Building rail with BIM

FIRM: Rambøll Sweco ANS

PROJECT: InterCity Dovrebanen—Sørli-Lillehammer

LOCATION:  Norway

OWNER: Jernbaneverket/Norwegian National Rail Administration (NNRA)

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The paradigm shift requiring purely 3D model based project delivery instead of traditional 2D document based delivery provides the catalyst for this high speed light rail BIM project. The use of a robust data rich model for multidisciplinary planning, engineering and approval processes not only exceeded the stringent owner requirements, it also exposed countless other benefits realized from leveraging information modeling methods. Image courtesy of Ramboll Sweco ANS.

Project summary

Norway is known for its natural beauty—fjords, lakes, mountains, and waterfalls. But the very terrain that makes it so famous can pose real challenges when it comes to infrastructure, as Rambøll Sweco ANS discovered when they were hired by the Norwegian National Rail Administration to contribute to a project to lay 75 kilometers of…

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