After Bentley Systems acquired the Subsulse Modeling Modeling Seeent by 2021 for $ 1.0 million, CEO Greg Bentley pointed out in 2023 that the potential for providing digital twins subffin data and project planning was only begun to be used in construction.
The Department of Transport and Development of Louisiana (DOTD) has been doing this: migrating its geotechnical data of more than 2,500 projects in the cloud through the open fund software of Seecent. The optimization of geotechnical information is fundamental, taking into account the different climate and geology of the state: rain, subsidence and seasonal hurricanes combined with soft and marshy soils.
“I am a big fan of reaching my data and not reinventing the wheel,” says Dotd Geotechnical Administrator, Jesse Rauser, who played a key role in the transition from his Gint department, a Bentley Geotechnical Data Data and Data Data Data tool. “For example, a product is a [Microsoft] Excel extension. Now I can go and take any boring details I want and leave them on a spreadsheet. I don’t have to recreate it every time. “
The agency can create tools that provide test bores and characterize the site, he adds. “ Another tool is a way to make subffer research.
In a case study for SEQUENT, he added that it costs at least $ 15,000 for boredom of the ground for a bridge foundation, so that preserving data in these boring eliminates the need to review the place and pierce additional holes. “Our boring application form easily saves 30 minutes at an hour on each project and the tools we created to visualize data and statistical analyzes, save at least one hour per project,” he said in the case study.
Seecent says that the example of Dotd “opens the way” for other state transport agencies to do similar work, but do not specify which ones they may try to do. Carl Grice, director of Geotechnical Information Management, says that more than 21,000 users currently use more than 21,000 users, managing more than 6.25 million holes worldwide.
Dotd’s next goal is to incorporate and classify the data and create a public portal, says Rauser. “The taxpayers paid these things, so we would love to do this.”
