Heathrow Airport’s Digital Asset Delivery team won Digital Team of the Year (sponsored by nima – news) at the Digital Construction Awards 2026. Nima (in association with Construction Management, DC+ and Digital Construction Week) talked to members of the Heathrow Team about how they won the award in an hour-long webinar on 14 May 2026….
Efforts for preparing full-scale project delivery for this SSEN Transmission project ran from January 2025 to the present. The challenge was twofold: roll out a new CDE, while delivering a live, standardised high-voltage direct current converter (HVDC) station design across multiple sites. This is the first UK-wide standardised converter station design, developed in two variants: coastal (with…
Mott MacDonald’s information management (IFM) team is 35-strong and spans engineering, computer science, mathematics and urban planning with diverse nationalities and experience levels. The IFM works closely with internal teams and clients, including contractors and owner-operators, to implement digital tools, data systems and processes. It provides robust frameworks for information governance and model management, and introduced…
LSI Architects’ digital technology team has been exploring how AI can be integrated into workflows. While AI assistants within CAD software will become increasingly capable of manipulating geometry and data, LSI recognises that robust verification systems are essential to maintaining high-quality outputs. Existing QA processes, operating under 9001 Quality Management standards, rely on manual checks…
Heathrow is one of the world’s most complex infrastructure environments. It has a £4.5bn portfolio, including 450 projects, and 412 project managers, along with thousands of staff from delivery partners. Capital projects delivery has faced significant risks due to fragmented and poor-quality asset data, causing delays, cost overruns and inefficiencies. Implementing changes was further complicated…
Bowmer + Kirkland’s (B+K) four-person digital construction team was first established in 2016, but as the business expanded, it struggled to support more than 85 projects. The team was expanded from four to 12, with improved regional representation, project support and collaboration. B+K delivered more than 2,000 hours of targeted training and established dedicated knowledge-sharing…
As the main works civil contractor for HS2 Area North, Balfour Beatty Vinci’s (BBV) BIM team plays a critical role in delivering structured, high-quality openBIM data to the employer. A key focus of its work is ensuring all 3D model information is correctly categorised and organised to support efficient data consumption in the operation and…
Balfour Beatty set out to harness AI, empowering innovation, better decision-making and competition by committing to a £7.2m investment in Microsoft Copilot – one of the largest AI investments in UK construction. In March 2025, Balfour Beatty formed the Copilot transformation team to design and deliver an AI transformation programme for its 13,000-strong UK workforce….
[This case study is reproduced with kind permission of the Digital Construction Awards, and is for a 2026 finalist shortlisted for Digital Team of the Year – a category sponsored by nima. Read all the shortlisted profiles on Digital Construction Plus. The winner will be revealed at the Awards dinner on 18 March at the…
In 2024, XD House (a design consultancy based in London and Dubai) embarked on its journey to obtain ISO 19650 Kitemark certification as an Appointed Party. The Challenge Among the most pressing obstacles was finding a way to align with ISO 19650 standards without relying on the industry’s conventional methods, such as static Microsoft Office documents which…
