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Gary Logan and Ian JoycegINT EMEA

Introduction to gINT

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Agenda – Morning Session (10.15 – 12.30)

• Introduction to gINT software• What is gINT?• Who uses gINT?• What problems does gINT address?

• gINT integration with other Bentley products

• gINT support for enterprise subsurface data management

• The next release gINT V8i - What is included?

Note – Coffee Break 11.15 – 11.30

Lunch – 12.30 – 13.15

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Agenda – Afternoon Session (13:15 – 15.45)

Open Discussion

• What’s the next step?

• Data exchange and transfer of existing datasets from/to gINT

• Localization of gINT. Standard Templates etc. for Denmark

• Training. What’s needed to get started?

• Knowledge sharing – work group under the Bentleyuser.dk Civil SIG?

Note – Coffee Break 14.30 – 14.45

gINT in Denmark • Examples of onshore and offshore gINT logs that have been

developed by Jens Galsgaard and Stine Fogh from GEO

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Brief overview of gINT

• Company started in 1986 by Salvatore Caronna

• Currently over 8000 licenses in 68 countries

• Acquired by Bentley in October 2009.

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What is gINT

• Used:– For data storage– For data validation– For data queries– For data reporting– Data sharing with other

programs

• gINT is a database manager and reporting engine for subsurface exploration

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Target Audience (Who needs gINT)

Anyone who investigates the subsurface or utilizes subsurface data could use gINT.

• Because gINT is reporting engine and manages data it is used as a standalone program for subsurface reporting by primary users

• Because gINT is database it is used as a subsurface data repository (geotechnical and geoenvironmental) by subsurface data consumers – secondary users

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Primary gINT users (use gINT as standalone software) are:

• Geotechnical Engineers and Engineering Geologists• Treat soil and rock as engineering materials to be analyzed for the design of

civil structures (foundations, slope stability, retaining walls, tunnels, etc.).

• Environmental Scientists• Investigate what hazardous/polluting materials are underground and how to

implement site remediation.

• Mining Specialists• Searching for ore bodies and designing civil structures for mine construction.

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Secondary gINT users (subsurface data consumers) are:

• GIS Analysts• Display subsurface data on the map in terms of point/location/borehole

attributes, exposing gINT data within GIS environment, calling for borehole logs, subsurface profiles and other reports directly from GIS environment.

• Civil Engineers• In road design and land development to determine and model subsurface

strata such as bottom of fill and top of bedrock, create thematic maps, calculate volumes, create isopachs, etc.

• Structural Engineers• In determining soil properties for analysis of soil-structure interaction and

foundations

• Water Resources, Hydraulic and Hydrologic Testing• Determine subsurface strata, Hydrologic soils designation on topography

maps, hydraulic conductivity, etc.

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gINT Clients

• 32 US State DOTs (96 offices)

• US Army Corps of Engineers(36 offices)

• US Bureau of Reclamation(13 offices)

• USDA NRCS (11 offices)

• US Geological Survey

• EPA

• Federal Highways Administration(3 offices)

• 6 Canadian Provincial Ministries of

Transportation

• Agriculture Canada

• UK Local Authorities including Cornwall,

Lancashire, and Leeds

• Queensland Main Roads Department, Australia

• Roads & Traffic Authority, NSW, Australia

• NSW Department of Water and Energy, Australia

Transportation and Government Agencies

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gINT Clients

• AECOM (78 offices)

• AMEC (73 offices)

• ARUP (24 offices)

• ATC Associates (25 offices)

• CDM (20 offices)

• CH2M HILL (16 offices)

• Conestoga-Rovers (18 offices)

• Fugro (28 offices)

• Golder Associates (56 offices)

• Kleinfelder (39 offices)

• Ramboll

• MACTEC (23 offices)

• Montgomery Watson Harza (22 offices)

• PSI (56 offices)

• Stantec (Secor) (22 offices)

• Shaw Group (34 offices)

• Terracon (80 offices)

• Tetra Tech (28 offices)

• URS Corporation (101 offices)

• WSP (27 offices)

Leading Consultants

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1. gINT as Standalone Program

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What is gINT


programs


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How subsurface data is managed

• Paper

• Excel

• CAD

• Database

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How subsurface data is managed (paper)

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Data Collection and Consolidation

PDAElectronic Field Data

Other Software& Formats

ConePenetrationT

Lab Data

Paper Data

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Borehole logs and well logs

Types of subsurface data reports

Data re-usability!

