FAIR Geotechnical data to support BIM for Underground Infrastructure

Mickaël Beaufils (1) , N Hassan (2) , C Galandrin (3) , P Miraillet (4) , B Le Hello (5) , Isabelle Halfon (1)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 SETEC
3 CAN
4 EDF-DIPNN-DI-TEGG, Aix-en-Provence
5 EGIS

In France, the MINnD Project aims at extending Building Information Modeling (BIM) capacities to describe infrastructures such as roads, bridges, railways, tunnels and geotechnics. The MINnD working group GT1-5 is dedicated to Geotechnics, especially in an underground infrastructure construction context. Such activity leads to the proposal of a conceptual data model and appropriate vocabularies to describe the geotechnical conditions. Those deliverables contribute to the specification of international standards for openBIM (as part of the buildingSmart International IFC Tunnel project) and in openGIS (Open Geospatial Consortium standards) in connection with existing practices (AFTES recommendation). MINnD GT1-5 then enables to organize the provision of geological and geotechnical data compliant with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). Such level of interoperability is necessary to envisage the definition of a Digital Twin of the environment of an Underground Infrastructure and its sustainable management.

Keywords: Geotechnical data; Building Information Modeling; Data interchange; Interoperability

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Information Theory [cs.IT]; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Engineering; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences

Mickaël Beaufils, N Hassan, C Galandrin, P Miraillet, B Le Hello, et al.. FAIR Geotechnical data to support BIM for Underground Infrastructure. World Tunnel Congress 2022, Sep 2022, Copenhague, Denmark. ⟨hal-03644840⟩