Capital Planning Software for Water and Utilities

For a water utility the deciding factors are planning around regulatory mandates, prioritizing by condition and equity, and getting funding splits right across a multi-year cycle.

CIPAce™ is built for that, and the City of Baltimore Department of Public Works plans over 500 million dollars in annual capital projects for its water, wastewater, storm water, and solid waste systems on the platform.

The plan has to weigh mandates alongside condition and cost, in a consistent method. CIPAce™ prioritizes infrastructure by asset condition, equity, and regulatory mandates in a weighted scoring system.

The City of Baltimore implemented the EPA mandated Integrated Planning Framework on CIPAce in just three months.

Alignment comes from making regulatory drivers an explicit, weighted factor in prioritization rather than a side note. CIPAce™ ranks projects by condition, equity, and regulatory mandates together.

Baltimore's Integrated Planning Framework, moved into an electronic weighted scoring system on CIPAce, is a working example of planning driven by federal requirements.

Municipal water organizations use CIPAce™. The Baltimore Department of Public Works runs its capital planning on the platform, and the San Antonio Water System is among the utility programs managed on CIPAce.

The platform is designed for public sector infrastructure owners, including utilities.

CIPAce™ Enterprise Asset Management manages the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure, from condition assessment and preventive maintenance to replacement planning.

Using lifecycle data, it connects proactive maintenance with long-term reinvestment, which is how a utility keeps underground assets in service without waiting for failure.

A rate case needs defensible, transparent numbers. CIPAce™ produces dashboards and reports on project rankings and optimization based on financial constraints, so stakeholders share one view of why each project is funded.

Automated spending curve projections give the finance team assurance of accurate data.

CIPAce™ works for water utilities, from capital planning and prioritization through delivery and asset management, on one platform.

The Baltimore Department of Public Works manages an annual capital budget exceeding 500 million dollars on CIPAce.

Condition-driven replacement needs current condition data connected to a replacement plan. CIPAce™ Enterprise Asset Management uses lifecycle data to develop replacement plans based on accepted practices like amortization and depreciation.

Regular inspections and condition assessments keep the data current, so replacement is driven by condition rather than age alone.

They outgrow spreadsheets when submissions run into the hundreds each year, quality varies between groups, and funding math has to be exact and defensible. Spreadsheets cannot keep that consistent or auditable.

CIPAce™ moves the work into one weighted, electronic system with automated fund management and a dynamic workflow engine, as the City of Baltimore did.

The EPA Integrated Planning Framework is an approach that lets a community address its Clean Water Act obligations in a prioritized, integrated way, sequencing investments by factors such as condition, cost, and public benefit rather than one mandate at a time.

The City of Baltimore implemented its Integrated Planning Framework on CIPAce™ as a fully electronic weighted scoring system in three months.