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Fences, cross-sections/profiles


Data re-usability!

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Lab reports, tables, graphs and summaries


Data re-usability!

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Reports

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Reports

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Site Maps

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Smart Reports

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Complex reporting Data re-usability!

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Surfaces

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Surfaces

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Alignments

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Alignments

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Associate site maps with projects

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drawings(DXF, LandXML, or hand drawn) Raster images

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Zones

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2. gINT as Subsurface Data Repository

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What is gINT


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Reusing data

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gINT - central repository (Interoperability)• Powered by Bentley, but can be used as a central repository of subsurface data by a

range of engineering softwareMicroStation

InRoadsMXROADGEOPAK

Geo Web Publisher

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gINT – Bentley Interoperability

• MicroStation/Navigator

gINT can supply Logs and Fences (Profiles) to Microstation via DXF.

Data re-usability!

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• MicroStation

• InRoads

• MXROADS

• GEOPAK

gINT can supply data for sub-surfaces: Bedrock,

FILL, Water table, etc.

For creating contours, isopach

thematic maps (depths, soil classification)

Volume cals: Rock cut, soil replacement

Data re-usability!

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• MicroStation

• InRoads

• MXROADS

• GEOPAK

gINT can supply data for boring locations (site map), profiles,

sections and 3D visualisation in GEOPAK

Data re-usability!

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gINT – Fine Software Interoperability

• GEO5 suite

gINT can supply subsurface data to GEO5, geotech software package for

foundation design, sheet piling design, retaining wall design, stability analysis,

settlement analysis and FEM analysis.

Data re-usability!

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Publish boreholes to Google Earth

• Click on borehole to display details

• Customizable icons show hole types or data characteristics

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gINT – Google Earth Interoperability

gINT for Google Earth

Create .kml files, harvest data, link to logs, reports and images

Data re-usability!

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gINT – ESRI Interoperability

gINT for ArcGIS add-in

View, report and query gINT data from ArcGIS

Data re-usability!

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Which product is right?

• gINT Logs (Logs Only)

• gINT Professional

– All reporting

– MS Access based

• gINT Professional Plus

– MS SQL Server based

– Includes gINT for ArcGIS

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gINT Professional Plus

• Offers centralized data storage, multi-project reporting and dramatically extended querying power.

• Uses MS SQL Server back- end, not the MS AccessTM database used in the standard versions of gINT

• Enables users to enforce consistency across all data resources.

gINT Professional Plus

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Reference Materials

• gINT Web site (www.bentley.com/gINT)

• gINT OnDemand eSeminars:http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/Events/OnDemand/gINT+OnDemand+eSeminars.htm

• Live Civil eSeminarshttp://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/Events/Live+eSeminars/Civil/Civil+Live+eSeminars.htm

– 3D Visualization of gINT Subsurface Data in MicroStation

– gINT Integration with InRoads and GEOPAK

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SummaryWhy gINT and a Good Database is Necessary

• Centralizes control of your subsurface data (field and lab)

• Standardizes storage and reporting

• Improves data accuracy/quality (QA/QC)

• Automates complex data management processes

• Transforms raw data into information via reports

• Eliminates redundant data entry

• Data reusability: different reports, export, evaluation

• Data reusability: interoperability with other software

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The Next Release gINT V8i – What is included?

• Expected release by the end of Q1 2011

• This release marks the end of the second phase of the integration with Bentley. The first phase was completed with an update released in June 2010. That release incorporated SELECTserver licensing and was the first build available from SELECTserver downloads.

• Last major release was September 2008.

• Over 100 new capabilities in the V8i release.

