Keynetix鈥檚 cloud-based geotechnical knowledge management system is already used to capture and manage underground environment information for Bentley鈥檚 geotechnical analysis applications, Plaxis and SoilVision; it supplements borehole reports managed by Bentley software.
Bentley sees the addition of Keynetix鈥檚 cloud-based software as expanding Bentley鈥檚 geotechnical offerings and accelerates its vision of enabling the creation of subsurface 鈥榙igital twins鈥� of infrastructure projects and assets. The creation and curation of subsurface digital twins involves modelling the underground environment - geology, hydrology, chemistry, and engineering properties, and the underground infrastructure - and utility networks, structures, and tunnels 鈥� and then analysing and simulating the subsurface behaviour.
Roger Chandler, managing director of Keynetix, said: 鈥淭oday's announcement provides our team, customers, and partners with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance digital engineering in the geotechnical industry. At Keynetix, our mission has always been to make geotechnical data more broadly accessible and valuable. Today鈥檚 announcement will truly open up geotechnical data collaboration across Bentley, Autodesk, and other platforms.鈥�
Mark Bevan, associate director, ground investigation data systems for UK-based Structural Soils, a member of the RSK Group, said that Bentley and Keynetix software platforms are core, business-critical tools within its ground investigation (GI) businesses. He described the acquisition of Keynetix鈥檚 software into the Bentley portfolio as an exciting landmark moment within the GI digital landscape. 鈥淭he rapidly growing Bentley geotechnical platform is helping to maximize the potential positives of the digital shift we are experiencing within the GI workplace,鈥� he said. 鈥淕round investigation is truly going digital.鈥�
Bob Mankowski, vice president and business unit executive of digital cities for Bentley Systems, said: 鈥淚nfrastructure professionals know that the geologic, hydrologic, chemical and engineering properties of a potential project site, and the infrastructure assets buried beneath the soil, roads, and other structures represent some of the greatest risks to infrastructure project safety, budgets, and schedules. Having a subsurface digital twin 鈥� a 3D representation of the subsurface coupled with models to analyse and simulate behaviuor 鈥� will be immensely valuable in all phases of the asset lifecycle.鈥� He said that the Keynetix team and technology bring decades of experience and cutting-edge cloud services to Bentley鈥檚 already strong geotechnical portfolio and will accelerate the progress of Bentley鈥檚 vision for subsurface digital twins.
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