Taking place on the opening night of UKCW Birmingham, this year’s Building Innovation Awards once again offers up a star-studded cast of finalists
Get your motorcycles running and rev those engines in salute to this year’s contenders at the Building Innovation Awards 2026 – the list of finalists for this year’s contest has officially been announced.
If the reference to motorbikes seems a little random for a show dedicated to innovation in the construction and built environment sectors, fear not – it’ll make sense (one hopes) once you realise where the awards are being held this year.
They say a change is as good as a rest, but there’s more to it than that; this year, the glitz and glamour of the Building Innovation Awards is taking place at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) & Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
The awards are returning for their seventh year celebrating the successes of the organisations and people that are transforming construction. This year, however, they take place alongside UK Construction Week (UKCW), making for a spectacular opening night on the 29 September.
It represents a powerful synergy, a chance for guests to continue the networking and the discussion beyond the exhibition, with an evening of entertainment, a gala dinner, and the chance to applaud their peers into the bargain.
Build in Digital, meanwhile, returns to UKCW for the fourth year running as a content partner, once again curating the Digitalisation & AI Stage.
On the night, there are 29 awards up for grabs, and once again competition for the prizes is fierce. The judges faced some tough decisions assessing the record number of entries to determine who has earned their place in the spotlight. The rest of us – like the winners – will find out at the ceremony.
For now, we can savour the list of finalists. It’s certainly a star-studded cast, featuring well-known names as well as plenty of up-and-comers; between them, they represent an industry that is no stranger to challenge, but nonetheless rises to meet them.
So, without further ado, let’s meet the finalists of the Building Innovation Awards 2026. It promises to be quite the night. But maybe leave your motorcycles at home…
Building Innovation Awards 2026
Tuesday 29 September 2026 | Opening Night of UK Construction Week
National Conference Centre & Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham
Find out more about the Building Innovation Awards and book your place here
The finalists in the Building Innovation Awards 2026
Best Use of Advanced Materials
B&K Hybrid Solutions
Kenoteq
Material Evolution
XD House Limited
Best Use of Visualisation Technology
MX Reality
Origin7
VIS Systems
Visible Aspect
Best Digital Transformation
Access UK Ltd
Exactly Tech
Morgan Sindall
RLB Digital
Symetri Limited
TCW
Unimo Technology Ltd
Most Innovative SME
Build Test Solutions
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
EvoEnergy
Origin7
TALO
XD House Limited
Most Innovative Urban Regeneration Project
Bridgewater Road Bridge – Kilnbridge
Mayfield, Manchester City Centre – Landsec
Marshall Walk, Inns Court, Bristol – ZED PODS Limited
Best Carbon Reduction Innovation or Practice
AG Paving + Building Products
Aireavu
Bellway
HiboCare International Limited
HLW
Integrated Health Projects
NZC Solutions
One Creative Environments Ltd
Vistry
Best Energy Efficiency Innovation
Aireavu
Air Source Heat Pump Optimisation – Bellway
Solar PV Monitoring & Decarbonisation – Connexin
Rooftop Solar PV System – EvoEnergy
HiboScreen – HiboCare International Limited
IES Live – IES
Most Innovative Build Process Using MMC
JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
TALO (Entered by Bridges PR)
ZED PODS Limited
Best Health & Safety Innovation
Boxcore
CMT Group
HammerTech
Harris Brick Safety Systems
Quin
Safety Shield
Best Approach to Company Culture & Wellbeing
4PS by Hilti
Murphy
OryxAlign
Telehouse Europe
Best Asset Management Innovation
Auro
EvoEnergy
Fexillon
Glider Technology
SmartViz Ltd
TCW
Zutec Inc. (UK) Ltd.
