advanced constructability reviews
• Optimized sequencing and scheduling
• Safer excavation and tunneling operations
• More accurate as-builts for long term systems

This digital thread ensures that design engineers, construction teams, operations staff, and City leadership all work from the same validated foundation of information. In an environment as utility-dense as a 50-year-old wastewater treatment plant, this visibility is essential. Equally important, this integrated approach supports safer daily field operations by reducing uncertainty before crews mobilize and excavation begins.

BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY

As the City of Austin prepares for decades of population growth and system demand, the modernization of Walnut Creek is as much about the future as it is about today. High-accuracy SUE data will form a foundational layer for operational and capital planning decisions for the next 50–100 years, reducing future maintenance costs, improving emergency response, and supporting long-term capital planning. This innovation reduces risk, enhances safety, and increases long-term value for communities.

MWH’S COMMITMENT TO INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

At MWH, our core value is simple: our next opportunity depends on the performance of our last. On projects like Walnut Creek, this means bringing forward tools and processes that elevate accuracy, clarity, and decision-making from day one.

Through this approach, we’re not just supporting Austin’s largest wastewater treatment modernization, we’re setting a new standard for how complex infrastructure is planned, visualized, and built.

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