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Novapoint GeoSuite Toolbox offers a wide range of tools for geotechnical engineers for the modelling and presentation of ground investigations. The program pack is the result of a Norwegian/Swedish cooperation financed by NFR and via funds provided by the Norwegian project partners in the GeoSuite project. The partners represent both the private, public, university and college environments within geotechnical engineering in Norway and include NGI, Multiconsult, The Directorate of Public Roads, GeoVita, NTNU and SINTEF and the IT companies Vianova Systems AS, Vianova GeoSuite AB and the AutoGRAF association in Sweden. The AutoGRAF association brings together around 90% of the geotechnical environment in Sweden. The project began with phase 1 which started in 2003 and has moved on from 1 January 2007 to phase 2, which will be completed in 2009. 4
Jan Ludvigsson, Vianova GeoSuite Vianova GeoSuite AB is the company in the Vianova network which has geotechnical engineering as its competence area. The company is located in Stockholm and manages and carries out the majority of the programming work. It is linked to the ViaNova network through ViaNova Systems AS, which is co-owner of the company. The AutoGRAF user association and the GeoSuite project in Norway are represented on the company’s board, to ensure high technical understanding and competence. The GeoSuite project has, through bringing together cooperative partners both in Sweden and Norway, succeeded in creating new products and in further developing existing products to become the complete and powerful program package Novapoint GeoSuite Toolbox, which is designed specifically for the professional geotechnical engineering environment in Scandinavia. Novapoint GeoSuite Toolbox consists of GS Presentation for data administration and for the presentation of geotechnical investigations and the four calculation programs GS Stability for stability calculations, GS Settlement for settlement calculations, GS Pile Groups for pile group calculations and GS Supported Excavations for sheet pile calculations. The first version was launched in the summer of 2006 and since then the program package has been extensively adopted both in Sweden and Norway. All large players in the market are customers. We can, in addition to the project partners, mention customers such as Rambøll, WSP, Sweco VBB and the Swedish Road Administration. Parts of the program package have been used in project work and education at for example NTNU and Chalmers. More than 300 licences have been sold in Sweden and Norway. The number of users is however much more than this figure indicates, as most licences are network licences. Courses are offered at several locations in Norway and Sweden. In Sweden alone more than 770 participants have taken part in settlement calculation courses so far in 2007. 7 GEOSUITE TOOLBOx GS (GeoSuite) Toolbox has a simple program superstructure which handles general project data, GS Archive, in which new assignments/projects are set up. Project handling maintains control of your project and shows what has been completed in the project, which documents are included in the project and starts the tools which are required to carry out calculations and data administration. The central product in the program package is GS Presentation. All geotechnical investigations which are carried out in a project are saved and administered here. Data is normally input via raw data files from field investigations, which is then presented in AutoCAD/Novapoint after being edited. GS Presentation is integrated with Novapoint Roads and Terrain, which makes it a rational tool for the geotechnical engineer in day to day operations. Data is processed, interpreted and transferred to the road and terrain model in GS Presentation, which in turn means that geotechnical profiles can recover data in the form of calculated models of (for example) rock surfaces in a profile. The rock profile can be generated with data from the geotechnics, but also from other data sources such as maps, surveying data, interpreted orthophotos etc. GS Presentation replaces the earlier product GeoPlot as from version 17. 7 This however means that old data no longer can be used. Old data can be input into new projects directly from existing GeoPlot projects. The calculation program can be used as a free standing calculation program without the use of AutoCAD without problem. However, links to Novapoint can be used to obtain valuable information and help to retrieve geometry in the form of terrain models and borehole profiles as the basis for building up soil type model at a calculation point. INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE? For more information, visit Novapoint’s web site! Contact person details and product sheets, course information, user support and other information are also available here. Go to: www.novapoint.no, or www.novapoint.se If you want to find out more about geotechnics in Novapoint, please contact: Kristin Lysebo, Vianova Systems AS, Sandvika, Norway, tlf (+47) 67 81 70 00 e-mail: kristin.lysebo@vianova.no or Jan Ludvigsson, Vianova GeoSuite AB, Solna, Sweden, tlf (+46) 08-27 69 90 e-mail: jan.ludvigsson@geosuite.se 5
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