CivilGEO Testimonials

"I have over 15 years of experience in water resources engineering and I am the Engineering Team Lead at Stantec. I am responsible for quality assurance of engineering deliverables for our clients. I have extensive experience in working on FEMA floodplain mapping studies for nearly every FEMA Region in the US, including performing hydrologic and hydraulic engineering analyses, carrying out technical QA/QC, and training engineering and GIS staff. We have found that GeoHECRAS greatly improves our efficiency in completing HECRAS model studies. In my position as supervisor of our engineering team, I can see the challenges first hand that our staff has had in efficiently creating accurate flood studies using traditional tools with HEC-RAS. With our fixed budget on flood projects, we needed to improve our efficiency in completing these projects and GeoHECRAS has helped a lot in that regard. The post-processing that is built into GeoHECRAS has greatly improved the speed in which we can process the output from HEC-RAS. The semi-automated method in computing the FEMA floodway has really reduced the time required to complete a floodway analysis. We estimate that we save at least half the previous time required in performing post-processing, especially in doing floodway analyses. The graphical editing environment that GeoHECRAS provides makes it very easy and enjoyable to quickly define and make changes to a HEC-RAS model. For example, updating the cross section geometry is really nice because you can graphically edit the cross section in conjunction with the terrain data. Most engineers I know tend to not like change. However, if they do HEC-RAS modeling, I would strongly recommend that they look into using GeoHECRAS for speeding up their engineering workflow. I think that they will be really surprised at how much an improvement in efficiency and accuracy that this software provides."

"I have had a lot of experience working with HEC‑RAS and have recently started using GeoHECRAS. I like how GeoHECRAS combines three or more steps into a single step. For example, it will automatically cut cross sections along an alignment, extract the cross section geometry, assign the bank stations, and determine the flow lengths all by running one command. Also, I like that I only need to maintain a single file and that the software manages all of the other supporting files that are used for the project. With the Army Corps of Engineers HEC‑RAS I have to constantly keep track of the various project, plan, geometry, and flow files for each iteration of the analysis. Whereas, GeoHECRAS manages all of this data for me and allows me to easily focus on the actual engineering involved in the project. The software will combine various supporting data, like AutoCAD drawing files, terrain surfaces, survey files, orthophoto imagery, allowing me to build and view the HEC‑RAS model directly on a map view of the project site. All of this means that GeoHECRAS will save me a lot of time in my HEC‑RAS engineering projects."