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CASEstudy<br />
Quality assured<br />
Using Solibri to fine-tune BIM models ultimately helped improve the passenger experience at<br />
Copenhagen Airport<br />
The sounds of trolley bags' wheels<br />
rolling on the tiled floors,<br />
announcements about departing<br />
flights and lively chatting echoes<br />
throughout the terminal as people walk<br />
towards gates to catch their flight.<br />
Some of them linger in the terminal<br />
shops looking for gifts to take home,<br />
while others sit in<br />
cafés<br />
enjoying a cup of coffee and relaxing<br />
before embarking on their outward<br />
journey from Denmark. This is everyday<br />
life at Copenhagen's airport.<br />
It is the biggest, and busiest, airport in<br />
the Nordic countries, conveniently<br />
located very close to the centre of the<br />
country's capital. The number of<br />
passengers travelling through<br />
openhagen Airport is increasing, though,<br />
from the current throughput of around 30<br />
Million people every year. To<br />
accommodate the expected<br />
increase, a busy schedule<br />
of improvements has<br />
now been<br />
implemented.<br />
"Our strategy is to have one airport<br />
that has all the terminals and piers<br />
under one roof, and we are increasing<br />
the capacity of the existing buildings<br />
and areas to accommodate the rise in<br />
the number of passengers and to<br />
improve the passenger's experience.<br />
Because of this, we have around 100<br />
different building projects in progress<br />
every year," explains Michael Ørsted,<br />
the Head of Department Technical<br />
Knowledge at Copenhagen Airport. To<br />
handle the large volume of projects<br />
more efficiently, Michael and his team<br />
have employed the latest design and<br />
model analysis software, in particular<br />
BIM and Solibri, which have improved<br />
the quality of the project's performance<br />
and, at the same time, achieved<br />
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