The upgrade expands Transcend’s generative engineering platform to deliver complete, regulator-ready surface water treatment designs—powered by standards that ensure confidence, speed, and consistency.
Princeton, NJ — December 10, 2025 — Utilities face rising regulatory pressure, aging assets, and increasingly complex source-water challenges. Engineering teams are being asked to do more with less.
To address these challenges, Transcend, the market leader in generative engineering for critical infrastructure, today announces a major expansion of its Drinking Water platform — a release that enables complete surface-water treatment plant design in minutes, backed with high-fidelity, traceable engineering data that gives utilities and engineers the confidence to make accurate, optimal decisions in the earliest phases of infrastructure projects — where as much as 80% of total project cost is effectively locked in.
Surface Water Treatment: From Concept to Regulator-Ready
The Drinking Water module in the Transcend Design Generator (TDG) allows engineers to generate full, regulator-ready treatment designs. This includes pH adjustment, coagulation, flocculation, and granular media filtration — all with real-time engineering adjustments and embedded design best practices.
What once took months of feasibility studies and manual rework can now be accomplished in minutes, giving utilities immediate visibility into treatment performance, cost, and footprint.
“Utilities can’t afford to lose months to rework and uncertainty,” said Antony Rhine, COO of Transcend. “Our Surface Water Treatment capability empowers them to deliver safe, compliant designs faster — grounded in standards that are governed, not spreadsheets.”
Design Standards: Codifying the Way Utilities Design
Every utility speaks its own engineering dialect. Design Standards turn that complexity into a shared language by embedding each utility’s unique standards directly into TDG. This allows utilities to share standards with consultants and their supply chain, ensuring designs reflect real-world capital planning and conceptual design requirements.
Users can now select a utility on the first screen and instantly load all defaults, preferences, and sizing rules — ensuring every design begins in compliance with that utility’s specifications.
For utilities, this means consistent, review-ready designs. For consultants and suppliers, it means faster approvals and clearer alignment with client expectations.
“We’re digitizing the DNA of critical infrastructure,” said Ari Raivetz, CEO. “Each new utility that joins strengthens the ecosystem — creating a network effect of speed, quality, and ultimately better infrastructure for all.”
Advancing Trust in Digital Design
This release strengthens Transcend’s commitment to delivering credible, standards-driven digital design tools aligned with how real-world engineering decisions are made. Surface Water Treatment and Design Standards were developed with extensive input from industry practitioners to ensure outputs engineers can trust, review, and defend.
Closing
With the addition of Surface Water Treatment and Design Standards, Transcend continues to redefine how critical infrastructure is designed. The TDG platform now stands as the industry’s only standards-driven, regulator-ready design environment for drinking water — empowering utilities, consultants, and partners to deliver the infrastructure the world needs, faster and with greater confidence.
About Transcend
Transcend is a generative engineering company that brings data standardization, governance, and traceability to critical infrastructure design—empowering asset owners, engineers, and technology suppliers/OEMs to plan, design, and build with confidence.
