Ready before it’s built: Take advantage of digitalization for your tunnel projects. Digitalization lets you open your tunnels faster and operate them more safely. In collaboration with Siemens, leverage the benefits of the Digital Tunnel – from design and engineering to commissioning and operation.
Whether it’s a road or rail tunnel, new construction or renovation of an existing tunnel system: Every tunnel project is a planning and technical challenge that requires adherence to a tight schedule and budget. In view of the many interfaces and disciplines that need to be coordinated and the constant increase in traffic, this is nearly impossible without the help of digital solutions.
Digitalization optimizes the entire tunnel lifecycle. Gains in both efficiency and time achieved through virtualization pay off in the design, engineering, and commissioning stages. The benefits in terms of safety and availability come to the fore in actual operation.
Tunnel projects are becoming ever-more complex. This can quickly have an impact on the error rate. Digital solutions help prevent errors with transparent data, simulations, and early virtual test-runs.
Tunnels aren’t planned, built, or modernized overnight – and every delay quickly leads to more delays. With the digital twin, you can save time in all phases of the project: for example, by identifying risks at an early stage.
The cost of a tunnel project is enormous. The potential of the Digital Tunnel is substantial: The EU BIM Task Group assumes that digitalization can save 13 - 21% on planning and construction costs and 10 - 17% on operating costs.
The 40-year-old Beveren Tunnel, a vital artery for the Port of Antwerp with 15 million vehicles annually, needed a thorough makeover in terms of safety and sustainability. Thanks to a digital twin it transformed into Belgium's most modern tunnel in less than two years. Siemens technology now intelligently and automatically controls all its systems.
