Summer 2025

Awards

After the huge success of the Conference and Awards in 2023, the 2024/2025 Digital Construction Live Awards will
continue to shine a spotlight on digital construction excellence by celebrating the achievements made within
the AEC industry. The Awards will celebrate and recognise excellence across the Construction Industry. So if
you procure, design, build or maintain assets in the built environment make sure you enter the Digital Construction Live Awards, taking place Summer 2025.

Awards Host
Pamela Ballantine

Northern Ireland TV Presenter

Bringing Industry Leaders Together

Venue: TBC
Closing Date: Monday 31st March 2025 at 6pm
Date of Event: Summer 2025

Categories and Criteria

Best Digital Transformation

This categories seeks to recognise companies that have gone the extra mile on the digital journey. Entries are encouraged from companies irrespective of size who can demonstrate clearly how they have transformed as an organisation through the adoption of digital, systems, processes or people.

Best Use of BIM

We want to celebrate the exceptional projects and people applying BIM (Building Information Modelling on projects across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of processes and how far you have pushed the adoption of BIM through incorporating technology and collaboration with other organisations.

Most Innovative Contractor

The last few years have driven innovation at a pace like never before. We have been blown away with advancement in construction methodology and the tools in use by companies large and small. This category is your opportunity to celebrate with industry some of your most innovative solutions to construction challenges.

Most Innovative Consultancy

We want to hear from the innovative consultants out there, from one person operations through to the global businesses, we recognise the huge role you have played in transforming our industry, this is your opportunity to tell us about the hard work that happens behind the scene.

Best Offsite/Modular Innovation

This category seeks to celebrate companies delivering exceptional products/components and complete offsite solutions. We want to hear about your approach to modular innovation whether you’re a supplier to that market or delivering complete building solutions this is your opportunity to raise the profile.

Best Asset Management Innovation

We want to recognise those driving advancement in asset management. Whether you are a provider of those services or a client operating existing estates driving forward innovative ways of adopting asset management. This sector is ever advancing in use of technology and processes, tell us how you or your organisation is pushing the boundaries of asset management and the value this delivers.

Best Use of Digital Construction for SHEQ

If you work in construction related Health, Safety, Quality or the Environmental field then this is the category for you to showcase how you are advancing through digital solutions. Data is vital in supporting exemplar SHEQ and the market is seeing a huge surge in digital construction products and solutions to support this, along with training and improved processes. Tell us about how you are supporting the delivery of these solutions or using them every day to drive improvement and efficiency in your organisation or for your clients.

Most Innovative New Software product

This category seeks to recognise companies that have gone the extra mile on the digital journey through the creation or advancement of a software product. Entries are encouraged from companies irrespective of size who can demonstrate clearly how they have developed a software product to transform how we work in the construction industry. Entries are encouraged irrespective of where they are on the development journey from concept through to fully available products.

Most innovative new product

This category seeks to recognise companies that have gone the extra mile on the digital journey through the creation or advancement of a product (non-software based). Entries are encouraged from companies irrespective of size who can demonstrate clearly how they have developed a product to transform how we work in the construction industry. Entries are encouraged irrespective of where they are on the development journey from concept through to fully available products.

Best new startup

We want to hear from an innovative Startup. (less than three years) Whether you are a micro SME or a Global company , we recognise the huge role you have played in transforming our industry, this is your opportunity to tell us about the hard work that happens behind the scenes.

Most Innovative digital project up to £5m

We want to celebrate an exceptional project (up to (£5M) showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a project of this size and complexity.

Most Innovative Digital Project £5m+

We want to celebrate an exceptional project (£5M +) showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a project of this size and complexity.

Most Innovative Infrastructure Project

We want to celebrate an exceptional infrastructure project showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a project of this size and complexity.

Most Innovative Public Sector Project

We want to celebrate an exceptional Public Sector project showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a project of this size and complexity.

Most Innovative Restoration / Refurb Project

We want to celebrate an exceptional Restoration / Refurb project showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a project of this size and complexity.

Excellence in Inclusion and Diversity

This category is open to a company that recognises the importance of diversity in the workplace and creates an inclusive environment in which all employees feel valued and can thrive. Judges will be looking for an organisation that is championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace.

