Laing O’Rourke, AtkinsRéalis, McLaren Construction, RLB Digital and Heathrow were among the winners last night (18 March) at the Digital Construction Awards 2026.
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The awards were presented at a sold-out London Marriott Grosvenor Square. Laing O’Rourke won the prestigious Digital Construction Project of the Year, sponsored by Trimble, for its work on the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford.
Laing O’Rourke also featured in another winning entry: its BYLOR joint venture with Bouygues Travaux Publics won Digital Innovation in Productivity, sponsored by Sage, for its work on Hinkley Point C.
Also in the nuclear sector, AtkinsRéalis won Best Application of Technology for Industry X, a platform that fuses IoT sensors, robotics, AI and cloud services into a single Azure-hosted web platform, designed for Sellafield.
McLaren Construction scooped the Digital Contractor of the Year trophy.
Heathrow’s digital asset delivery team secured the Digital Team of the Year award, sponsored by nima.
Digital Collaboration of the Year, sponsored by Bluebeam, was won by United Utilities Enterprise and IAND for their work in bringing together eight delivery partners and more than 300 suppliers into a single digital ecosystem on United Utilities’ AMP 8 programme in the north-west of England.
RLB Digital won the Information Management Best Practice category for its Project Colin, which addresses the elephant in the room when adopting a data-driven approach: documents.
Balfour Beatty Vinci assistant information manager Emine Rachel Taylor-Unlu was presented with the Digital Rising Star of the Year trophy, sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Building.
Arup and IESVE won the Design Innovation category for their work on the Mynydd Isa Campus in Flintshire.
Not just the big names
But it wasn’t all about well-known industry players: Drone Surveying won Digital Consultancy of the Year, while new products NavLive, Harmony Fire’s Auro Door and Quintessential Design’s Quin Pod, App and Tag emerged victorious in the Best Use of AI, Product Innovation of the Year and Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing categories, respectively.
ONE Creative Environments won the Asset Management Best Practice category, while Cardiff Metropolitan University won the Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation award.
Finally, Dr Anne Kemp OBE, chair of nima and convenor of the 19650 suite of standards, was named Digital Construction Champion of the Year, sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Building.
Comedian Ed Byrne entertained the audience and hosted the prize-giving.
The Digital Construction Awards are organised by Digital Construction Week, DC+, Construction Management and the Chartered Institute of Building. To find out more about the Awards, visit digitalconstructionawards.co.uk.
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