1) Multiconsult is a leading consulting and design engineering firm in Norway with 1,400 employees working across various business areas including transportation and infrastructure which accounts for around 1/4 of their revenue. 2) They presented on using Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler to create a 3D terrain model of a proposed 450-500 km high speed rail line from Drammen to Stavanger including over 100,000 landscape files and detailed 3D modeling of the rail line, tunnels, bridges, and a sample 65 km section. 3) They also discussed using Revit, Civil 3D, and 3ds Max for BIM coordination and visualization of road and rail projects in Norway including a ski station project with

1. Multiconsult – Customer projects
Jon Olav Upsal | Åge Langedrag
Stockholm | Autodesk Infrastructure Event 08.02.2012

2. Agenda
▪ MULTICONSULT
▪ Use of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler in early phase design of a large rail
project in Norway
▪ Use of Civil 3D, Revit and 3ds Max for design, coordination and
visualization of road and rail projects in Norway

3. MULTICONSULT
-a short introduction
www.multiconsult.no

4. Multiconsult is a leading firm of consulting and design
engineers, which operates throughout Norway and overseas.
Multiconsult have 1,400 employees across the whole of Norway, based at
offices from Kristiansand in the south to Tromsø in the north.
Multiconsult is a owned by employees, former employees a trust and
WSP (25%)

5. Multiconsult operates in six business areas:
Building and property
Industry
Oil and gas
Energy
Environment and natural resources
Transportation and infrastructure

6. .Transportation and infrastructure :
-more than 500 of MC employee 2011 worked in this business area
-around ¼ of MC’ s revenue comes from the transportation &
infrastructure
-It is the backbone of both the society & our company

7. Customer project presentation

8. Infrastructure Projects – We need both
Infrastructure Design Suite and Building Design Suite.

9. Demands from our customers: BIM for Infrastructure
▪ The Norwegian National Rail Administration
▪ The Norwegian Public Roads Administration

10. Ski Stasjon – From BIM-model to conseptual design

11. Infrastructure BIM-model

12. Ski Station
▪ is located 24 km south of Oslo Sentralstsjon
▪ Is part of Follobane project. The entire project from Oslo S will significantly
go underground and is estimated to cost 11.6 billion NOK (13 billion SEK).
Together with the existing path on the route will cause a sharp increase in
kapsiteten on the line. Following line designed for 250 km / h and can be
the first stage in a possible high-speed rail to Sweden and Europe.

13. The project has many temporary structures and temporary
tracks changes.

14. All discipline models in 3D and BIM
Multi-disciplinary section out of one 3D model

17. All items to be placed into any of the discipline models must constantly be checked
against the final design but not least all temporary structures and instalasjoner

19. Phase Filter in Revit allows us to constantly keep check on
what type of objects that are dependent on each other

20. Demolish – Temporary - New

27. Multidisciplinary Sections, new – temporary - demolished

33. Early designphase - Infrastructure

34. Global BIM model

35. Site Model - 3D terrain and orthophotos

36. Outline routes through the landscape

37. Dividing lines into : Surface – Tunnel – Bridge

38. Convert lines to 3D model

39. Visualization and simulation of the route

50. Think out of the box - see the opportunities in the software

51. Details 3D model by only modeling a line, Handrail.

56. High Speed Rail Assessment Phase 3 – South Corridor
- 450-500 km high-speed line from Drammen to Stavanger
▪ A mission carried out in conjunction with the Norwegian National Rail
Administration.
▪ The reports are prepared by a team of Multiconsult and our partner WSP.

57. There are prepared two reports in the mission:
▪ A route report in which pathways and technical solutions for the four
different options are documented through text, maps and illustrations.
▪ An environmental report that documents and compares the impacts of the
various options in relation to landscape, natural environment, cultural,
community and outdoor recreation and natural resources

58. Our services
▪ • Development of rail routes
• Station Location
• Evaluation of mountain conditions and soil conditions
• Assessment of bridges and other large structures
• Flow Calculations for cost model
• Impact
▪ • Visualization / 3D

59. Divide the railway line in the areas of max 30 km length
- graphical limitations in Revit Architecture

60. Convert lines to 3D model

61. Theoretical ground surface that defines the upper edge
rails for height setting of the 3D model.

62. Using fences function in LANDCADD gave us the opportunity
to quickly model the outdoor rail track - tunnels and bridges.

63. We had a detailed 3D model of the railway but no good 3D
model of the landscape.

64. Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) - gave us the
opportunity to model the entire southern Norway

65. Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (AIM)
- 450 to 500 km double track railway from Drammen to Stavanger
▪ Landscape model is based on standard data from Norway digital.
▪ Consists total of more than 100,000 files
▪ Is 35 GB large
▪ Is based on database technology that makes it entirely runs on a standard PC
▪ Terrain model based on a 10-meter grid, DEM-files
▪ Ortho photo approximately 5,000 files
▪ Rail line is based on three different shapefiles, (Surface – Tunnel – Bridge )
▪ 150 to 190 tunnels - Tunnel ratio between 48 and 57%
▪ 130 to 180 bridges / viaducts
▪ Three of the bridges are modeled in more detail

66. Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (AIM)
Movie - Kristiansand to Flekkefjord ( only 65 km of 450/500 km)

67. Eksport from AIM to visualization tools (3DSMax)
Detailed movie of one of the 130 to 180 bridges.