What does it do?

Surface water drainage deals with rainfall as it collects around your property. Surface water drainage carries rainwater (and melted snow and ice) from hard surfaces. The above-ground system of gutters and rainwater pipes is referred to as roof drainage; the underground pipework is referred to as surface water drains and surface water sewers.

MasterDRAIN Surface Water is a versatile multi-function program. It is quite possible that an engineer may only rarely use all the facilities available in the program!

DRAINAGE DESIGN ENGINEERS

Those with a developed knowledge of storm water drainage, this program will provide a useful toolbox of routines for designing systems,
calculating storage, surcharging a system and many more aspects of design. Ease and speed of use were the main criteria when writing this program..

ARCHITECTS

The program will allow a non-specialist to design a drainage system and test it. Data may be exported as a DXF file for use in CAD packages. Using the Autogradient option, the only data required for a successful design is the area drained, length and identifier for each section.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

This program may be used to check submitted designs, or to supply local hydrological data to design engineers.

EDUCATIONALISTS

Civil Engineering or Building Services students will find this program invaluable as an introduction to storm water drainage design.