The entry deadline for the Digital Construction Awards – 17 March – is rapidly approaching. Not sure if you should enter? Listen to the reaction of some of last year’s winners.
The winners of the 2022 Digital Construction Awards have given a collective thumbs-up to last year’s event and the positive impact of their success.
Vinci won the Best Use of Data on a Project category for work on the HCA Cancer Care Hospital in Birmingham. Marco Bonelli, digital lead of Vinci Building, said: “Winning the award demonstrated that we were on the right track to improve our digital project delivery. The award increased interest in the data project, allowing us to apply our innovation across multiple projects more quickly.”
Eurovia UK and Paperless Construction won the Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing award. Eurovia UK digital construction manager Philip Reid said: “It was great to be recognised, but also to help highlight the good solutions available to others, so that we can raise everyone up.”
Skanska UK – Infrastructure secured the Digital Excellence in a Construction Business category for its development of a digital twin for infrastructure, which involved integrating GIS and BIM data. George Floros, GIS lead for Skanska UK – Infrastructure, said: “We had a fantastic team and this award is testament to our innovation.”
‘Thrilled to be recognised’
David Mitchell, CEO and founder of XYZ Reality, developer of the Atom augmented reality helmet that won the Digital Innovation in On-site Productivity category, said: “As a tech start-up finding our feet within the industry, we were thrilled to be recognised among many great long-standing companies in the ConTech space. Since winning the award, we’ve been inundated with industry interest about how engineering-grade augmented reality can reduce rework.”
Emma Hooper, associate director, head of R&D at Bond Bryan Digital, was named the Digital Construction Champion of the Year. “Winning the award has genuinely meant the world to me. Having my work recognised among the industry and my peers – and it being of value – there is nothing more I could ever ask for.
“When I have times where I doubt myself and my ideas, I think about the award and the people who put their faith in me, and that helps give me the confidence I need to push a bit harder. It is like having a hug from the industry.”
The Digital Construction Awards celebrate best practice and reward innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built environment sector, and will take place at a gala dinner on 4 July 2023 at The Brewery in London.
Partners for the awards are Digital Construction Week, the Chartered Institute of Building, and Construction Management and BIMplus.
To find out more, go to www.digital constructionawards.co.uk.
