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Large-Scale Railway Projects: Planning and Coordination Strategies
Lorena Franqueira Losada Civil Engineer/Adif
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Large-Scale Railway Projects: Planning and Coordination Strategies
In recent years, even before the BIM Plan came into force in public procurement, Adif has
been a pioneering organization in committing to BIM implementation for all future projects. According to this, Chamartín and Atocha Digital are initiatives developed under a strategic framework aimed at promoting the digitalization of all its future developments through BIM
methodology. These unique, complex, and ever-changing interventions represent a major challenge that requires a shared, coordinated, and federated vision, supported by Technical
Coordination Assistance. This approach will help to get a digital twin in the future, enabling advanced asset management and data-driven decision-making.
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Large-Scale Railway Projects :
Planning and Coordination Strategies
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BIM Implementation in Adif
BIM Documentation Ecosystem in Adif
TCA to coordinate large-scale railway projects
BIM Framework Plan: Coordination requirements
Large Scale Projects: Chamartin and Atocha
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BIM implementation in Adif
2016-2017 2018-2019 2020-2021 2022-2023 2024-2025
❑ Interdisciplinary
study phase begins
by defining the
roadmap
❑ Definition of the
scope of BIM
objectives
❑ Defined information
requirements for early
procurement.
❑ First BIM Committee
established
❑ First procurement process
for developing the BIM
documentation framework
❑ More than 20 projects are
initiated using BIM
❑ Over 400 employees trained
across the organization.
❑ BIM Technical Office
established and BIM
included as a strategic
initiative.
❑ Development of
BIM
implementation
standard for
projects and
construction.
❑ Mandatory use of
CDE for all
projects and
works
❑ Improvement of all
BIM documentation
❑ Development of
additional model
uses for Operation
and Maintenance
> 5.538.000 €
< 5.538.000 €
> 2.000.000 €
BIM Plan - Public Procurement
UNE-EN ISO 9000 CAD CDE BIM
CDEPMB BIM
BIM Level of Development
MEDIUM (October 2025)
INITIAL (April 2024)
Economic threshold for
projects and works.
CDE PMB
BIM
BIM LIBRARY BIM TRAINING
BIM Level of Development
ADVANCED (October 2025)
MEDIUM (January 2023)
WORKING TO ACHIEVE AN
ADVANCED LEVEL
M ODEL USES F OR:
BIM Plan -
ASSET FOR OPERAT ION AND
M AINT ENANCE3D
4D
5D
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BIM Documentation Ecosystem in Adif
BIM
STRATEGY
PEOPLE PROCESSES
BIM REQUIRE MENTS
ICT
BIM STANDARD
BIM implementation strategy integrated
into the Organization’s processes
INTEGRATION OF THE BIM METHODOLOGY IN ADIF
DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE
BIM METHODOLOGY
DOCUMENT APPROVAL PROCESS
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIM STANDARD
MODEL USES IN BIM IMPLEMENTATION
BIM METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO
CONSTRUCTION WORKS
REVIEW AND VALIDATION OF BIM DELIVERABLES
USE OF THE COMMON ENVIRONMENT (CDE)
BIM METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO
PROJECTS
ADIF AND ADIF AV BIM MANUAL
BIM ROLES
Adif / Adif-AV PROVEEDOR
Contract
Manager Information
Manager
BIM
Manager
BIM
Supervisor
Project/
Construction
Manager
Information
Manager
BIM
Manager
BIM
Modeler
BIM
Coordinator
BIM REQUIREMENTS TO INCLUDE IN TENDERS
BIM REQUIREM ENTS
UNIQUE BIM SCOPE
TYPE 1
TYPE 2
TYPE 3
TYPE 4
TYPE 5
o Mandatory Use of CDE o Information
Management Plan
o Use of CDE o Navigation and model
query
o Use of CDE o Models review
o Use of CDE o Models maintenance
o Use of CDE o Models creation
o BIM Clauses.
BIM REQUIREM ENTS
TYPE 3+5
o Use of CDE o Models
review
o Models creation
COMBINATION OF
BIM SCOPE
ADIF has chosen Autodesk Construction Cloud
(ACC) as its Common Data Environment (CDE)
for managing information related to their projects.
