The ISIS by Halcrow team would like to thank you for your continued support and wish all of our users a happy New Year! To help make the start of 2010 even better, Halcrow is offering all of the subscribers to this newsletter an exclusive discount. We will discount all of our scheduled and bespoke training courses by 10% between January and June 2010.

Our set training courses are run from the Halcrow Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Swindon and London offices. Alternatively, we can organise a bespoke and specifically tailored course to be run from your office. For more information on the training courses offered by Halcrow, download our training flyer or visit our website.

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ISIS 2D was released in June 2009 and has continued to develop a strong user base. Sales go from strength to strength with purchases from both the business and academic community. Recent purchasers of the software include British Waterways and the University of Sheffield.

ISIS 2D is a fully hydrodynamic computational engine designed to work either standalone or within the ISIS suite of products. ISIS 2D enables dynamic interaction between ISIS Professional (1D) and ISIS 2D and is the latest addition to the ISIS by Halcrow suite of products.

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Not only do ISIS users gain valuable information when using the ISIS user website, but for every contribution made to the site, a donation is made to WaterAid and the Halcrow Foundation. Users gain points by interacting with the ISIS user website, posting on the forum, commenting on items, posting and voting on ideas and downloading ISIS Free.

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Thank you to everybody that attended the ISIS User Conference on 11th November at Arup’s office in Bristol. Once again, the conference was a great success with approximately 100 ISIS users in attendance.

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In addition to Halcrow being the sole UK based agent for WBM, the developers of TUFLOW, anybody purchasing software and/or support through Halcrow will have access to our UK based technical team who can be contacted through our dedicated support telephone number (0845 094 7994) and email (tuflow@halcrow.com).

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Many of you will be familiar with the concept of running a batch of models one after another. This is done using the Batch Simulation option on the Run menu. A series of ISIS Control Files (.IEF) are loading into the ISIS Run Scheduler Form and when instructed ISIS will then run one after another. In this month’s Tip of the Month Halcrow’s Mark Bailes introduces the concept of ISIS Event Files (.IED) which can assist running the same model with different boundary conditions. 

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Flood mapping using GIS applications plays a key role in calculating and communicating flood risk information. In less than two decades the technology has moved from manual drawing to a sophisticated and automated process in which modelling and mapping are integrated. In this article Rahman Khatibi outlines the evolution of integrated flood modelling and mapping, highlighting some of the opportunities and barriers to further progress.

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