PIONEER version 2.2 has been released and installed at Southern Water and United Utilities. PIONEER 2.2 includes enhancements to the PIONEER data import, Excel Add-in and scenario analysis functionality.
Marcus Fowler will be speaking at the Aqua Enviro 'Recent Advances in Energy Savings in the Water Industry' event in Leeds on 21st February. His talk, entitled 'Reducing Water Supply Energy Costs Through Optimal Operation' is scheduled for 09:45 - 10:10. Read more.
Marcus Fowler will be presenting a paper with Kevin Woodward (United Utilities) at the 5th European Water and Wastewater Management conference and exhibition at the Barbican Center, London, Tuesday 27th September 2011. The paper is entitled 'Proof of Concept of an On-line Pump Scheduling and Control system'. Click here to view the EWWM timetable.
Tynemarch is presenting a paper at the 'Recent Advances in Energy Saving in the Water Industry' conference in Leeds on 21st February 2012 where we will be describing examples of the implementation of MISER for the minimisation of water supply operating costs and energy use through optimal operation. Read More.
The PIONEER Online Community has been developed as a resource for PIONEER users, containing useful information and downloads. It features an online forum in which users can share their views and experiences and seek advice from Tynemarch specialists and other PIONEER users. Read More.
UK Water Industry Research and the Environment Agency has commissioned a significant research project into "Customer behaviour and water use", appointing Tynemarch as the lead contractor assisted by Blue Marble Research Ltd. Current methods for forecasting household consumption rely on a deterministic approach and do not accommodate customer behaviour changes. The research will explore the opportunities for incorporating behavioural elements in microcomponent methods and the potential use of stochastic approaches. The project will inform a forthcoming update to the EA Water Resources Management Plan guidance and identify areas where further research is needed to reduce estimate uncertainty.
The Spring 2011 edition of Imperial Engineer magazine features an article on Tynemarch. The article describes the origins of the Company and some of its key achievements throughout the almost 30 years of the company's existence, including the development of The Common Framework for Capital Maintenance Planning (see also this paper) and, recently, the PIONEER integrated software environment that supports a wide variety of asset management planning modelling approaches.
The first PIONEER User Group meeting took place on 26th May 2011 at the Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel in London, providing an opportunity for open discussion of asset management current practice and aspirations. The topics under discussion included the current status and use of PIONEER in companies and plans for the future, views on potential PIONEER enhancements, and mechanisms for selecting and funding PIONEER enhancements. The User Group was considered by all involved to be a positive and productive event and tentative plans were made for a second User Group near the end of 2011.
PIONEER has been delivered and installed at South East Water with the aid of Tynemarch specialists.
Tynemarch has been chosen by UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) to develop a new calculation method for setting wastewater treatment works Flow to Full Treatment (FFT) consent conditions. The Tynemarch tender was chosen because of our objective and comprehensive approach to data analysis and method selection, and the success of our previous project concerning the Dry Weather Flow consent condition. Further details are provided in the project résumé (available on request).
Wessex Water has been operating a major tariff trial logging over 5,500 domestic customers to determine the influence of tariffs on their consumption, the largest scale detailed domestic customer monitoring study in the UK. Tynemarch has been appointed to analyse the data from the trial. Read more.
Tynemarch modelling of water mains burst rates for Sutton & East Surrey Water was referred to as an example of good practice in an Ofwat paper entitled 'Climate change - good practice from the 2009 price review'. The paper comments that the modelling work "had a strong evidence base" and "enabled the company to make more informed decisions on its future infrastructure maintenance to better cope with climate change". See page 15 of the paper.
Robert Warren will speak at the Water UK Leakage Conference 2010 on Thursday 28th October. Download Programme.
Marcus Fowler is presenting a paper 'Optimisation of Energy in Water Supply Using Pump Scheduling' at the IWA Water and Energy conference in Amsterdam on 11 November 2010, describing three case studies relating to differing levels of implementation of Miser for pump scheduling.
