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Industrial Sites
Find optimal sites for flat industrial sites—minimizing earthworks and construction costs.
L.IN.E.A screens site alternatives with mass-balance and land-use KPIs for industrial and energy projects.
Built for complex sites
Large industrial developments need sites that work with the terrain—not against it. Infraspace helps you compare options fast, with quantified feedback on earthworks, mass balance, and land use.
Site feasibility
Evaluate thousands of potential locations for flat sites or industrial footprints simultaneously—so you shortlist the best sites before detailed design.
Mass balance optimization
Optimize site elevation to get as close to net-zero mass balance as possible, cutting the cost of importing or exporting material.
Land use KPIs
Instantly see square-meter impact across land resource categories before a single shovel hits the ground.
Industrial site planning FAQ
Site location, earthworks, and KPIs for large industrial developments.
Which infrastructure types can Infraspace support?
Infraspace can support roads, railways, networks of access roads, power transmission lines and industrial site location studies.
The platform is strongest when several alternatives must be considered and terrain, land take, earthworks, or environmental impact matter.
- Roads and highways
- Railways
- Power transmission lines
- Pipelines
- Wind farm access roads
- Industrial site location studies
What is mass balance optimization?
Mass balance optimization aims to reduce the surplus or deficit of excavated materials by improving the relationship between cut and fill.
Better mass balance can reduce transport, disposal, imported materials, cost, and CO2 emissions.
What KPIs can Infraspace calculate?
Infraspace can calculate KPIs such as construction cost, CO2, earthworks volumes, mass balance, area usage, land take, viewshed, environmental metrics, affected buildings, biodiversity considerations, and required structures such as bridges and tunnels.
What is generative design in infrastructure planning?
Generative design is a method where algorithms automatically generate infrastructure alternatives based on defined objectives and constraints.
In infrastructure planning, this can include geometric rules, terrain, environmental restrictions, cost targets, land-use requirements, and CO2 objectives.
Is Infraspace for detailed design?
Infraspace is primarily intended for early-stage planning, feasibility analysis, corridor studies, concept development, and optioneering.
It is not positioned as a replacement for detailed engineering design tools used later in the project lifecycle, Autodesk Civil 3D or Trimble Quadri, but rather designed to integrate with these tools and provide a more efficient workflows.
How can AI improve decision support in infrastructure projects?
AI improves decision support by giving teams consistent KPIs for many alternatives.
Cost, CO2, mass balance, land use, terrain impact, and environmental indicators can be evaluated on the same foundation, which makes trade-offs easier to explain and defend.
Metric that matters
One client reduced construction costs by 50% (7.9 MNOK → 3.5 MNOK) in a single day of analysis on an industrial site project.
Read the Norconsult energy access roads case study
