AFTERNOON EVENT:
REBAR DETAILING - How to succeed with 3D BIM in reinforced concrete projects
Join us in Sandnes for an afternoon focused on how structured rebar data can connect engineering, project management, fabrication, logistics, and construction more effectively.
The event includes a guided tour of the Kamstål production facility in Sandnes, where we will see how reinforcement is prepared and fabricated in practice. This will be followed by presentations and discussions about rebar detailing, BVBS, and the wider digital workflow from the design model to production and execution on site.
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The challenge: Rebar data is still handled manually
Many reinforced concrete projects are designed and coordinated using 3D models, but the information passed between engineering, project management, contractors, and reinforcement fabricators is often still based on PDF drawings and bending schedules.
PDF documentation is useful for reviewing and communicating design intent, but it is not an efficient format for transferring production data between systems. Rebar dimensions, shapes, quantities, bar marks, and material information will need to be interpreted and entered again by another person before the reinforcement can be ordered or fabricated.
Skanska, Rebar Labels extension
“With just a few clicks, you can easily get to a specific position number and look at the quantities, dimensions and other information that the construction team needs to do the job»
This creates repeated manual work and increases the risk of typing, interpretation, and transcription errors. Time is spent checking drawings against bending schedules, while uncertainty can arise over whether the latest revision is being used.
It also makes it harder to connect engineering with purchasing, fabrication, logistics, and installation. The effects are therefore not limited to the reinforcement fabricator. Missing, outdated, or incorrectly interpreted information can influence production planning, delivery schedules, site logistics, project cost, and progress.
A digital workflow should provide more than a 3D visualization. It should allow reliable information to move between the participants and systems that need it.
Connecting Tekla models with fabrication and construction workflows
Tekla Structures provides tools for modeling and detailing reinforcement accurately in 3D. The reinforcement model can contain the geometry and properties needed for drawings, bending schedules, quantity information, coordination, and production data.
When this information is transferred through structured digital formats, fabricators can receive data that their software and machinery can interpret directly.
Free BVBS Viewer
Construsoft have made a BVBS viewer to easily visualise and check rebar geometry. BVBS is exported from BIM design tools such as Tekla and Revit.
BVBS is one established format for this type of exchange and will be an important focus during the event (read more at BuildingSmart).
The objective is not necessarily to prescribe one specific file format for every company or project. Different production systems may use BVBS, proprietary integrations, APIs, or other structured formats. What matters is that the information can be transferred reliably, checked efficiently, and used without unnecessary manual re-entry.
Who benefits from this?
For engineers and rebar detailers, the reinforcement model becomes the source for drawings, schedules, quantities, and production information. Changes can be coordinated in the model and reflected in updated deliverables.
For project managers, structured data can provide better visibility into quantities, revisions, purchasing, fabrication status, and upcoming deliveries.
For contractors, digital information can support planning, coordination, logistics, installation, and communication between the office and the construction site.
For reinforcement subcontractors and fabricators, receiving usable production data can reduce manual preparation, improve predictability, and make it easier to connect customer information with fabrication machinery and internal production systems.
For building and asset owners, the overall benefit is a project workflow with less duplicated work, fewer avoidable errors, and better use of the information already created during design.
Drammen City Bridge
Learn how the team developed a flexible parametric BIM model for steel and concrete to be able to deliver a challenging project:
The event:
Interaction and discussion
The afternoon starts with a guided tour of the Kamstål reinforcement production facility in Sandnes. This provides an opportunity to see how reinforcement information is used after it leaves the engineering and detailing environment, and why the quality and structure of the delivered data matter.
The second part of the event will include presentations, practical examples, and discussions involving different participants in the reinforced concrete supply chain.
RECORDED WEBINAR:
Accelerating Precast Concrete Manufacturing
Watch the webinar to get the full picture to learn about the status of the industry and where it is heading.
Topics and takeaways
We will look at how rebar information moves from design to fabrication, where manual workflows with PDF bending schedules create problems, and how Tekla Structures, BVBS and other digital formats can make the process more efficient.
You will see practical examples of how structured rebar data can reduce manual work, improve checking and revision control, and support purchasing, production, logistics and construction. There will also be room for questions, discussion and exchange of experiences.
Agenda to be announced…
Time: 12:00 - 16:00, followed by a social event, drinks and snacks
Who should attend?
The event is relevant to professionals involved in the design, coordination, management, fabrication, purchasing, logistics, or installation of reinforcement.
IMAGE: NCC giving a presentation at the Rebar Detailing event in Copenhagen.
It is suitable both for companies already using structured rebar data and for those that still rely mainly on drawings, PDF bending schedules, spreadsheets, and manual transfer of information.
You do not need previous experience with BVBS or Tekla Structures to attend. The event is intended for anyone who wants to understand how digital rebar information can improve collaboration between engineering, fabrication, and construction.
FREE registration
OBS: This is an in-person event in Sandnes and will not be streamed online.
