| Inventory and Inspection of Bridges and Crossings in the ETS Infrastructure | |
| Provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa , Spain | |
| Structural typology | Bridge Management System |
| Date | 2026-2028 |
| Scope | Inventory and inspections (main and details) |
| Cliente | ETS (Euskal Trenbide Sarea) – RED FERROVIARIA VASCA |
| Owner | ETS |
Euskal Trenbide Sarea manages and administers the railway infrastructures under the responsibility of the Basque Autonomous Community.
The network covered by the works is primarily distributed across the following lines and branches: Atxuri-Kukullaga, Bilbao-Donostia, Amorebieta-Bermeo, Donostia-Hendaia, Casco Viejo-Lezama, Lutxana-Sondika, Basurto-Ariz, Irauregi-Lutxana, Azpeitia-Lasao, Lasarte-Oria, Matiko-Deusto, and the Larreineta Funicular.
The total length amounts to approximately 210 km of railway infrastructure, comprising around 385 structures.
The historical origin of the network, combined with successive expansions, variants, track doublings, coverings, replacements, and urban interventions carried out over time, has resulted in a highly diverse set of viaducts, trestles, underpasses, overpasses, footbridges, false tunnels, and covered sections, located in very different contexts.
As an improvement, the AURA management software was proposed, which allows loading files based on BIM methodology in the open IFC format, including the latest IFC 4.0 revision. This proposal refers to incorporating models into the document manager, not to developing projects using this methodology, except for a specific case involving one of the steel bridges.
The network covered by the works is primarily distributed across the following lines and branches: Atxuri-Kukullaga, Bilbao-Donostia, Amorebieta-Bermeo, Donostia-Hendaia, Casco Viejo-Lezama, Lutxana-Sondika, Basurto-Ariz, Irauregi-Lutxana, Azpeitia-Lasao, Lasarte-Oria, Matiko-Deusto, and the Larreineta Funicular.
The total length amounts to approximately 210 km of railway infrastructure, comprising around 385 structures.
The historical origin of the network, combined with successive expansions, variants, track doublings, coverings, replacements, and urban interventions carried out over time, has resulted in a highly diverse set of viaducts, trestles, underpasses, overpasses, footbridges, false tunnels, and covered sections, located in very different contexts.
As an improvement, the AURA management software was proposed, which allows loading files based on BIM methodology in the open IFC format, including the latest IFC 4.0 revision. This proposal refers to incorporating models into the document manager, not to developing projects using this methodology, except for a specific case involving one of the steel bridges.
