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Introduction to gINT
Gary Logan and Ian Joyce
gINT EMEA
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?
Lunch – 12.30 – 13.15
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Note – Coffee Break 11.15 – 11.30
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
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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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Note – Coffee Break 14.30 – 14.45
Brief overview of gINT
• Company started in 1986 by Salvatore Caronna
• Currently over 8000 licenses in 68 countries
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• Acquired by Bentley in October 2009.
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What is gINT
• gINT is a database manager and reporting engine for
subsurface exploration
• Used:
For data storage
For data validation
For data queries
For data reporting
Data sharing with other
programs
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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
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• 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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Target Audience (Who needs gINT)
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
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• Searching for ore bodies and designing civil structures for mine construction.
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Target Audience (Who needs gINT)
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.
• 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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• Structural Engineers
gINT Clients
Transportation and Government Agencies
• 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)
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• 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
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• 32 US State DOTs (96 offices)
gINT Clients
Leading Consultants
• MACTEC
(78 offices)
• AMEC
(73 offices)
• ARUP
(24 offices)
• ATC Associates
• Montgomery Watson Harza
(22 offices)
• PSI
• Stantec (Secor) (22 offices)
• CH2M HILL (16 offices)
• Conestoga-Rovers
• Golder Associates
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• Shaw Group (34 offices)
• Terracon (80 offices)
(18 offices)
• Tetra Tech (28 offices)
• Fugro (28 offices)
• Ramboll
(56 offices)
(25 offices)
• CDM (20 offices)
• Kleinfelder
(23 offices)
• URS Corporation
(56 offices)
• WSP (27 offices)
(39 offices)
(101 offices)
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• AECOM
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1. gINT as Standalone Program
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What is gINT
• gINT is a database manager and reporting engine for
subsurface exploration
• Used:
For data storage
For data validation
For data queries
For data reporting
Data sharing with other
programs
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How subsurface data is managed
• Paper
• Excel
• CAD
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• Database
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How subsurface data is managed (paper)
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Data Collection and Consolidation
Cone Penetration Testing
Electronic Field Data
Paper
Data
PDA
Lab Data
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Other Software
& Formats
Types of subsurface data reports
Data re-usability!
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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
Types of subsurface data reports
Data re-usability!
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Lab reports, tables, graphs and summaries
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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
Raster images
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drawings
(DXF, LandXML, or hand drawn)
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Zones
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2. gINT as Subsurface Data Repository
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What is gINT
• gINT is a database manager and reporting engine for
subsurface exploration
• Used:
For data storage
For data validation
For data queries
For data reporting
Data sharing with other
programs
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Reusing data
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gINT - central repository (Interoperability)
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Powered by Bentley, but can be used as a central repository of subsurface
data by a range of engineering software
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MicroStation
InRoads
MXROAD
GEOPAK
Geo Web Publisher
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gINT – Bentley Interoperability
gINT can supply Logs and Fences (Profiles) to Microstation via DXF.
Data re-usability!
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• MicroStation/Navigator
gINT – Bentley Interoperability
• MicroStation
• InRoads
• MXROADS
• GEOPAK
gINT can supply data for sub-surfaces: Bedrock,
FILL, Water table, etc.
thematic maps (depths, soil classification)
Volume cals: Rock cut, soil replacement
Data re-usability!
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For creating contours, isopach
gINT – Bentley Interoperability
• MicroStation
• InRoads
• MXROADS
gINT can supply data for boring locations (site map), profiles,
sections and 3D visualisation in GEOPAK
Data re-usability!
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• GEOPAK
gINT – Fine Software Interoperability
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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• GEO5 suite
Publish boreholes to Google Earth
• Click on
borehole to
display details
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• Customizable
icons show hole
types or data
characteristics
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gINT for Google Earth
Create .kml files, harvest data, link to logs, reports and images
Data re-usability!
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gINT – Google Earth Interoperability
gINT for ArcGIS add-in
View, report and query gINT data from ArcGIS
Data re-usability!
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gINT – ESRI Interoperability
Which product is right?
• gINT Logs (Logs Only)
• gINT Professional
– All reporting
– MS Access based
– MS SQL Server based
– Includes gINT for ArcGIS
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• gINT Professional Plus
gINT Professional Plus
• Offers centralized data storage,
multi-project reporting and
dramatically extended querying
power.
• Uses MS SQL Server backend, not the MS AccessTM
database used in the standard
versions of gINT
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• Enables users to enforce
consistency across all data
resources.
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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 eSeminars
http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/Events/Live+eSeminars/Civil/Civil+Live+eSeminars.htm
3D Visualization of gINT Subsurface Data in MicroStation
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gINT Integration with InRoads and GEOPAK
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Summary
Why 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
• Data reusability: different reports, export, evaluation
• Data reusability: interoperability with other software
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• Eliminates redundant data entry
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.
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• 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:
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• 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
• 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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• 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.
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• Coordinate Conversions
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• 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)
• 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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• 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:
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• 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.
• 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 has always supported upgrades to the format. Version 4 is
no exception.
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.
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• 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.
• This new capability gives the user the ability, if desired, to
perform data entry with that format as well.
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• Prior to the acquisition gINT had an option to output all reports
using European numeric format.
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• Fence Drapes
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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.
• Existing features along an alignment (rivers, bridges, buildings, roads, etc.).
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• Results of seismic tests (see sample output with shear wave velocities).
Conclusion
• Global Presence in 68 countries
• Local Support - GEO
• Flexible licensing (SELECT Server)
• Flexible and Scalable Solution
• Integration with Bentley and many other products
Pricing
gINT Professional – DKK 5,180 SELECT
gINT Professional Plus – 7,195 SELECT
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gINT Logs – DKK1,290 SELECT