Excellence in Workplace Health & Wellbeing

Is your organisation one that leads the way in health & wellbeing for your employees supported by innovative digital solutions? Do you encourage your employees to lead a healthy lifestyle both physically and mentally, perhaps through smart technology or use of incentive apps? The winner of this category will demonstrate a complete digitally enabled health and wellbeing strategy. This could be providing digitally enable work from home or hybrid working solutions to support mental and physical health and wellbeing, gym memberships, activity tracking, team outdoors challenges, healthy eating, cycle to work schemes or mental wellbeing support / facilities.

Most Innovative Sustainability initiative

We want to celebrate an exceptional Sustainability initiative showcasing digital ways of working across the UK and Ireland. We want to hear about your exceptional adoption of technology and processes and how far you have pushed digital innovation on a sustainability initiative of this size and complexity.

Digital Construction rising star 2024

This category recognises an individual who has played a key role in championing / pioneering digital transformation in an organisation, on a project or an industry sector during their first ten years in their career.

Digital Construction Champion 2024

This category recognises an individual who has played a key role in championing / pioneering digital transformation in an organisation, on a project or an industry sector during their career.

Judges

Jenny Green

Stefan Mordue

Shervin Yousefzadeh

Dr Robin Stubbs 

Tara Brooks

Mairead Gallagher Morgan

Paul Wilson

Grant Robinson

Event Partners

Partnership Opportunities
There are a number of different partnerships available for the 2024 Digital Construction Live
Bootcamps, Conference, Exhibition & Awards. For more info please contact event organiser Sarah Weir: sarah@weirevents.co.uk

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!

Attended by leading industry professionals, the awards ceremony offers you a unique opportunity to network, exchange ideas and celebrate with some of the very best.  This black-tie event is a must-attend for anyone in the Digital Construction Industry.

• Drinks reception
• Networking opportunities with industry peers
•  4 course meal with table wine
• Awards presentation
• Entertainment

Individual Tickets are £120 + VAT or a Table of Ten is £1100 + VAT. To reserve your tickets please email sarah@weirevents.co.uk or sophia@weirevents.co.uk

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Jenny Green

A chartered civil and structural engineer, as ICE Regional Director Jenny is responsible for working with more than 2,000 ICE members in Northern Ireland, enhancing their knowledge, promoting their expertise and helping the public better understand infrastructure.  She works with a wide range of industries, representative bodies, civil servants and politicians, to reinforce the importance of infrastructure to our quality of life.

Jenny spent more than ten years practicing as a structural design engineer, both in London and Northern Ireland, with experience in the design and structural modelling of education, healthcare and residential structures.

Stefan Mordue

Stefan is the Senior Program Manager for Education and Partnerships at Bentley Systems, where he collaborates with universities, colleges, and schools to drive educational innovation through Digital Twins. He is a chartered Architect, Construction Project Manager, and published author. Stefan was a founding member of the CIC BIM 2050 group and participates in several industry and technical standards committees, including the Architects Council of Europe (ACE) BIM Working Group and the CIOB Digital & Innovation Advisory Panel. Stefan has co-authored several books on BIM and has  received awards from CIOB, Leeds Beckett University, Generation for Change, Constructing Excellence, and Digital Construction Live in recognition of his contributions to the construction industry.

Shervin Yousefzadeh

Shervin Yousefzadeh is an experienced Digital Construction Manager with over 8 years of experience in successfully implementing BIM/DC technologies across a variety of projects in the public and private sectors. Currently, he is a key member of the BAM Nuttall Digital Construction team, leading and managing the digital transformation of the multi-billion pound Transpennine Route Upgrade – West project. Shervin has extensive experience in digital construction across a broad range of sectors, including commercial, nuclear, rail, highways, and bridges.

Robin Stubbs

Robin has been lecturing in SETU’s Department of Architecture and Built Environment since 2001. During this time, he has held multiple roles from Lecturing, Course Leadership, Programme Development to Researcher and PI. He co-initiated the SABRE Research Centre which aims to enhance the research capabilities across the Department on all fronts. He is also Chair on the Build Digital Project. Robin has served on numerous accreditation and assessment boards and acted as External Examiner on numerous programs across Ireland and the UK. Robin is currently external examiner at Wolverhampton University and International board member of the PAC at Fanshawe University in Ontario, Canada.

