Participants

Participating standard communities

This GeotechIE project is operated thanks to the collaboration of people from multiple communities.

Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC is an international industry consortium participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards. The geoscience standards, especially GeoSciML have been designed jointly with CGI-IUGS, giving them the status of reference standards for geology. Efforts from OGC have also been made to extend those standards to address the topic of hydrogeology. The result was the standard GroundwaterML2 that is an extension of GeoSciML. The geoscience standards also rely on the ISO19156 standard that is a cross domain model for Observations, Measurements and Sampling.

Contributors from OGC include:

• Mickaël Beaufils, GeoScienceDWG Chairman, GeotechIE Leader, BRGM
• Scott Simmons, OGC Chief Standards Officer
• Kathi Schleidt, OMS SWG co-chair, DataCove
• Hylke van der Schaaf, SensorThingsAPI SWG co-chair, Fraunhofer IOSB

buildingSmart International

bSI is an international organization committed to creating and developing open digital ways of working for the built asset industry. buildingSMART standards help asset owners and the entire supply chain work more efficiently and collaboratively through the entire project and asset lifecycle.The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), ISO 16739, are the official standards for OpenBIM. Major evolutions have been made on them, especially with IFC v4.x, to extend their capacities: IFC 4.0 introduces the extension of IFC from building to infrastructure. IFC 4.3 is having another step forward in the direction of environmental modeling. It introduces the capacity of describing non-man-made objects and also georeferencing. Two major and necessary improvements to envisage the description of geotechnical objects or even earthworks. The IFC Common Schema is identified to offer a cross-infrastructure support to address those domains. Major evolutions in that direction are made through the IFC Tunnel project.

Contributors from bSI include:

• Jonas Weil, IFC Tunnel Geo-Subgroup Leader, IC Group
• Rie Wada, Oyo Company

AGS

AGS is the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists, a UK based trade association established to improve the profile and quality of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. In 1991, the AGS set up a method for transferring data between industry organizations. This is known to many simply as ‘AGS format’ or ‘AGS data format’ and provides a standard way to transfer ground investigation, laboratory testing and monitoring data between the contributing parties of a project which involves geotechnical or geoenvironmental elements. The AGS format has been improved and enhanced over the years and is now widely used in the UK. It has also been adopted and adapted for use in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and parts of the Middle East. More recently, AGS has developed and released AGSi, a new data format for the exchange of ground model and interpreted data in the ground domain. Work is also being carried out on a new format for piling data.

Contributors from AGS include:

• Neil Chadwick, AGS Data Management Working Group
• Tony Daly, AGS Data Management Working Group

DIGGS

DIGGS (Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists) is a special project of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the interchange standard has been adopted as the "Provisional Standard Practice for Digital Interchange of Geotechnical Data" by AASHTO, the association that represents highway and transportation departments across the USA and serves as a liaison between State departments of transportation and the Federal government. DIGGS builds off of the AGS data dictionary for exploratory data, and utilizes existing technologies and standards (eg. XML, GML, WITSML, OMS) in its schema design. Although initially focused on exploratory data collected in US practice, DIGGS supports 1D, 2D, and 3D sampling geometries, any language, and can reference any codes or language conventions, and thus is designed to be extensible and compatible with non-US practice. Beyond exploratory data obtained from boreholes, trenches and outcrops, DIGGS is being extended to exchange field survey geophysical data, construction data from grouting and pile load testing activities, performance monitoring instrumentation, and geo-environmental site monitoring.

Contributors from DIGGS include:

• Dan Ponti, DIGGS Steering Comitee
• Derrick Dasenbrock

Supporting community

ISSMGE TC222

The International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) is the pre-eminent professional body representing the interests and activities of Engineers, Academics and Contractors all over the world that actively participate in geotechnical engineering. The aim of the International Society is the promotion of international co-operation amongst engineers and scientists for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Geotechnics, and its engineering and environmental applications.

Contributors from ISSMGE TC222 include:

• Magnus Romoen, ISSMGE TC222 Chairman, NGI
• Mats Kalstrom, NGI

ITA WG22

The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) aims are to encourage the use of the subsurface for the benefit of public, environment and sustainable development and to promote advances in planning, design, construction, maintenance and safety of tunnels and underground space, by bringing together information thereon and by studying questions related thereto.

WG22 is the Working Group dedicated to information modeling in tunelling.

Contributors from ITA WG22 include:

• Florent Robert, ITA WG22 Animator, CETU

CGI-IUGS

The Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) is a working subcommittee of the International Union of Geological Sciences. Its mission is to enable the global exchange of knowledge about geoscience information and systems. CGI is the governing body responsible for the XML-based exchange languages Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML - in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium) and EarthResource Markup Language (EarthResourceML). The CGI and its members also play a significant role in the OneGeology initiative.

Contributors from ITA WG22 include:

• Harvey Thorleifson, CGI-IUGS Chairman
• Edd Lewis, BGS

EGS UGEG

The Urban Geology Expert Group (UGEG) from EuroGeoSurvey (EGS) delivers high quality scientific information and expertise to the EU’s urban decision-makers and European Institutions in the areas of sustainable urban development, urban resilience, future climate proofing of cities, SMART cities and safe construction.

Contributors from EGS UGEG include:

• Philip Wehrens, SwissTopo
• Teemu Lindqvist, GTK

MINnD

The MINnD National Project in France is since its creation in 2014 is the French initiative to push openBIM extensions for infrastructure description. Majors contributions from MINnD have been brought to the development of IFC Bridge, IFC Road, IFC Rail. IFC Tunnel is largely influenced by the work made by the MINnD Tunnel (WG1-4) and MINnD Geotechnics (WG1-5) projects, that are themselves part of the wider MINnD Underground Infrastructure. MINnD Geotechnics emphasized the importance of building on and connecting existing standards.

Contributors from MINnD include:

• Isabelle Halfon, BRGM
• Sylvie Bretelle, ANTEA
• Elodie Vautherin, Fondasol
• Pierre Garnier, WSP
• Alexis Serieys, SETEC Terrasol
• François Robida, MINnD