MUNICH, Germany, Jan 27, 2026 – ALLPLAN, the global provider of BIM solutions for the AEC industry and part of the Nemetschek Group, has released a new e-book that provides engineering and planning firms with practical guidance on projects for the maintenance and renewal of roads, bridges, and tunnels.
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.
About ALLPLAN
As a global provider of BIM solutions for the AEC industry, ALLPLAN covers the entire planning and construction process from initial design to execution planning for the construction site and precast design, in line with the motto “Design to Build”. Thanks to lean workflows, users create planning documents of the highest quality and detail. In the process, ALLPLAN supports interdisciplinary collaboration on projects in building construction and infrastructure engineering with integrated cloud technology. Over 600 employees worldwide continue the company’s success story with passion. ALLPLAN, headquartered in Munich, is part of the Nemetschek Group, the pioneer for digital transformation in the construction industry. For more information, visit www.allplan.com.
About Nemetschek Group
The Nemetschek Group is a globally leading software provider for digital transformation in the AEC/O and media industries. Its intelligent software solutions cover the entire lifecycle of building and infrastructure projects and enable creatives to optimize their workflows. Customers can design, build, and manage buildings and infrastructures more efficiently and sustainably and develop digital content such as visualizations, films and computer games more creatively. The software provider is driving innovations such as digital twins as well as open standards (OPEN BIM), and sustainability in the AEC/O industry, constantly expanding its portfolio by also investing in deep-tech startups. Currently more than seven million users worldwide are shaping the world with the customer-focused solutions of our four divisions. Founded by Prof. Georg Nemetschek in 1963, the Nemetschek Group today employs around 3,600 experts globally.
Publicly listed since 1999 and quoted on the MDAX and TecDAX, the company generated revenues amounting to EUR 801.8 million and an EBITDA of EUR 257.0 million in 2022. For more information, visit https://www.nemetschek.com.
