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The background to this is the growing wave of renewals in Europe: many structures from the 1960s to the 1980s are reaching the end of their service life. At the same time, budgets are shifting massively toward maintenance (65–70 percent) by 2040. This opens up extraordinary business opportunities – while at the same time creating high pressure to be efficient. The e-book provides the key success factors and concrete digital workflows.

Gregor Strekelj, Product Manager Civil Infrastructure at ALLPLAN, says: "Maintenance is becoming increasingly important. Those who rely on digital twins, parametric modeling, and integrated sustainability assessments today can plan faster, as well as more accurately and economically. Our best practice guide brings together proven procedures, references, and connected workflows to help offices relieve the burden on their teams, reduce risks, and deliver projects successfully."

Five success factors for effective maintenance projects

The e-book outlines the five most important factors for successful maintenance projects: precise condition assessment via scan-to-BIM; integrated life cycle and ESG analysis; digital quality assurance and complete documentation; collaborative project management in the cloud; and intelligent, predictive maintenance planning. The latter helps to optimize maintenance intervals, reduce unplanned downtime by 25 to 30 percent, and extend the service life of structures by more than ten years.

At the solution level, the guide describes the central building blocks for infrastructure maintenance: parametric modeling for road, bridge, and tunnel projects; scan-to-BIM integration for rapid transition from existing structures to digital twins; one-click LCA integration for reliable environmental and CO₂ estimates; advanced structural analysis specifically for infrastructure; BIMPLUS for real-time cloud collaboration; and AI-supported visualization and quantity determination for accelerated calculation.

The best practice guide also quantifies a potential savings of €44 billion over the next 20 years through more efficient processes and data-driven decisions, and shows how offices can position themselves as specialists in the growing maintenance market.

Availability

The e-book "Best Practice Guide: Modernization and Renewal of Transportation Infrastructure" is now available for download free of charge.

ALLPLAN also recommends the compact trend report "The Five Most Important Trends in European Transport Infrastructure," which summarizes investment shifts, market forecasts, and options for action until 2050.