About
An engineering practice for the whole life of a bridge.
Why HLC exists
One practice, not a set of isolated tasks.
Many bridge problems are set in motion long before they appear — a load model chosen in the design basis, a detail carried into service, a change missed late in life. HLC Analytics works across the whole life of a bridge, treating standards interpretation, the design basis, traffic loading, monitoring and assessment as parts of one engineering picture rather than separate specialisms, with the aim of supporting better decisions at each stage, informed by what the others reveal.
The engineer behind it
About Heikki Lilja.
Heikki Lilja is a bridge engineer with three decades in the field. He has worked as a designer, proof checker, project manager and client representative, as a national-authority engineer, and — for the second-generation Eurocodes — as a standards developer at European level.
Working across those roles — designer, checker, client, authority and standards committee — has given him a practical understanding of how bridge decisions are made, and of where in a bridge's life they matter most.
Experience
Selected roles and standards work.
- Three decades in bridge engineering
- Convenor, CEN/TC250/SC10/WG2 (Bridges)
- Member of the development team for the 2nd-generation Eurocodes (EN 1991-2 and EN 1990 Annex A.2)
- Co-Chair, IABSE Task Group 1.10 – Utilisation of Traffic Data in Research, Design and Assessment of Bridges
- Long-standing member of the Nordic Road Association (NVF) Bridge Group
- Drafter of National Annexes (both for 1st and 2nd generation) and design guides.
Professional involvement
Where this work is rooted.
HLC's writing and methods grow out of long-term involvement in the organisations and research networks where bridge standards and practice are shaped.
Standardisation
CEN
Active in European standardisation work on the bridge Eurocodes — design basis and traffic loads.
International
IABSE
Co-Chair of IABSE TG 1.10 — utilisation of traffic data in research, design, and assessment of bridges.
Nordic network
NVF
Involved in the Nordic road and transport sector's professional network and its bridge community.
Research — to be filled
Nordic research collaborations
Ongoing high-level projects with researchers across the Nordic countries — listed here as they publish.
Involvement is listed for context only — it implies no institutional endorsement of HLC's services or products.
Vision
Where bridge engineering is heading.
Bridge engineering is gradually moving toward a more integrated way of working — where standards, design, engineering knowledge, traffic loading and structural monitoring inform the same decisions across the whole life of a bridge, rather than sitting in separate disciplines. That direction is the natural evolution of the profession, not one company's idea; HLC Analytics simply tries to work that way already.
Get in touch
Have a bridge, a dataset, or a Eurocode question?
A short note about the problem is enough to start a conversation.