Power stations
Seven live substations mapped. No outage, no core drilling.
BKK, with COWI
42%
Lower project cost
40%
Less engineering time
≈ NOK 176 000*
Saved on a single station
The challenge
BKK is upgrading its substations for heavier equipment. That means new loads and new openings in slabs that carry high-voltage cables, and the drawings are often missing or unreliable.
What we did
We scanned seven stations for COWI, in about a day each. For every station we delivered a point cloud of the building and mapped the rebar in the critical sections.
The result
With measured rebar data, COWI could assess the actual capacity instead of designing for the worst case. No outage, no core drilling and no extra concrete.
“With Birdsview Concrete, we uncover information that would otherwise require physical intervention to obtain.”
Delivered with BKK, COWI
Upgrading a station with uncertain drawings?
Tell us about the structure* COWI's cost analysis for BKK, 2026. COWI describes the figures as a rough estimate.