The Digital Construction Awards 2025 are now open for entry. The deadline to compete for an industry Oscar is 7 March 2025.
The Digital Construction Awards 2025 celebrate best practice and reward innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built and managed environments.
New categories have been added to the 13 that featured at the 2024 Awards. These include Digital Team of the Year, which recognises the team driving digital transformation and/or information management best practice within their business. Also new is Best Use of AI. And the Design Innovation category recognises the best use of digital technology and data to enhance the practical aspects of building and project design for successful delivery.
Existing categories have also been updated.
The full list of categories is:
- Digital Construction Project of the Year
- Digital Contractor of the Year
- Digital Consultancy of the Year
- Digital Team of the Year
- Digital Collaboration of the Year
- Digital Rising Star of the Year
- Digital Construction Champion of the Year
- Best Application of Technology
- Product Innovation of the Year
- Information Management Best Practice
- Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation
- Asset Management Best Practice
- Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing
- Digital Innovation in Productivity
- Best Use of AI
- Design Innovation
The entry deadline is 9 March. The shortlisted entrants will be revealed on 6 May. The trophies will be awarded to the winners at a gala dinner on 1 July 2025 at The Brewery in London.
Partners for the Awards are Digital Construction Week, the Chartered Institute of Building, and Construction Management and BIMplus.
The industry’s Oscars
Will Mann, editor of Construction Management, said: “We were overwhelmed by the reaction to the 2024 Awards – there were more than 160 entries, and 450 digital construction professionals attended the gala dinner. We’re proud to stage the Awards again – the industry’s Oscars – and we look forward to celebrating the progress the industry is making.”
Justin Stanton, BIMplus editor, added: “We’ve tweaked the categories, so please read the entry criteria in plenty of time. Wherever you are in the built and managed environment supply chains, there’s a category that will allow you to showcase your work.”
Ollie Hughes, co-founder of Digital Construction Week, concluded: “To ensure the best of the best receive the recognition they deserve, we are expanding our judging panel, bringing in further sector experts. No matter which categories you enter, one of the keys to success will be evidence.”
Previous winners
Among 2024’s winners were AtkinsRéalis, which won two trophies for two very different projects. Working with the Geospatial Commission, it won Digital Innovation in Productivity, for the National Underground Asset Register. It also won Best Application of Technology for its Virtual Site Access approach in the nuclear sector.
Balfour Beatty secured the coveted title of Digital Construction Project of the Year for its work on the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.
McLaughlin & Harvey was named Digital Contractor of the Year, while Sir Robert McAlpine was victorious in the Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation category thanks to its work with materials passports on the 1 Broadgate project.
The team of United Utilities, MWH Treatment, Stantec and J Murphy Sons secured the Digital Collaboration of the Year trophy for their work on the Oswestry Water Treatment Works.
Laing O’Rourke digital engineer Ben Hardie won the Digital Rising Star of the Year trophy, and Pam Bhandal was named Digital Construction Champion of the Year.
The Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing trophy went to the Health & Safety Executive’s Discovering Safety programme for its trial of safety zone sensors.
The Best Use of Data On A Project trophy was won by iDEA, which developed a digital campus to help King’s College London with its campus masterplan.
Queenswood won the Digital Consultancy of the Year award for the key role it played in minimising project delays on HS2.
One Creative Environments won the Product Innovation of the Year trophy for its ONE Engage building safety platform.
And Ulster University won the Digital Innovation in Asset Management award for its virtual campus.
To find out more about the Awards, head to digitalconstructionawards.co.uk
To become an Awards sponsor, email Karolina Orecchini – [email protected]
For entry queries, email Justin Stanton – [email protected]
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