2025 WINNERS

McLaren has created a 22-strong digital information management team in-house to implement a five-year digital strategy set by the board in 2022.

The digital information management team has succeeded in delivering user-friendly systems and driving culture change, elevating the status of information management and data across McLaren.

Laing O’Rourke has transformed Risk Assessment Method Statement compliance with its bespoke e-Rams solution. Developed in-house and integrated with Asite, Azure S.Q.L and Power B.I, the system replaces inefficient, paper-based processes with an automated, cloud-based platform that ensures real-time visibility of worker briefings and compliance data.

Overall, e-Rams delivers an estimated £150,000 in annual savings per project, and safety non-compliance incidents have dropped by 30%.

Isabelle joined WSP in January 2024 as a digital construction consultant. By the summer of 2024, she became a critical member of the digital services team, delivering a large defence project.

Six months later, she led a project, managing the team delivering digital construction requirements for the new Eden Project. She is also a representative for the WSP Professional Growth Network and has successfully represented the UK in the World Skills competition.

BIMBox developed a data-first strategy to tackle three major challenges on the Frimley Park Hospital: achieving sustainability and Cafm goals; coordinating offsite and onsite modular construction; and delivering the project without disrupting hospital operations.

A combination of a 19650-compliant framework with a custom Information Delivery Specification, laser scanning and tailored dashboards produced fantastic results, including halving the 70-week construction schedule.

The Restore project integrates non-destructive testing, machine learning and BIM into a web-based generative design tool. This tool enables engineers to assess used steel members, predict their performance and embed them into new projects from the outset.

Used on live projects, Restore has demonstrated the ability to raise steel reuse from 15% to a projected 50%.

The S.M.P Alliance faced many challenges, including secure collaboration and information management, and different levels of digital maturity. These challenges were addressed by the partners’ digital engineering and information management specialists operating as one team.

They developed an information management system, where processes are centrally referenced, including a common coding standard for documents, geometrical and alphanumerical data.

Pre-construction times have been reduced by up to 60%. The alliance has realised nearly £100m in efficiencies.

Our winner is an active champion for digital transformation across industry, working with clients and industry groups to demonstrate the value of digital innovation.

I’ll get to her day-job in a minute, but her extra-curricular work is something to behold. She is a regional lead for Women in BIM, she sits on the Building Safety Alliance’s special interest group for the golden thread, and she is on the BIM4Water steering group.
In the past year, her speeches and presentations have reached more than 1,000 audience members.

She guest-lectures at Newcastle University, Northumbria University and Edinburgh Napier University. She sits on the advisory board at the latter.

Somehow, she finds time for her day-job – and this might give away her identity. She’s an associate, leading a new division, where she promotes the idea that digital innovation is accessible to everyone with the right strategy.

She’s supporting Muse Places to comply with the golden thread; she’s led a significant digital transformation programme for Northumbrian Water Group; she’s supporting various NHS trusts with their digital requirements; and she led the development of the digital twin strategy for a premium car-maker that we’re not allowed to name.

Ultimately, her passion lies in making digital transformation accessible by bridging the gap between technical complexity and plain language. By fostering intelligent clients through better information management, she continues to drive meaningful change across the industry.