Best Retrofit Innovation or Project
Connected Home Solution – Aico
76 Southbank – Eckersley O’Callaghan
HiboScreen – HiboCare International Limited
HMP Channings Wood – Kier Construction Limited
Bramley House – Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
Great Yarmouth Learning Hub – The Place – Morgan Sindall
Warwick District Council’s St Nicholas Leisure Centre – SIG Building SOLUTION
Claridge House – Studio PDP
Most Sustainable Building Project
Tesco Low-Carbon Concept Store, Harrogate – B&K Hybrid Solutions
Principality Stadium Solar PV Installation, Cardiff – EvoEnergy
M-Plaza Thalkirchen – M-Park Thalkirchen – FC REF VIII GmbH
Countess of Chester Women & Children’s Hospital – Integrated Health Projects
One North Quay, Canary Wharf – Kilnbridge
25 Trego Road, Hackney – KNT Development
Frank Lee Centre Decarbonisation Scheme, Addenbrooke’s Hospital – R G Carter Cambridge Limited
Claridge House – Studio PDP
Gwel Basset, Redruth – Vistry
Most Innovative Affordable Housing Project
Dagenham Green – Peabody Housing
YorSpace at Lowfield Green – Resonance Ltd
Pearson Place, Trafford Waters – Rowlinson
Fortis House, Ashford – ZED PODS Limited
Most Innovative Partnership
Bellway
Safety Shield
Taylor Wimpey plc
ZIGURAT Institute of Technology
Most Innovative Contech Startup
Boxcore
BuildScout
JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
Krane
ORNA Group
Prolo
Unimo
Vateris (formerly Concrete4Change)
XD House Limited
Best Use of Remote Monitoring Technology
Aireavu
EvoEnergy
MX Reality
Sky Revolutions Ltd
Vericon Systems
VIS Systems
Best Use of Data on a Construction Project
BuildScout
Collen – Beserk
Collen – Microsoft Fabric
Sir Robert McAlpine
XD House Limited
Best Use of Automation or AI
Aireavu
Collen – Beserk
Exactly Tech
Giatec
JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
Prolo
Safety Shield
Trackunit
VIS Systems
XD House Limited
Best Technology Partner
Access UK Ltd
Alice Technologies
BIMCollab
innDex limited
Open ECX
Placechangers
SDS Infrastructure
Sustain IQ
Symetri Limited
Xperience Group
Most Innovative Supplier
ACS Stainless Steel Fixings
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
Keylite Roof Windows
Sustain IQ
Thermolysis Co. Ltd
Whitecroft Lighting Limited
Most Innovative Contractor
CMT Design and Construction Ltd
Collen
Kier Construction Limited
Lovell Renew (Lovell Partnerships Ltd)
Ventro Group
Most Innovative New Product (Hardware)
Heat3D – Build Test Solutions
NestClad – Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
Composite Twin Track Cantilever – Composite Braiding Ltd
H1Z2Z2-K Multicore Braided Cable – EvoEnergy
WLTR — Wall Laying Terra-Based Robot – JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
MevoXL – Material Evolution
Sealshield – Premier Sealant Systems (Sealprem)
SDS Intellistorm® Smart Rainwater Management System with SDS SYMBiotIC™ – SDS Infrastructure
Most Innovative New Product (Digital)
Access Evo – Access UK Ltd
Aireavu – Aireavu
ALICE Schedule Insights Agent – Alice Technologies
Carbon Sherpa Toolkit – Carbon Sherpa Limited
Digital Building Logbook – GS1UK
3D U-Value Calculator – Knauf Insulation
TrainMe – Laing O’Rourke
People Centred Building Intelligence – SmartViz Ltd
XDHouse.AI – XD House Limited
Professional Services Partner of the Year
Buro Happold
NZC Solutions
Origin7
OryxAlign
Symetri Limited
Watson Farley & Williams
ZIGURAT Institute of Technology
Smart Building Project of the Year
Aireavu & Portakabin Smart Building Project – Aireavu
mXlens – Smarter Project Assurance at Maple Close – MX Reality
One Broadgate – Sir Robert McAlpine
Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year
Solar PV Monitoring and Decarbonisation Project – Connexin
Dublin Campus Microgrid – Pure Data Centres Group
RSPAWIR Intelligent Water Management Project – SDS Infrastructure
West Data Centre Cooling Upgrade Project – Telehouse Europe
Digital Construction Team of the Year
Collen
Origin7
RLB Digital
Sir Robert McAlpine
Symetri Limited
Innovator of the Year 2026
Anas Ayoub – XD House Limited
Jan Telensky – JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
Jason Whittall – One Creative Environments Ltd
René Morkos – Alice Technologies
Scott Pilgrim – RLB Digital
Building Innovation of the Year 2026
Editor’s choice award
The winner will be announced on the night
Find out more about the Building Innovation Awards and book your place here
Learn a little more about this year’s finalists
Best Use of Advanced Materials
B&K Hybrid Solutions
Fife College’s Dunfermline Learning Campus is the first hybrid CLT-DELTABEAM® project in the UK and Scotland’s first net-zero-ready tertiary education building. B&K Hybrid Solutions delivered a pioneering hybrid structural solution, combining CLT, structural steel and DELTABEAM® units spanning 20,000m2 across four floors, to achieve an outstanding 20% reduction in embodied carbon.
Kenoteq
Kenoteq’s low carbon circular economy approach to traditional brick production is driving a net zero UK built environment. The unfired, low carbon K-BRIQ is made from over 90% recycled UK construction and demolition waste and is a low risk, technically comparable masonry substitute with no impact to construction programmes.
Material Evolution
MevoXL, Material Evolution’s concrete admixture, cuts embodied carbon by up to 80% while boosting strength and holding costs neutral. In an Environment Agency and RPC Contracts trial, it raised PFA content from 14% to 30%, cutting carbon 20% and increasing strength 56%, at unchanged cost.
