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The rain is pouring down over Avtjerna in Bærum after a long cloudy period. Viewed from the height of the addition to the new Sollihøgda tunnel, individual workers can be seen as pinheads on the ground. Large excavators come into play, shaping the terrain. Right now, they are working on an access road over Rustandbekken and down by Skoglund a bridge foundation is growing.
Statens Vegvesen is responsible for the Bjørum-Skaret section, which is the last stage of the major expansion of the Norwegian E16 road between Sandvika and Hønefoss. From day one they have used a model-based approach and continued throughout the planning, design and construction stages. Trimble's BIM solutions have opened up new and more flexible ways of organizing the work.
“Much of what we have done here is ground-breaking,” says Baard Sigmund Eikaas, BIM manager to the contractor Marthinsen & Duvholt.
He believes that parallel planning has been taken one step further on the E16 Bjørum-Skaret project. Eikaas, together with Pål Holmefjord Lorentzen, project manager at Statens Vegvesen, Mahmoud Timraz, project manager at Skanska and Ole Jørgen Braaten, project manager at the consultant Aas-Jakobsen, play key roles in the project’s digital collaboration. From their respective vantage points, they each tell how the planning and implementation has been optimized. All four benefit from model-based work to a greater degree than ever before.
