Kleinfelder’s IT Team Stands-Out as an Innovative Thought Leader in the AEC Industry

February 26, 20180

Partnerships with IT are essential to developing and implementing innovative technology solutions that increase the efficiency of overall operations and project work.  Kleinfelder’s Corporate Services Group (which includes IT services) has been instrumental in applying new technologies, such as gINT® Professional Plus (gINT® is a graphically enabled database used for storing and reporting subsurface exploration data commonly used in the Geotechnical and Environmental practices), to streamline software and license management, enhance file management, and increase efficiencies with field data collection.  The team’s successful application of gINT® was recently recognized by Bentley Software.  In the pursuit of providing guidance on the use of gINT® Professional Plus, Bentley corporate leaders contacted Kleinfelder to present on Bentley Software’s Special Interest Group (SIG) call.  The SIG is a monthly call, hosted by Bentley Software, that provides a platform for global users to see what the user community has accomplished with various software applications.

Todd McKenney of the Colorado Springs office and member of Kleinfelder’s Corporate Services group, presented on the February 7th, 2018 Special Interest Group (SIG) call.  The presentation, entitled “gINT® Professional Plus – A Kleinfelder Success Story” illustrated how partnerships between IT and operations, developing global standards, and embracing technologies can improve efficiency, consistency and workload sharing. Benefits of Kleinfelder’s enterprise architecture and how it supports automation and innovative solutions such as FieldNET, Kleinfelder’s field data collection solution, were also discussed during the presentation.

Kleinfelder’s unique deployment of gINT has resulted in several significant benefits:

  • Software and License Management
    • Reduced 150+ individual licenses to 20 network licenses shared by all
    • Streamlined support model of 2 Cloud Servers vs 100’s of individual installs.  No more rollouts!
  • File Management
    • 5,000 individual gINT® files combined into 1 global shared database
    • Standardized 500+ local templates into 1 corporate template and library
  • Simple Systems Architecture
    • Global users launch gINT® from Cloud Servers connected to the central database
  • Data Analytics and integration with other tools
    • FieldNet – Kleinfelder’s field data collection service
    • GIS – geospatial mapping of gINT® data
    • Power BI – dashboard for data visualization and analytics

The greatest success is Field to Finish in minutes. Using Kleinfelder’s FieldNET service, project staff can collect data in the field and, within two minutes of submitting data into Kleinfelder’s cloud service, fully formatted gINT® reports are emailed to project teams with no human interaction. The old manual method took half a day to a full day.  Viewers on the call were excited and wanted to learn more about how to implement the solution.

This presentation was well received by the gINT® community. Participants ranged from locations such as the United States, Turkey, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and more.  This innovative solution has sparked significant worldwide attention according to Bentley’s gINT® Program Manager Katie Aguilar.

Kleinfelder. Bright People. Right Solutions. Founded in 1961, Kleinfelder is a leading engineering, design, construction management, construction materials inspection and testing, and environmental professional services firm.  Kleinfelder now employs more than 2,200 professionals and operates from over 75 office locations in the United States, Canada, and Australia.  The company is headquartered in San Diego, California.  Poised for growth, Kleinfelder continues to provide high-quality solutions for our diverse client base.  Visit Kleinfelder.com or follow us on LinkedIn/Kleinfelder.