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2 March 2022 I am incredibly proud and humbled to be taking over as Director of Watercom from today, as part of Watercom’s transfer of ownership to Kustom Engineering Pty Ltd. In my role as Watercom’s manager over the last three…

2 February 2022 We are pleased to announce that from Wednesday, 2 March 2022, Watercom Pty Limited will be transferring the ongoing development, sales and support of the DRAINS, PIPES and PIPES++ software to Kustom Engineering Pty Ltd, led by…

28 June 2021 We have implemented a "work from home" temporary online License Management Server to assist organisations during this challenging time. We are making it available as an optional subscription for customers with active maintenance plans to help businesses…

25 May 2021 A new version of DRAINS is available that adds the option for bigger buttons on the toolbar to better suit high-resolution screens. Download now.

6 May 2021 Kustom Engineering is excited to release two new e-learning course options: Introduction to DRAINS E-Learning Covers 2 hours of Chapters 1 & 2 from the full 15-hour DRAINS E-Learning Course 2 Hours Continuing Professional Development Points Free…

We are receiving enquiries about the impact of Innovyze recently discontinuing XPRAFTS and how this will affect DRAINS RAFTS. RAFTS is one of many hydrological models available in DRAINS. Watercom developed the RAFTS Hydrological model equations in DRAINS using the…

A new version of DRAINS is available that allows users to lock pit loss coefficient (Ku) values when revising coefficients, useful when modelling GPT devices. The former Premium hydraulic model has now been renamed to the 'Full unsteady hydraulic model', while…

Kustom Engineering is excited to announce our online DRAINS & ARR E-Learning platform.   24 August 2020 Due to COVID-19 restrictions currently in place, we have recently launched online interactive DRAINS webinars. These webinars cover the same material as the…

A new version of DRAINS is available that improves multi-core processing.