U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) divisions use @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite for dam and levee safety, asset management, cost estimation, construction, SMART Planning, regulatory functions, program management, project management, and more.
USACE Provides Engineering Solutions for the U.S’s Toughest Challenges
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is comprised of over 37,000 dedicated civilians and military personnel who deliver engineering services across 130 countries worldwide. With environmental stability as a guiding principle, the Corps is involved in projects as diverse as construction, natural resource management, energy and sustainability, capacity building, and more.
Many USACE division are already using @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite for engineering projects, including the Institute for Water Resources (IWR), the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC), the Risk Management Center (RMC), and USACE divisions in Buffalo, Great Lakes and Ohio River, Hanover, Huntington, Kansas City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Walla Walla. See the Greenup Locks and Dam case study for one example.
Several of the successful applications involve Palisade Custom Development partnering with USACE engineers to build custom software solutions.
USACE Provides Engineering Solutions for the U.S’s Toughest Challenges
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers turned to Palisade Consulting to help incorporate an uncertainty element into dam and levee safety models. Palisade consultants built a tailored @RISK-based application that determines the exposure of each project to loss of life, damage, and structure fragility. The Excel-based model uses @RISK’s Monte Carlo simulation to probabilistically assess potential risk areas.
Stepping Up with Custom Development
With the safety models in place, USACE project leaders also wanted an efficient way to ensure all their engineers could implement Monte Carlo simulation into any new project analysis. Palisade Custom Development added a tailor-made interface to the model, allowing engineers throughout the agency to quickly and easily create models, simulations, and reports in an automated, standardized manner. The solution is used today by USACE for all new dam and levee projects.