VIASTRATA®: The New Frontiers of BIM for the Digitalisation and Management of Infrastructures

Abstract

Building information modelling for infrastructure (I-BIM) is used for creating and managing data during the design, construction, and operations process of roads, railways, and airports. I-BIM integrates multi-disciplinary data to create detailed digital representations that are managed in an open cloud platform for real-time collaboration. The newly founded university spin-off VIASTRATA aims to develop digital information management methods and tools for the design and construction of roads, railways, airports and hydraulic works. Its scope also includes interventions on existing constructions and ultimately aims to the creation and products with high technological value and innovative BIM services. The chapter covers structured and innovative methodologies for designing, modelling and managing transport and hydraulic infrastructures leveraging BIM. To this end, the operation of an algorithm developed in visual programming language that realises the parametric model of a road dynamically from data contained in a spreadsheet is described.