Digital Construction Awards 2023: Laing O’Rourke, BDP and Solibri win Digital Collaboration of the Year

Not only that, the companies believe that their work also has the potential to foster greater collaboration throughout the construction industry.

Laing O’Rourke and BDP worked with Solibri to create an extension to existing technology (Solibri Office) that enhances fire safety.

The application, called Fire Stopping of Service Penetration Checks, has enhanced collaboration threefold:

The Everton FC new stadium project team has used Solibri’s digital solution to capture outcomes from early collaboration in the design process and translate them into installation instructions that subcontractors must adhere to.

Laing O’Rourke, BDP and Solibri are now exploring whether they can continue developing the technology and its application to create a free, industry-wide database that contains system information, such as product capabilities and constraints.

The companies believe that sharing this information has the potential for the industry to work together with the common goal of making buildings safer.

Ceren Evin Erkan, BIM manager at BDP, said: "This project was a first in the industry, we worked incredibly well together and shared everything.”

Estefania Alves, lead digital engineer at Laing O’Rourke, added: “Ours was definitely the Digital Collaboration of the Year. We collaborated as a team who are delivering a project, but we always had in mind as well that we were delivering something special for the industry, a solution that could be applied across the sector and not just our project.”

Read about the rest of the awards winners.

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