Versatile estimating software offers geotechnical engineers gains in many areas

CloudPiling was founded with a clear mission: to provide deep foundation engineers and geotechnical consulting firms with improved performance by greatly automating repetitive operations. This allows users to make data-driven decisions. With a thoughtful and comprehensive cloud platform, the Roeselare, Belgium-based company is putting a definitive end to time-consuming calculations in multiple tools and Excel spreadsheets. 

With the software package of the same name, CloudPiling provides a calculation platform that offers the geotechnical world everything it needs. Especially when it comes to quickly and accurately calculating and visualizing pile foundations, earth retaining walls and anchors. "Several case studies show that using the parametric calculation model, engineers find solutions with an average of 30% less concrete and steel. This represents an incredible gain in terms of CO₂-emissions," says Vanhove. Zwaenepoel adds: "It was a conscious decision not to build api's into the computational heart of CloudPiling, because we want to be able to offer the highest computational comfort to our customers in both the short and long term." 

Best practices embedded in database 

One of the enthusiastic users of CloudPiling is BodemBouw, provider of total solutions in building pits and specializing in making CSM walls. The Uden-based company has deliberately chosen one technique with the starting point of achieving the most optimal design and execution for each project. Managing director Oskar de Kok: "Because a lot of time was lost in interacting between different programs, processing data and compiling reports, we had been looking for years for a software partner that could help us optimize CSM calculations. With CloudPiling, we found it." The company managed to convince De Kok in several respects. "Specifically for CSM, the iteration process is even more intensive because of the interaction between stiffness and strength. Within CloudPiling, this interaction is perfectly built in. In addition, the application makes it possible to work with both profiles and reinforcement baskets and automatically generate reports with a translation to bills of materials. Finally, building from a project history is very interesting for the CSM technique, because the final compressive strength of the CSM material depends partly on the local soil."

Nice savings in time and money 

Geo- and foundation specialist Hektec from Southeast Beemster is also utilizing the many benefits of the estimation platform. "For the entire process, from pile design to delivery of the pile file, we within the Hek Group investigated which processes needed to align and which software was available on the market for this purpose," says Teamleader Engineering Arie-Jan Tol. "For the design process we then ended up with CloudPiling, for us a completely justified choice. Simply because we not only advise, but also think along with the implementation. This is precisely what makes CloudPiling so useful and powerful for us. In addition, there is a project and CRM link, allowing CloudPiling to be built into the Hek Group's existing structure. CloudPiling also generates the material quantities for execution. This allows us to skip an entire step in the process in the near future. That will result in nice savings. In time and money. Finally, the cooperation is also very nice. They think along and respond quickly."