Bedrock.engineer aims to make subsurface data more accessible and understandable, driving innovation in geotechnical engineering. This leads to better understanding of ground conditions, lower project risks, and better designs.
Geotechnical engineering faces interconnected challenges that create real risks for construction projects:
Subsurface data is hard to access and use. Ground investigation data stays locked in specialized formats or proprietary databases with limited support outside sector-specific software. You can't easily visualize what's underground or integrate it with design tools teams already use. This leads to underestimated ground risks, cost overruns, and project delays when unexpected conditions emerge.
Workflows are fragmented and opaque. Geotechnical work is scattered across too many disconnected tools, making it difficult to automate, reproduce, or explain decisions to other disciplines. To structural engineers and BIM teams, the process appears as a black box. When workflows are manual and document-based, exploring design alternatives becomes impractical.
The ecosystem stifles innovation. Lack of interoperability means advances from related fields, geospatial computing, data science, academic research, don't transfer to geotechnical practice. Engineers reinvent solutions that exist elsewhere, and computational design approaches common in other disciplines remain out of reach.
We make data structured and connected. Ground investigation data has natural relationships: projects contain locations, locations have tests and samples, samples have lab results. We transform GI data from fragmented files (AGS, GEF, Excel) into structured geospatial databases that preserve these connections. Projects, boreholes, samples, and tests stay validated and queryable.
We make data flow to where you need it. We convert GI data into open geospatial formats that work across the entire GIS and by extension, BIM ecosystem. Data can be used in GIS software (ArcGIS & QGIS), web maps, and design tools like Rhino3D & Civil3D.
We make subsurface data visualizable in context. By recognizing GI data as 3D spatial data, you can visualize borehole logs, CPT data, and ground models alongside building designs, site plans, and infrastructure in web browsers, GIS software, and BIM platforms.
We build tools that make people smart. Visualization makes subsurface data tangible and intuitive, helping engineers and stakeholders understand, communicate, and make better decisions. When ground conditions are visualized in context with your designs, understanding becomes immediate, and you can explain it to collaborators across disciplines.