Balm Bridge Meiringen

As part of the Hasliaare flood protection project, the existing girder bridge from 1964 is being replaced by a modern three-span frame bridge. The new bridge is being planned and constructed entirely using BIM.

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Marc Kaufmann

Head of Bridges
Kriens

+41 41 368 46 69

Balz Bauer

Managing Director, Head of Bridges an Digital Structures
Zurich

+41 44 387 13 70

The new girder bridge in Meiringen is designed as a three-span integral frame bridge for a pressurized flood discharge. The superstructure consists of a longitudinally prestressed slab cross-section. The foundations are on bored piles.

At the beginning of the project, a digital terrain model was created, which served as the basis for the alignment and modelling of the optimized road course. Basler & Hofmann modeled the new 65-meter-long bridge with a main span of 34 meters. The various specialist models were coordinated using the open IFC file format on a cloud-based collaboration platform, which allowed the foreman, planners and site managers to access the same up-to-date data at all times.

The canton of Bern used the project as a pilot project for the use of BIM in infrastructure construction. The findings are being incorporated into the cantonal BIM strategy.

Our services

Variant study
Preliminary project, construction project, circulation project, submission, implementation project
local construction management and commissioning
BIM consulting and BIM planning from the construction project up to and including commissioning, including creation of a digital terrain model
Soil science construction supervision.