The infrastructure of a community includes the physical piping, roads, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications wiring, water supply, bridges, etc; while homes, commercial, and industrial facilities will house their own MEP infrastructure (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing).
The gas, water, electric, sewage, telecommunication (including broadband internet) utilities depend on a reliable infrastructure base for safe delivery or return of utility service for its customers.
Britain – investors paid over $10 billion for 12 regional electricity companies
Mexico – aggressively reduced the size its public utility sector resulting in proceeds of $2.4 billion
As a private utility owner, upgrading your utility’s facility and distribution infrastructure is crucial to maintaining a return on your investment and providing reliability and cost-effective services to your customers.
State-of-the art engineering and design software like AutoCAD BIM for Utility Infrastructure is designed to take advantage of building information modeling concepts to not only accelerate project approval time but to also improve communications and decision-making between project stakeholders.