Towards a Holistic Bridge BIM Solution

Abstract

<p>A new BIM solution tailored for bridge engineering has recently been developed, with the ambition of successively covering all tasks related to bridge design, construction, and management throughout lifetime.</p><p>Currently, the solution already contains a variety of bridge design functionality from parametric modeling to structural analysis and checking procedures. Based on an intelligent 4D model of the structure including the construction timeline in addition to the parametrically described geometric model, an appropriate analysis model is automatically created.</p><p>The paper describes the current functionality and recent successful practical use cases and gives an outlook to the considered future extensions.</p>