Southern Water has announced that they will be using PIONEER to give their asset managers the capability to optimise capital maintenance investment programme to meet the service objectives and expenditure outcomes of AMP5. More.
Dee Valley Water has purchased a licence for PIONEER including company-specific models that were calibrated by Tynemarch. More.
United Utilities have awarded Tynemarch a 10-year contract to provide support to the PIONEER software and associated models.
Tynemarch has been awarded a 9 month UKWIR contract to research into Economic Level of Leakage Cost Curves. More.
South West Water has confirmed the first phase of implementation of Pump Scheduling using Miser. As part of its PUROS programme of efficiency savings, the Miser model will be in operational use from April 2010.
AWS have purchased their 5th Miser licence, to expand their use of the software for water resources analysis, failure consequence modelling, investment planning and operational planning.
George Heywood (Tynemarch) and Mark Kaney (United Utilities) presented a paper at the WaPUG autumn meeting on the implementation of PIONEER in United Utilities. More.
Dr. Jeremy Lumbers presented a paper "Optimal Asset Management Planning: Advances In Water Mains And Sewers Analysis Within A New Modelling Environment" at the LESAM 2009 conference in Miami, USA. More.
A Pioneering Approach To Meet The Challenge Of PR09 And AMP5, Press Release 18th September 2009. More.
A MISER User Group Meeting was held on Wednesday, 26th November 2008. Request Review.
Robert Warren is a nominated speaker at the 8th Annual Water UK Leakage Conference on the 18th October 2007. More details to follow when the programme is finalised.
Robert Warren is to present a paper entitled 'A closer look at measured night flows in sectorised networks' at the IWA Water Loss 2007 Conference in Bucharest, September 23-26th 2007. More information about the conference itself can be found at www.waterloss2007.com,
Robert Warren is speaking at the 7th Annual Water UK Leakage Conference on the 4th October 2006 on the subject of separating customer night use from leakage, a current UKWIR research project for which Tynemarch are the contractors. More.
Tynemarch's Manuel Starr has won 2nd prize in a recent paper competition. Manuel's paper entitled "An Improved Definition of Sewage Treatment Works Dry Weather Flow" was runner-up in the annual CIWEM Metropolitan Branch Young Members' Paper Competition. The paper can be viewed in our Publications section.
Robert Warren of Tynemarch made a presentation at SBWWI in Coventry on Tues 6 Dec entitled "Developments in Supply Pipe Leakage Estimation".
George Heywood (Tynemarch) and Ed Bramley (Yorkshire Water) were presented with the Best Paper Award at the WaPUG 2005 Autumn Meeting in Blackpool, for their paper 'Towards a New Definition of Dry Weather Flow'. The paper reports work undertaken as part of a recently completed UKWIR project. The paper is on the web4water website.
Robert Warren of Tynemarch is speaking at the Global Water Leakage Technology Summit in London 26-27 January 2006 with Frank van der Kleij of Bristol Water on the "Benefits and Limitations of Night Flow Component Estimation in District Meter Areas". Conference Details.
Dr Jeremy Lumbers of Tynemarch will be making a presentation at the CIWEM conference "Infrastructure Asset Maintenance and Management" at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on Jan 11, 2006. Conference Details.
Tynemarch participated in Water UK's Asset Management Forum on the 7th July 2005.
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Tynemarch have recently released the Water Resources extension for MISER
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Robert Warren of Tynemarch presented a paper entitled 'The service pipe - a forgotten asset in leak detection' at the Leakage 2005 Conference in Canada, which was attended by most of the world's leading water loss experts from 30 different countries. The paper can be viewed in our Publications section. More information about the conference itself can be found at www.leakage2005.com.
The latest MISER User Group Meeting was held on Thursday 24th February, 2005 in the Copenhagen Suite of the London Hilton Euston Hotel.
