When it opens to traffic next month near the city of Honefoss, about 31 miles northwest of Oslo, the bridge will be the longest ever constructed without 2D drawings.

They created 2D drawings on site and printed out screenshots from the model.” Construction of the bridge’s superstructure is well underway, with 300,000 elements in the model, says Oystein.

While BIM has been used for years to provide extra information and visualizations on road and bridge projects, 2D paper plans have remained the deliverable and the binding reference, says Christian.

The segmental bridge model is then scaled down to a 1/2/30-scale experimental model. In order to verify the behavior of the designed superstructure model under vertical seismic loads, a ...