Digital Construction Awards 2023: Laing O’Rourke wins Digital Innovation in Productivity

The R&D was carried out by the digital construction lead and a reinforcement fixer with 15 years’ experience.

Trimble Connect was identified as the best solution and was tested with the reinforcement fixers.

Using Trimble Connect enabled:

Laing O’Rourke was not simply a passive user of the software, developing it further.

The measurable benefits are compelling. The contractor has saved 550 man hours on preparing mark-ups and drawings by capturing all the interfaces on the 3D model. It is also 500% quicker when ordering reinforcement by enabling the team to automatically create order schedules, just by clicking on parts of the 3D model. And document control time has been reduced by 33% by delivering the requisite information quicker.

Furthermore, steel fixing is approximately 30% quicker.

Gregory Deane, section engineer at Laing O’Rourke, and Ellis McNulty, senior engineer at Expanded, said: “There were some great nominations out there, but what we all have to do, everyone that was in the Digital Construction Awards room, is to make a pledge to put digital first.”

Read about the rest of the awards winners.

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