There are many reasons why AF Gruppen are using Tilos as a planning tool in large road- and tunnel projects.
“It is the largest project I have worked with so far” says Anton Brandtzaeg, Technical Manager at AF Groups, the general contractor’s civil construction division.
The project he is talking about is the new 23 km, 4 lane motorway, E18 Tvedestrand-Arendal in Norway, with a contract value of 320 M€.
As a general contractor responsible for both design and construction, AF needs to relate to the customer and a large number of sub-contractors and consultants.
The project, completed in 2019, consisted of 4 double pipe road tunnels, 25 bridges, 9 culverts and mass haul of 10 millions cubic meters of rock- and soil. At the most intensive period about 800 people were working on the project.
When the road was finished in the summer of 2019, only 30 months had passed since the start of the construction and it was 3,5 months ahead of schedule. The usage of appropriate planning tools is one part of making it possible to open the road ahead of time.
“In the high level planning, we've benefited from using Tilos”, Anton Brandtzaeg tells us.
Tilos linear schedule is more intuitive than a Gantt-chart
Everyone who has been working on an infrastructure project surely remembers all the Gantt-chart pinned to the walls of the office. Today's planning tools give an overview in a totally different way. This overview is a key factor to an efficient planning process with a higher level of control of time and costs.
