The SNCF Réseau team analyzes future earthworks on the EOLE site.
Customer profile: SNCF Réseau designs, builds and operates a vast rail network in France, including the high-speed rail network. With 28,000 kilometers of lines in operation, SNCF runs 15,000 trains, transports 250,000 tons of goods and 5 million passengers a day. In 2022, SNCF carried out over 1,750 worksites on all rail systems: power distribution, signalling, track work and civil engineering.
Background: Over the past few decades, SNCF has had to face the "double challenge" of increasing traffic demand and deteriorating infrastructure condition. In response, the railroad administration has undertaken a vast upgrading program to modernize the network. In 2020, SNCF continued its long-standing relationship with Trimble, choosing the integrated Trimble Quadri and Trimble Connect solution to serve as the core system within its common enterprise data environment. Thanks to this renewed partnership, SNCF Reseau has set up its own BIM Fab team responsible for deploying new and emerging BIM technologies.
The challenge: To use the East-West Express Link (EOLE) project as a proof of concept to show how augmented reality can reduce construction costs by bridging the gap between design and construction operations.
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