BIM DOCUMENTS
CDE GUIDE
E
CDE USAGE GUIDES
SUP GUIDE
GUIDES FOR SUPPLIERS
SPE GUIDE
SPECIFIC GUIDES
STYLE GUIDE
STYLE GUIDE MANUALS STYLE GUIDE TEMPLATES
LEVEL OF
DEVELOP
MENT
(LOD)
LEVEL OF
INFORMA
TION
(LOI)
QUALITY ASSET FOR THE
ENTIRE LIFECYCLE
LEVEL OF INFORMATION NEED
(LOIN)
MAJOR INTERVENTION
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TCA to coordinate large-scale railway projects
ADIF COORDINATES MAJOR RAILWAY TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS USING BIM METHODOLOGY
INTERVENTION 01
INTERVENTION 03
INTERVENTION 05
INTERVENTION 06
TSD – TCA ATOCHA (2023)
-Mandatory use of a CDE (January 2023)
BIM premises prior to : - -BIM Plan in public procurement (April 2024)
TSD – TCA CHAMARTÍN (2021)
BIM premises prior to: -Mandatory use of a CDE (January 2023) -BIM Plan in public procurement (April 2024)
DEPUTY DIRECTORATE
FOR MAJOR PROJECTS
COORDINATION
DACGP
• Manage procedures with various authorities and developers • Coordinate projects and works taking place in the same location and timeframe • Identify issues through an overall overview of all activities
• Ensure the proper transition from the design phase to the construction phase
Technical and BIM Team º
TCA
Technical Team
• Compatibility analysis • Coordination and monitoring • Risk identification
• Proposal of solutions
BIM Team
• Writing manuals and guides • Model analysis • Federated Model
• 3D and 4D Coordination
Support Team
• Execution of on-demand work according to deliverable requirement
CONSULTANCY AND TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE FOR THE COORDINATION
AND CONTROL OF WORKS
INTERVENTION 04
INTERVENTION 02 INTERVENTION 07
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BIM Framework Plan: Coordination requirements
COMMON GUIDELINES IN BIM METHODOLOGY FOR ALL AGENTS
BIM clauses as an Annex to the TCA contract
BIM TO ASSIST WITH THE COORDINATION
CHALLENGE BIM
FRAMEWORK
PLAN
o Understand the current status and existing elements
o Visualize different projects together
o Simulate construction phases of the projects
o Detection of issues before they occur on site
o Gather information for operation and maintenance
BIM TO PROMOTE A COLLABORATIVE SPACE
MODEL AWARDEE (MA) = BIM MODEL PROVIDER THAT WILL PARTICIPATE IN:
PROJECT PHASE
BIM Works
BIM Clauses
DESIGNER
CONSTRUCTION PHASE
BIM Clauses
TACONTRACTOR
BIM Works BIM Supervision
BIM M. Adif TCA/Adif
BIM OBJECTIVES
Model for the life cycle
Decision-making
Quality
Coordination
Project control
Risk mitigation
BIM monitoring
Current status
Operational economics
Information consistency
Adif Asset Management
Comunication
MODEL USES
Authoring with 3D BIM Models
(GE 013)
Document management, collaboration,
and BIM Delivery (CO 011)
2D Documentation, Drawings
(CO 022)
Visualization for commercial and
institutional purposes (CO 053)
Digital meetings (CO 043)
BIM Coordination (3D), clashes or
interference (AN 023)
Construction Simulation (4D)
(AN 034)
Railway interoperability (AN 089)
Digital Mapping of Existing Assets
(RE 013)
(AN) ANALYZE
(CO) COMMUNICATE
(GE) GENERATE
(RE) COLLECT
BIM DOCUMENTATION TO ENSURE COORDINATION
ALIGNED TEMPLATE for BEP (TCA-MA)
DOC TEM
REF DOC
BASE DOCUMENTS PROTOTYPE MODEL SHARED COORDINATES WORK STANDARS
TCA
WORK TEMPLATES
SOFT TEM
REVIT TEMPLATES ISTRAM TEMPLATES
AUTOCAD TEMPLATES
ZON SCO
SCOPE ZONING
OBJECTIVE:
o The MA is part of a mayor intervention
o Guiding the MA at the beginning of the work
o Establishing guidelines for consistency
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Large Scale Projects: Chamartín and Atocha Digital BIM DELIVERABLES
Project model
PROJECT PHASE
Current state model
BIM Execution Plan
for project
CONSTRUCTION PHASE
BIM Execution Plan
for construction
Project model audit
Initial construction
model
Construction
monitoring model
As-Built model
1) They must have the same:
o LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT (LOD)
o LEVEL OF INFORMATION (LOI)
o COORDINATE SYSTEM
2) They must be useful to identify clashes
between interventions during the design
phase and the construction phase
VS INTERVENTION B
INTERVENTION A
CHAMARTÍN DIGITAL
ATOCHA DIGITAL
Adif Psets
Atributes allow consistency
in information
BIM IN GLOBAL COORDINATION
3) They must become future digital twins
BIM MODELS
OBJETIVE : TO BE INCLUDED INTO AN
INTEGRATED MODEL
OBJETIVE : TO AVOID MISTAKES AND
SAVE COSTS
OBJETIVE : TO BE A LIVING ASSET AFTER
CONSTRUCTION
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Slide 1 Slide 2: Large-Scale Railway Projects: Slide 3 Slide 4: BIM implementation in Adif Slide 5: BIM Documentation Ecosystem in Adif Slide 6: TCA to coordinate large-scale railway projects Slide 7: BIM Framework Plan: Coordination requirements Slide 8: Large Scale Projects: Chamartín and Atocha Digital Slide 9