Data-Driven Optimization of Water Pipeline Replacement Programs

Pipeline renewal and rehabilitation planning is becoming more complex. You must balance aging pipelines, constrained budgets, community disruption, regulatory expectations, and coordination with other infrastructure work—all while ensuring decisions are defensible and aligned with long-term goals. Manual planning methods struggle to keep pace with these evolving conditions and complexity. We help you prioritize pipeline investments with confidence by replacing spreadsheets and assumptions with data-driven optimization.

Our approach uses AssetAdvanced to bring risk, cost, timing, and external constraints into a single decision-making framework. By combining advanced analytics, optimization algorithms, and engineering judgment, you can move from reactive, project-by-project planning to a coordinated, long-term investment strategy that delivers the most value at the right time.

Rather than ranking assets in isolation, AssetAdvanced evaluates pipeline risk alongside criticality, service impact, and community considerations. Predictive insights help identify which pipelines are most likely to fail and what the consequences would be, ensuring high-risk, high-impact areas are addressed first.

AssetAdvanced supports intelligent packaging of renewal and rehabilitation projects, grouping work spatially and financially to capture economies of scale. By coordinating pipeline projects across locations and timelines, you can reduce repeat disruptions, streamline construction on busy avenues and side streets, and make better use of available budgets.

Optimized scheduling aligns pipeline renewal programs with budget cycles, operational capacity, road moratoriums, and other utility work. This coordination helps avoid costly conflicts and ensures pipeline renewal and rehab projects are delivered at the right time—without overruns or unnecessary delays – respecting conditions and community needs.

By evaluating thousands of possible investment combinations, AssetAdvanced balances competing objectives such as risk reduction, cost control, regulatory compliance, and community impact. The result is a transparent, unbiased, and defensible capital plan that builds confidence with stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring that every pipeline project planned will work within the constraints and conditions set forth.

Together, these capabilities enable you to:

• Reduce planning time and manual errors
• Lower costs through smarter asset bundling
• Minimize service disruptions and community impact
• Limit future pipeline breaks through proactive, risk-based investment

By prioritizing pipeline investments strategically, we help you deliver reliable service today while building a more resilient network for the future - ensuring every dollar invested in pipeline projects will work harder and go further.

Denver Water in Denver, CO modernized its water main replacement program using the AssetAdvanced Clean Water Networks modules. By unifying all drivers—risk, cost, condition, and community impact—into a single intelligent framework, the utility replaced time consuming manual processes with data driven planning. The tool generates transparent, prioritized renewal packages, tracks systemwide KPIs, and integrates seamlessly with ArcGIS, enabling more efficient, defensible, and optimized main replacement strategies.