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Transcend Design Generator’s Living Master Plan Gives Utilities Resilience

Transcend Design Generator’s Living Master Plan Gives Utilities Resilience

After twelve months of collaborating with your consulting engineer, you’ve finished your utility’s master plan. Relief. Then, right as it’s…

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Autodesk and Transcend Sign MOU to Accelerate the Generative Design of Critical Infrastructure

Autodesk and Transcend Sign MOU to Accelerate the Generative Design of Critical Infrastructure

The collaboration aims to streamline the capital planning process for vertical assets in the water & wastewater industry October 25th,…

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How Generative Design Technology is Used to Build Relationships With Regulators & Reduce Project Risk

How Generative Design Technology is Used to Build Relationships With Regulators & Reduce Project Risk

By Thomas Klein, Customer Success Manager A valuable lesson I learned several years ago as a civil engineering project manager…

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How AI can help during early-stage cost estimation and project phasing

How AI can help during early-stage cost estimation and project phasing

Written by Thomas Klein, Customer Success Manager As a former utility engineering project manager, I understand the difficulty in planning…

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Flow scheme customization features in TDG

Flow scheme customization features in TDG

Flow scheme diversions were recently added to the Transcend Design Generator. Advanced users of the design generator know that the…

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The Brazilian Water Market – Three Lessons From a Recent Trip to São Paulo

The Brazilian Water Market – Three Lessons From a Recent Trip to São Paulo

Written by Adam Tank, Chief Customer Officer Sahil Chaini, Imre Toth, and I recently spent three days in Brazil visiting…

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What’s in the black-box? – Bio-P in TDG

What’s in the black-box? – Bio-P in TDG

The Transcend Design Generator (TDG) now has the capability to design facilities with biological phosphorus removal! We’d like to highlight…

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CAD is dead. BIM is the future.

CAD is dead. BIM is the future.

Written by Tamas Mayer, Architectural Engineer CAD is dead and BIM is the future. There’s a term called ’BIM’ floating…

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Existing Preliminary Process Units are supported by TDG

Existing Preliminary Process Units are supported by TDG

From now on, Transcend Design Generator (TDG) supports already existing screening elements and grit removal on plant extensions. This was…

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SBR Is Making A Comeback

SBR Is Making A Comeback

What Is SBR Technology?  SBR technology is a type of wastewater treatment system that combines the concept of batch and…

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How Automation Can Help With Your Rate Case

How Automation Can Help With Your Rate Case

There’s very little discussion on how technology, and especially engineering automation tools, may provide significant help with the #1 most…

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The One Tool You Need To Train Junior Wastewater Engineers

The One Tool You Need To Train Junior Wastewater Engineers

Hiring, onboarding, and training new employees have been difficult during the pandemic. This is especially true for junior engineers in…

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Clients

Technology Providers & OEMs Technology Providers & OEMs

TDG rapidly generates accurate budgetary proposals to help suppliers bid more, win more, and sell more.

Asset Owners and Utilities Asset Owners and Utilities

TDG streamlines the capital planning and conceptual design processes to accelerate project timelines and deliver better outcomes.

EPCs, AECs, and Consultants EPCs, AECs, and Consultants

TDG enables engineering firms to deliver more value to their clients & increase competitiveness.

Individuals Individuals

TDG works for individual engineers who want to grow their business and reduce their non-billable time.

Academic Academic

Transcend supports students and professors around the world to incorporate TDG into their curriculum.

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Transcend tools Transcend tools

Access a number of tools Transcend has developed to help engineers and industry professionals take back their time.

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Industries

Water and Wastewater Water and Wastewater

TDG creates unique, optimized designs of water & wastewater treatment facilities by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering field.

Power Power

TDG creates unique, optimized designs of T&D assets by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering discipline.

Solutions

WWTP Design WWTP Design

TDG generates optimized, unique designs for water and wastewater treatment facilities by automating decisions and calculations across engineering fields.

Substation Design Substation Design

TDG generates optimized, unique designs for T&D assets by automating decisions and calculations across engineering disciplines.

Utility Interconnection Hub Utility Interconnection Hub

For transmission providers and power utilities, simplify the interconnection process by integrating TDG into your website to ensure developers submit fully compliant collector substation designs from the start.

Transcend Proposal Generator Transcend Proposal Generator

Enables technology suppliers and OEMs to generate more proposals, faster, with more detail and less resources, so you can sell more of your technology and/or equipment

White Label Proposal Generator White Label Proposal Generator

Generate qualified leads, elevate your customer experience, and simplify your engineering and channel partner workflows in an intuitive, user-friendly interface integrated into your website.

PFAS Feasibility Study PFAS Feasibility Study

For drinking water utilities, automatically generate accurate CAPEX and OPEX estimates to calculate the cost of upgrading your facility to meet stringent PFAS regulations

Booster Station Design Booster Station Design

Automates and simplify the complex process of designing booster pumping stations

DC Battery Sizing DC Battery Sizing

Get precise battery sizing recommendations in minutes for renewable energy and other critical infrastructure projects