WSP is using OpenBrIM to model steel girder bridges with improved efficiency and accuracy.

Blueprints, like cassette tapes and Blockbuster Video are now relics of the past. The transportation infrastructure industry must undergo a similar paradigm shift to make use Building Information Models (BIM) that have the potential to make bridge design more accurate, fast and dynamic.The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is leading an effort entitled BIM for Infrastructure that enables users to exchange data from one discipline to the next, indicating who is building what, when each part will be built, the materials to be used, and how it will be constructed.

The already deteriorating Pier 54 was further damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Hudson River Park Trust, the public agency that oversees the parks along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan and converts existing piers into public parks, decided to replace the pier with a new kind of public park on the river. A philanthropic foundation generously funded the project, and Heatherwick Studio in London was commissioned to guide the vision of creating informal, playful, and educational public space into a reality. The idea was to create an undulating landscaped park with a plaza, performing spaces, and overlooks surrounded by the lawn and trees.