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Digital Twins Prove a Game-changer in Helping Sweco Nederland Deliver Bergen’s Light Rail Extension

Digital Twins Prove a Game-changer in Helping Sweco Nederland Deliver Bergen’s Light Rail Extension
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Advancing Infrastructure JU Project Summary Organization: Sweco Nederland, B.V. Solution: Rail and Transit Location: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway Project Objectives: • To leverage digital twins to integrate multisourced data for coordinated design and project delivery. • To create a public transport solution promoting urban development and environmental sustainability. Project Playbook: Descartes, LumenRT, MicroStation, Navigator, OpenBuildings™ Designer, OpenRail™ Designer, OpenRoads™ Designer, iModel.js, iTwin® Design Insights, iTwin Design Review, ProjectWise® Digital Twins Prove a Game-changer in Helping Sweco Nederland Deliver Bergen's Light Rail Extension Leveraging Bentley's iTwin Design Review Reduces Costs to Resolve Construction Errors by 25% Fast Facts • Sweco NL advanced BIM processes through a connected data environment to digitally manage and share information among 18 disciplines across five countries. • Sweco NL's pilot of iTwin Design Review linked digital information from Bentley and third-party applications to enable a digital twins approach. • Sweco NL leveraged OpenRail Designer and OpenBuildings Designer to realize significant productivity gains. ROI Bentley applications helped reduce design time by 15%. Digital twins helped track and manage change reducing construction errors by 25%. Sweco NL expects iTwin Design Review to save EUR 1.5 million annually on projects of similar size. A Public Transport Solution for Urban Development Bergen, Norway's second-largest city and gateway to the fjords, is extending its Bybanen light-rail system to make it accessible to all residents and visitors, promote urban development, and reduce pollution from automobile emissions. To deliver a user-focused transport solution that would establish the light rail as the backbone of the public transport system, the city initiated a 9-kilometer extension of the railway line. The NOK 6.2 billion project adds eight new stops, including a stopping place and depot situated underground, and two tunnels totaling 4.5 kilometers in length. Sweco Nederland (Sweco NL), in collaboration with its client Bybanen Utbygging and sister company Sweco Norway, was responsible for providing an optimal design that connects to existing infrastructure within a limited footprint, as well as integrates and aligns conflicting stakeholder interests and needs. Connecting and partly using the city's current tram line, Swecos work included adjacent roads, bicycle lanes, pedestrian zones, supporting bridge structures, and surrounding public areas. The project also included relocating and adjusting existing infrastructure, without disrupting urban life. The total BT-4 project team consisted of 18 engineering disciplines spread across five countries, using different software, and included 24 contracts. Faced with mountainous terrain and challenges surrounding data integration, alignment, change management, collaboration, and communication, Sweco NL realized that traditional manual processes would not suffice. Given the project complexity, client requirements, and overall scale, the team required a new, digital-driven approach to successfully deliver the design on a tight timeline. Connected Data Environment Provides Trusted Data Source Working with data from multiple sources and in a variety of formats meant Sweco NL needed a controlled environment to manage and share the large volume and diversity of design information it was working with. Aware that traditional digital data management methods are often time consuming, labor intensive, and error prone, Sweco knew it needed a solution that would encourage and enable collaboration, not limit and reduce the effectiveness of its multidiscipline design team. Using ProjectWise, Sweco therefore established an open, connected data environment to support coordination among the 18 geographically dispersed engineering disciplines and integrate the multisourced data. The universal platform offered interoperability, helping to share data among Bentleys applications and also with third-party applications, and ensured that accurate information was continuously available to all team members. Trusted data was the foundation of Sweco's entire digital workflow as the team began creating 3D models from the outset. Housing more than 60,000 files to coordinate over 450 models, the connected data environment facilitated real-time information sharing of trusted data, crucial to maximizing productivity, accelerating design and optimizing construction. Leveraging Bentley's open modeling applications within the connected data environment enabled the multidiscipline team, spread across five countries, to work together seamlessly. "Using ProjectWise and adaptive modeling through MicroStation, we can work as one while being in different locations, resulting in a dramatic reduction in costs otherwise associated with resolution of issues during construction," stated Christiaan Post, consultant - BIM manager at Sweco NL. Open Modeling Reaps Productivity Gains Using Bentley's open modeling applications, including OpenRail Designer and OpenBuildings Designer, Sweco NL advanced coordination, streamlined multidiscipline design, and accelerated production of deliverables through connected digital workflows. The project team used OpenRail Designer to create the alignment, plan, and profile drawings, facilitating development of over 30 different intelligent templates for double, single, and depot track alignments. The team leveraged the track alignments in OpenBuildings Designer, creating scripts that helped automate the placement of line-wide equipment, including sleepers and drainage boxes. The interoperability of Bentley's applications enabled the design team to incorporate design changes within automated model updates. "With the push of a button, you can refresh and update all the sleepers

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“Bentley’s solution has enabled Sweco NL to engineer the extension of Bergen’s Light Rail system ‘right first time,’ and, as a result, make significant time and cost savings on this complex project. In short, Bentley’s software made our work easier and more effective, enabling the team to optimize the design and complete work within a tight schedule.” – Christiaan Post, Consultant BIM Manager, Sweco Nederland B.V. Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact and...

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