The Mississippi Department of Transportation Geotechnical Department has won the 2012 Be Inspired prize for Innovation in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering with their implementation of gINT at Mississippi DOT – (Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.)
The win recognizes how Mississippi DOT used gINT to resolve data management issues.
A disjointed workflow for processing geotechnical field data in the geotechnical and materials departments had resulted in information being archived as Excel or PDF files with no search capabilities. Manual transfer of data between departmental reporting tools also introduced errors.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation implemented gINT to streamline the collection, processing, and storage of geotechnical data for use in boring log reports and GIS applications. The first phase of the project involved creating a geotechnical database structure, report templates, and a gINT subroutine to import existing spreadsheets.
Phase two expanded the database structure to accommodate triaxial test data and reports, and to import external lab data.
Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2012 are listed at Be Inspired Winners.