Robin was the successful recipient of a Harvard scholarship to complete an internship at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris, before working in industry in London and Dublin before returning to complete a Masters in Urban and Building Conservation from University College Dublin (UCD). He holds a PhD from University of Glasgow on Virtual Environments, Reinterpreting the Built Heritage.

 

He is currently the Head of Department of Architecture & Built Environment and  PI on the innovative EPA-funded research project combining digital twin technology with landscape biography methodology for the environmental analysis of a coastal region in County Waterford.

Tara Brooks

Tara Brooks is a senior lecturer at Queen’s University with 20 years’ construction industry experience. She qualified as a chartered Architect at UCL in 2000 and worked in London for companies including Foster and Partners as an Architect and then Associate. She moved to Belfast and in 2010 started working as a Bid Manager in the contracting sector. She is currently the programme director for the MSc in BIM Project Management at Queen’s.

Returning to university as a mature student, she studied part time for an MSc in Construction Project Management at Queen’s, completing in 2014. She gained her PhD in 2020. 

Her areas of research interest include construction quality management, procurement and BIM and emerging digital technology. Tara seeks to bridge academic research, teaching and practice, as exemplified by her participation in successful KTP Projects, including those looking at BIM implementation, digital tool exploitation, and BIM automation.

Mairead Gallagher Morgan

Mairead is an accomplished architectural professional with a diverse background in architecture, digital strategy, information management, and BIM. She now serves as the BIM Lead for Europe and the Middle East at internationally acclaimed global architecture practice Grimshaw’s.

Previously, Mairead was the Specialist UK BIM Innovation Lead at Buro Happold, where she focused on leading the Specialist Consulting BIM team. She drove digital, computational, and technological innovation across several disciplines such as fire engineering, façade engineering, technology, acoustic engineering, security, and specialist lighting. In this role, she also worked as the Specialist BIM Lead, delivering multi-disciplinary packages on numerous complex global giga buildings and infrastructure projects, closely collaborating with the wider design teams.

Before her tenure at Buro Happold, Mairead worked at Alford Hall Monaghan Morris, one of the top five UK architectural practices. Her 19-year career in architectural practice spans various sectors, including tall buildings, major projects, education, justice, commercial architecture, high-end residential, build-to-rent, retail, and interior design.

Mairead is also a Women in BIM Regional Lead and Women in BIM Mentor, contributing to diversity and inclusion within the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry since the inception of the WIB mentor scheme five years ago. As an ambitious individual and working mother, she actively participates in ambassador roles, panel discussions, and advocacy for diversity and inclusion. “

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson is Digital Director for AECOM Europe & India. He has over 24 years’ experience working through an integrated project lifecycle with both clients and supply chain for the successful implementation of BIM and Digital Technologies across the globe. Paul works hands-on with teams delivering projects of all sizes and market sectors.  His work to develop strategy for his clients and projects ensures world-class solutions are used for efficient and effective transformational outcomes to AECOMS client’s problems. Paul manages strategy and AECOM’s Digital Business Line Leads and subject matter experts delivering digital & technical excellence across AECOMS business.

Grant Robinson

Grant, who is currently General Manager at AMEY, has a comprehensive knowledge of the construction industry and asset management service sectors. Grant has extensive experience in setting up and delivering through Construction Joint Ventures, adding value and turnover through large-scale infrastructure projects in contractually complex structures within the context of alternative funding mechanisms.

Over the year’s Grant has managed large scale infrastructure from the BID to Financial Close, through to design and delivery and into the Operations phase, delivering on the  shareholders business objectives. 

Grant has delivered Major Acute, and primary Heath Care Projects in the UK, delivered over fifty education projects from primary/post primary to further and higher education throughout the UK and Ireland.

Grant currently works on PFI Roads projects in the UK and Ireland and has a vast experience in dispute avoidance and resolution including, mediation, conciliation, expert determination, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.