Smarter investment planning for complex water and wastewater networks

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Maximise value

Plan for resilience

Value public outcomes

Target net zero

Embed climate thinking

Include uncertainty

Maximise value

Plan for resilience

Value public outcomes

Target net zero

Embed climate thinking

Include uncertainty

Water & Wastewater

Water companies face intense and growing pressure. Ageing infrastructure, climate-related risks, population growth, and increasingly stringent regulation all place new demands on capital planning, while customers and regulators expect improved outcomes, greater efficiency, and full transparency.

The challenge: how to make the most of limited capital and operating budgets, while delivering measurable improvements in service, resilience, and environmental impact.

That's where AIM delivers value.

Purpose-built for long-term planning and regulatory alignment.

AIM is used by leading water utilities to plan and prioritise investment across all asset types — from buried distribution networks to treatment works. It helps organisations justify funding decisions, meet regulatory expectations, and build robust asset strategies that align with frameworks such as the Common Framework, DWMP, Asset Management Plans, Water Resources Planning, Asset Health, and OFWAT's regulatory price review requirements.

Instead of relying on static spreadsheets, top down analysis, or even rules of thumb, AIM enables precise, scenario-based planning at the individual asset level — combining condition, cost, criticality, and risk in a unified platform.

How AIM supports the water and wastewater sector.

Optimises asset interventions to reduce service failures, leakage, pollution, and environmental risk

Models long-term investment needs under varying budgets, policies, and performance constraints and scenarios

Builds regulator-ready business plans with full transparency, traceability, and justifiable assumptions

Quantifies risk and value across options - enabling defensible trade-offs between cost, service, and carbon

Supports strategic and tactical planning from 40-year investment programmes to short-term delivery optimisation

Adapts to changing landscapes - including climate change, stakeholder expectations, environmental concerns, and regulatory drivers

Incorporates uncertainty, using it to generate confidence intervals around performance and budget measures to help manage risk tolerances, climate change, financial exposure, and the value of data improvement

“AIM has maintained itself at the forefront of innovation and we are continually impressed by the flexibility, power, and speed of AIM.
From becoming a first adopter in 2011, we have now significantly expanded the use of AIM to nearly all our asset base, including Trunk Mains, Distribution Mains, water resource planning, wastewater infrastructure (1.3 million assets) and above ground non-infrastructure assets.”

In use: Planning across the full asset base

From water mains to pumping stations, AIM helps planners understand when, where, and how to invest. Teams use it to develop long-term plans, stress-test scenarios, and ensure that investment aligns with customer outcomes and regulatory drivers.

Utilities like Thames Water and South West Water have embedded AIM into their business-as-usual planning cycle using it to, amongst other applications, build AMP7 and AMP8 investment plans, and manage trunk main renewal programmes.

AIM enables

•Confident investment planning under uncertainty
•Clear, evidence-based decision-making
•Improved resilience and reduced risk exposure
•Better outcomes at lower whole-life cost

Whether you're building your business plan, defending it to stakeholders, or delivering it in practice — AIM gives you the insight and control to do it better.

Get in touch

If you are a Water / Wastewater asset owner, or a consulting firm advising the sector on asset value optimisation and investment strategy, let us show you the difference AIM could make.

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