The winners of the TechFest Awards 2025 were announced tonight in a gala ceremony at the Hilton Metropole in London.<\/p>\n
Categories showcased the cutting edge of digital transformation in the built environment, spanning a wide range of disciplines including AI, robotics, digital twins, data analytics, net-zero technologies and future-focused leadership.<\/p>\n
Winners were recognised across 20 categories from a shortlist of 143 entries, ranging from disruptive startups to established tier one firms.<\/p>\n
They were assessed by a panel of 84 expert judges representing a variety of roles and responsibilities within the construction and engineering industries.<\/p>\n
\u201cPicking winners from a diverse and compelling shortlist is never easy, and this year certainly put our judges through their paces,\u201d said Construction News <\/em>deputy editor Ben Vogel, who co-hosted the ceremony with his counterpart at New Civil Engineer, <\/em>Belinda Smart.<\/p>\n \u201cThis year\u2019s crop of winners showed how technology is now utterly central to our sector,\u201d Vogel said.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom smarter data capture, management and utilisation to advanced digital platforms, enhanced connectivity and automation, the work done by this year\u2019s winners was hugely impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n Tier one contractors Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O\u2019Rourke were among the winners. The former won Digital Construction Project of the Year for its work at 1 Broadgate in London, while the latter won the Best Use of Technology: Site Productivity award.<\/p>\n Multiple winners at this year\u2019s awards event included Mott MacDonald with three awards. Individually, it won the Digital Consultant of the Year and Best Use of Technology: Carbon Reduction in Design accolades. And its JV with JN Bentley was also successful in the Digital Contractor of the Year category.<\/p>\n Feraru Dynamics picked up the Best Use of Technology: Health, Safety & Wellbeing and Product Innovation of the Year trophies.<\/p>\n Ultrabeam also did the double, winning the Innovation Accelerator and Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection for Asset Management awards.<\/p>\n Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Artificial Intelligence – BuildPrompt, AI to automate digital handover<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Carbon Reduction in Design –\u00a0Mott MacDonald, Moata Carbon Portal: scaling decarbonisation across the grid<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Carbon Reduction in Construction and Management –\u00a0Cardiff Metropolitan University, Halve the Half: The sector-wide opportunity for cost and carbon reduction<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Design Efficiency –\u00a0M Group, MWorks<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Digital Engineering – Arup, data-driven approach to inflow and infiltration in Gloucester<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Health, Safety & Wellbeing – Feraru Dynamics, HAV-Sentry for hand-arm vibration prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Site Productivity – Laing O\u2019Rourke, ConQuik concrete management\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection for Asset Management –\u00a0Ultrabeam, 3D drone underwater inspections<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection in Construction – Development Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR, automating digital handover<\/strong><\/p>\n Best use of Technology: Digital Construction – Staticus, facade management platform<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Construction Project of the Year – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1 Broadgate<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Transport Project of the Year – East Coast Digital Programme, Tornado: the world\u2019s first operational steam locomotive to be fitted with ETCS technology<\/strong><\/p>\n Organisations<\/strong><\/p>\n Technology Supplier of the Year – Method Grid<\/strong><\/p>\n Innovation Accelerator –\u00a0Ultrabeam<\/strong><\/p>\n Product Innovation of the Year – Feraru Dynamics, HAV-Sentry<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Contractor of the Year – Mott MacDonald Bentley<\/strong><\/p>\n Software Innovation of the Year \u2013 Preoptima, PACER platform<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Consultant of the Year – Mott MacDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n Individuals<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Rising Star – Aman Khandelwal, <\/strong>Tetra Tech<\/strong><\/p>\n Tech and Digital Team of the Year – WSP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winners of the TechFest Awards 2025 were announced tonight in a gala ceremony at the Hilton Metropole in London. Categories showcased the cutting edge of digital transformation in the built environment, spanning a wide range of disciplines including AI, robotics, digital twins, data analytics, net-zero technologies and future-focused leadership. Winners were recognised across 20 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"\nFull list of award winners:<\/strong><\/h2>\n