Comprehensive engineering, hydraulic calculations, and structural design considerations for optimal siphonic roof drainage performance.
The accurate and technically advanced HydroTechnic™ analytical design software program has been developed with the ability to accurately calculate the hydraulics of a piping system to ensure high-performance siphonic flow.
HydroTechnic™ also allows you to combine different pipe materials even within a single piping system. This offers additional aesthetic or technical benefits to the building design team. The software's compliance with BS EN 12056-3:2000 performance requirements has been independently tested by HR Wallingford.
Furthermore, HydroTechnic™ enables designs that are fully compliant with the latest standards, including Singapore Standard SS 525:2006, British Standard BS 8490:2007, and ASPE/ANSI 45:2013 Plumbing Engineering and Design Standard. The HydroTechnic™ analytical design program has been further developed to provide design engineers with easy access to the piping program over the internet. Once users register, they can access the program from anywhere and at any time via their login name and password.
Allowing for accurate calculations, HydroTechnic™ is the essential design tool for sizing siphonic pipes. Siphonic systems are a designed solution to the problem of building roof drainage, and it is important that the pipework is correctly sized.
When multiple roof drains are connected via a horizontal collector pipe, the available head at each roof drain must be the same if they are to carry equal flow rates. The driving head is determined by the difference in water level between the roof drain and the discharge point.
HydroMax® systems are always correctly balanced to ensure safe operation under all conditions. If the resistance of the roof drain is very low and insufficient water is supplied, it will cause air to enter the pipes, and this will result in a loss of time at the start of operation. HydroTechnic™ eliminates this possibility and ensures that optimum design performance is achieved at all times.