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gINT V8i

ProjectWise Integration:• Except for a few places where it was not appropriate, everywhere

in gINT where a file can be opened or saved the user can select to use ProjectWise.

• This gives a central repository for all files related to gINT which would be stored with all other files related to the user’s projects.

• The most common uses for this feature by our users:• Electronic data files that are imported into the gINT database.

• Raster images (photos, aerial photos, etc.) that are also imported into the gINT database.

• Exported final reports from gINT: PDF, DGN, Excel, KML (Google Earth), and data for import to analysis programs.

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gINT V8i

• DGN (Bentley Design File) Export• Allows export of all reports and gINT drawings to MicroStation and

many other programs that support DGN.• This supersedes the use of the gINT DXF (v12) export format that

our users have been using for many years. The DGN export eliminates the main complaints of that format: Inaccurate font translations and the inability to set entity properties by level.

• The most common use for this feature by our users is to import gINT reports into final design drawings, usually for roads and bridges.

• ECW Support• Enhanced Compression Wavelet files are highly compressed

raster images that are very fast to render. They are also geocoded, that is, the location of the image is embedded within the file.

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gINT V8i

• Coordinate Conversions• gINT has incorporated the MicroStation coordinate conversion

libraries.• Allows users to specify a project coordinate system. Entering

North and East coordinates generates corresponding WGS84 Latitude and Longitude and visa versa.

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gINT V8i

• Coordinate Conversions (continued)• With output using an SQL Server database with multiple projects

that have different coordinate systems, the program automatically resolves their coordinates to a common system.

• The most common uses of this feature by our users:• For many organizations borehole locations are many times surveyed using

GPS devices which give only latitude and longitude. gINT needs projected coordinates to accurately plot features in plan (site maps) and profile (fence diagrams). A utility feature provides a list of projected systems that cover any specified latitude and longitude. Selecting one of these project systems for the project coordinate system, the latitude and longitudes can be entered and the north and east automatically calculated by the program.

• Organizations may have two or more adjacent projects with different coordinate systems and they would like to run reports on the combined projects. The new feature allows such reporting to occur with accurate relative locations of the boreholes.

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gINT V8i

• AGS4 Support

• In 1992 the UK Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (a trade organization; www.ags.org.uk) published the first version of a data interchange format for geotechnical and geoenvironmental investigations. gINT was the first program that supported it.

• gINT has always supported upgrades to the format. Version 4 is no exception.

• The format has spread to Ireland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and the Middle East and is required by consultants from these countries doing work throughout the world.

• With many consultants and government agencies all work requires the use of the format.

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gINT V8i

• Deviated Borehole Support

• Deviated boreholes are holes not drilled in a straight line. The bearing and plunge of the hole can change with depth.

• The AGS4 format supports deviated holes so therefore gINT must support them as well.

• In addition, this is a very important feature for the mining industry.

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gINT V8i

• European Numeric Data Entry

• gINT does require that the user’s system regional settings be configured with a period as the decimal separator. The program will automatically changes those settings if they are not correct and return them to their original configuration on program termination.

• Most continental European countries use a comma as the decimal separator.

• Prior to the acquisition gINT had an option to output all reports using European numeric format.

• This new capability gives the user the ability, if desired, to perform data entry with that format as well.

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gINT V8i• Fence Drapes

• Drawing application tied to the project where graphics depicting features in elevation along a line (straight, zig zagged, or curved).

• These can be placed on a 2D fence report. The program performs the appropriate projection calculations for accurate display.

• As many drapes as desired can be placed on a report

• The main uses for this feature are:

• Interpreted layering geometry.

• Results of seismic tests (see sample output with shear wave velocities).

• Existing features along an alignment (rivers, bridges, buildings, roads, etc.).

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Conclusion• Global Presence in 68 countries

• Local Support - GEO

• Flexible licensing (SELECT Server)

• Flexible and Scalable Solution

• Integration with Bentley and many other products

PricinggINT Logs – DKK1,290 SELECT

gINT Professional – DKK 5,180 SELECT

gINT Professional Plus – 7,195 SELECT

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