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Digital Transformation
Bringing BIM and digital twins to power networks engineering at Axpo, Switzerland.
Talk · On integrating BIM and digital twins at Axpo
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is reshaping how infrastructure gets planned and built. It is now standard in more than 40 countries, and in Switzerland it is a baseline expectation for quality and efficiency on any serious project.
At Axpo Grid, I built the vision and strategy to bring BIM and digital twins into our team of 400 stakeholders — asset managers, engineers, procurement and sales officers. In three years we repositioned ourselves in the market: first in Switzerland to build a high-voltage substation with 3D information models alone (no paper plans, no printing), with a new department launched, a team built overseas, and new commercial services on offer.