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Digital Construction Awards 2023

1 Best Application of Technology Winner
2 Best use of data on a project Winner
3 Delivering net zero with digital innovation Winner
4 Digital construction project of the year Winner
5 Digital contractor of the year
6 Digital consultancy of the year
7 Digital collaboration of the year
8 Digital innovation in asset management
9 Digital innovation in productivity
10 Digital rising star of the year
11 Digital innovation in health, safety and wellbeing Winner
12 Digital construction champion of the year Winner
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[edit] Best Application of Technology Winner

Local Id: Faithful + Gould

Created in-house, Faithful and Gould’s Local ID tool gives developers and local authorities the power to leverage a wide range of data so that they can analyse, improve and optimise their housing developments (including associated infrastructure) and investment.

The judges thought this was a great example of the determination and curiosity needed to make a positive difference to the communities in which we all play, live and work. A stand-out submission.

[edit] Best use of data on a project Winner

Digital Transformation For Ekfb Information Management On Hs2 Phase 1. Laminar Projects With Ekfb (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial And Bam Nuttall)

Laminar Projects has delivered significant savings to the Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM Nuttall joint venture working on HS2, thanks to its approach to digital transformation. Total time savings thanks to Laminar’s work equates to £10.3m annually.

The judges said Laminar’s entry showed how a different approach to managing data, integrating data sets and applying a whole array of different technologies and capabilities is required. A comprehensive solution to a common problem, executed well

[edit] Delivering net zero with digital innovation Winner

Skanska’s Transformational Journey To Net Zero Through Redefining The 5d+ Bim Dimension: Skanska

Skanska developed a platform for creating and sharing relational databases that collects and calculates carbon factor information, which, through automatic pipelines, is integrated with its 3D models. This enriches the existing 3D models with carbon data, enabling the company to interpret its project’s 5D-plus model as a single source of truth and generate a structured database that can be used for data analytics.

[edit] Digital construction project of the year Winner

Conservation Of Elizabeth Tower: Sir Robert Mcalpine With Strategic Estates – Uk Parliament And Purcell Architects

Sir Robert McAlpine’s conservation work on the famous Elizabeth Tower – Big Ben – was underpinned by an incredibly complex and rigorous Bim strategy. Its key objectives were the creation of a reliable digital asset register with both new and existing building fabric elements, and the creation of an asset information model for FM purposes on completion.

On completion, McAlpine handed over the asset information models with COBie data. This will contribute to the eventual digital twin of the Palace of Westminster estate. The judges said McAlpine and its team “enabled a complex restoration of complex features to be co-ordinated and managed using modern techniques; it provided comprehensive data both within team for action and to the client”.

[edit] Digital contractor of the year

Site Centric & Graham Asset Intelligence Digital Transformation Programmes: Graham

Graham decided to re-evaluate its digital strategy during 2022 and made a conscious decision to put its site teams at the centre of its thinking. The result was the introduction of its Site Centric Initiative and the Graham Asset Intelligence System.

Graham has engaged and up-skilled more than 500 people through Site Centric, while increasing collaboration, improving site connectivity 40%, and delivering measurable and repeatable efficiency gains scaled across operations, including reducing site data processing time from hours to minutes.

The judges were impressed by Graham’s “practical and well-evidenced approach that clearly led to some big benefits”. They said: “A very impressive approach to training and development – clear thought has been given to the most appropriate method and substantial numbers of staff have been trained, with consideration also given to the supply chain.”

[edit] Digital consultancy of the year

Bond Bryan Digital

Bond Bryan Digital takes pride in its ‘information first’ approach and joined up thinking, from defining a project’s requirements through to delivery, which helps clients embed good information management at the heart of their businesses. Bond Bryan Digital’s work for the Department for Education has attracted acclaim, notably on the Gen Zero project – a prototype for net-zero schools – where it assessed and developed exchange information requirements and resources.

“An excellent organisation with great people doing the right things and developing the right tools to drive the industry forward in its digital capability and interoperability. Very impressive,” said the judges.

[edit] Digital collaboration of the year

The People’s Project – New Everton Football Stadium: Laing O’rourke With Bdp And Solibri

Laing O’Rourke and BDP worked with Solibri to create an extension to existing technology (Solibri Office) that enhances fire safety. The application, Fire
Stopping of Service Penetration Checks, has enhanced collaboration threefold:

it unifies responsible parties by requiring them to adhere to manufacturer specifications;
it encourages ownership by reducing the level of resources required to implement a robust fire safety process; and
it continually provides end-users with safety information that is 100% validated to help safely operate the building.

[edit] Digital innovation in asset management

A19 Norton To Wynyard: Atkins With Balfour Beatty And National Highways

Balfour Beatty Atkins has pushed new boundaries in the handover of major highway projects to maintenance contractors through its work on the A19 Norton to Wynyard project in the North East. B.B.A used the data-rich 3D project information model developed throughout design and construction to hand over a robust and accurate digital twin.

[edit] Digital innovation in productivity

The People’s Project – New Everton Football Stadium: Laing O’rourke With Trimble, Kashec And Fab Formwork And Reinforcement

During the delivery of Everton FC’s new stadium, Laing O’Rourke identified an opportunity to revolutionise reinforcement design, removing paper from the process and replacing it with an intelligent, user-friendly, more certain 3D approach.

Using Trimble Connect, Laing O’Rourke and its supply chain achieved a 500% time saving on ordering reinforcement and a 30% saving on fixing reinforcement.

[edit] Digital rising star of the year

Lauren Parsons, Business Analyst, FM Conway

Our Rising Star was working in the retail industry only six years ago – but since joining her current employer, a major infrastructure services contractor, she has played a vital role in their digital transformation.

Thanks to her efforts, the deployment of new software across all the contractor’s new projects is showing impressive efficiency gains, with progress reporting time slashed by 50% and her division transitioning to paperless site operations.

Her understanding of digital technology and ability to utilise new tools to meet the specific demands of any project has helped the company’s rapid embrace of digitisation, notably on its high-profile contract with Westminster City Council.

[edit] Digital innovation in health, safety and wellbeing Winner

Autobraking On Dump Trucks: Intelligent Autonomous Collision Avoidance Systems: L Lynch With Safety Shield Global And Scs Jv (Skanska Costain Strabag)

Lynch and the S.C.S JV approached Safety Shield to develop a bespoke system to enable dump trucks to recognise people within a 60m radius. Having identified a person, the machine will autonomously start braking at 10m coming to a controlled stop to 2m.On the test site, the technology helped to reduce people-plant incidents by 95%.

[edit] Digital construction champion of the year Winner

Su Butcher, Director, Just Practising

Our champion is action-orientated, and facilitates change. They mediate between manufacturers, built environment professionals and technology specialists with plain language, constant listening and questioning.

They have at least two formal job roles and a slew of informal ones. They have facilitated various key initiatives as author, instigator or key participant. Those initiatives include

A Fresh Way Forward for Product Data: State of the Nation for the UK BIM Alliance;
The plain language guide for the Institution of Engineering and Technology; and
The formation of the Bim for Housing Association and the editions of its toolkit.

Most recently, they have applied their communication skills to the challenge of cross-sector digital twins, authoring the Apollo Protocol and helping to organise the cross-sector hacks that form the Apollo Forum. Our champion is now writing the open-source operating principles and methodology for the forum.

She – and, yes, that might give you a clue – she continues to push for better communication and to ask the difficult questions: why isn’t change happening? What can we do about it?

For further details visit https://digitalconstructionawards.co.uk/winners/

This article is based on the press information published by the Digital construction awards 2023 winners page

--CIOB