XD House
XD House delivered an audited USD 5m-plus material saving on Kuwait International Airport Terminal 2 through algorithmic precision, then productised that capability. XDH Cladding is live on the Dubai Police Academy and Sharjah International Airport. XDH Landscape is operational on the Qiddiya Water Park Hotel.
Best Use of Visualisation Technology
MX Reality
mXreality’s mXlens platform is transforming housing construction by combining cameras, data, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to improve project visibility, strengthen governance and support timely funding decisions. By providing trusted visual evidence of progress, it reduces costs, enhances collaboration and gives developers, lenders and project teams greater confidence throughout construction.
Origin7
Origin7 is an award-winning digital construction consultancy redefining how the built environment is visualised, understood and delivered. Through innovative use of digital twins, Scan-to-BIM, reality capture and immersive technologies, Origin7 is improving project outcomes, accelerating decision-making and helping shape the future of construction through industry leadership, education and collaboration.
VIS Systems
VIS Systems’ VISion AI uses computer vision to turn live construction footage into real-time visual intelligence, rendering PPE breaches, zonal risks and compliance trends on a shared dashboard. The construction industry’s first fully automated AI PPE detection system, it is now live with major UK contractors, delivering 95%+ accuracy.
Visible Aspect
Visible Aspect pioneers advanced multi sensor visualisation technology that enhances building diagnostics, design accuracy and stakeholder collaboration. By combining RTK aerial imaging, thermal analysis, LiDAR and immersive 3D modelling, the company delivers clearer decision making, earlier risk detection and more efficient project outcomes, setting a new benchmark for data driven construction practice.
Best Digital Transformation
Access UK Ltd
On one of Europe’s largest water infrastructure programmes, a joint venture transformed commercial control with Access Coins, moving it from month-end to the point of entry. Coding errors fell from 17% to 0.5%, supplier disputes halved and aged debt dropped 30%.
Exactly Tech
SmartFix is transforming the way Muir delivers repairs by connecting people, processes and technology into one intelligent service platform. Through dynamic scheduling, real-time visibility, mobile working and enhanced customer engagement, SmartFix empowers Muir to deliver faster repairs, better outcomes and a modern digital experience for customers and colleagues alike.
Morgan Sindall
The NNUH Diagnostic and Assessment Centre demonstrated how augmented reality can transform construction project delivery. By enabling healthcare stakeholders to visualise and interact with the building before completion, the project improved collaboration, accelerated feedback, enhanced decision-making and established a repeatable model for digital engagement
RLB Digital
RLB Digital has transformed how digital is applied across construction by combining structured information management with practical technology delivery. Through major client programmes and initiatives such as Project Colin, the team has delivered measurable improvements in cost, efficiency and data quality, helping clients move from fragmented systems.
Symetri Limited
Symetri is a consultancy-led technology partner helping organisations across the built environment overcome some of their most pressing challenges, including improving productivity, managing data, increasing delivery capacity, reducing risk, achieving sustainability goals and navigating regulatory compliance.
TCW
TCW is transforming the way social housing providers manage statutory compliance by embedding decades of regulatory expertise into a digital platform. Supporting over 157 housing providers and 3.36 million homes, TCW is redefining compliance through intelligent technology that delivers better decisions, greater accountability and continuous assurance.
Unimo
Unimo is a spatial intelligence platform that lets on-site construction teams model, monitor and report. Unimo brings a living 3D model, universal sensor and CCTV integration, and natural language reporting into a single platform that site teams can use with little to no training.
Most Innovative SME
Build Test Solutions Ltd
Build Test Solutions is an innovative UK SME transforming how building performance is measured and verified. Through its integrated technologies, including Heat3D, Pulse and SmartHTC, the company enables real-time, on-site performance testing that improves quality, reduces risk, supports sustainability and helps close the construction performance gap.
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd — 10 employees — has developed the UK’s first integrated biodiversity rainscreen cladding system, delivering certified habitat for birds, bats, and bees. BREEAM Excellent rated, BCT Roost Partner, live IoT-monitored at Trego Road. Proof that a 10-person SME can create a UK construction first.
EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy is an innovative UK renewable energy SME combining proprietary software development with pioneering engineering solutions. Through its Chronos asset management platform and landmark projects including Birmingham Airport and Aldi Bardon, the company is transforming how renewable energy assets are delivered, monitored, optimised, and maintained across the construction sector.
Origin7
Origin7 is a Northern Ireland-based digital construction consultancy proving that micro businesses can drive industry-wide transformation. Through pioneering OpenBIM, AI-enabled workflows, immersive technologies and digital construction leadership, Origin7 is delivering measurable project benefits, shaping industry standards, developing future talent and helping build a more sustainable, connected and digitally enabled construction
TALO
TALO’s mission-driven approach to innovation is transforming the delivery of ultra-low energy housing. Its proven offsite technology from Finland is uniquely combined with an engineered foundation system and whole-house energy strategy. This is delivering low-rise housing at cost parity, exceeding Passivhaus standards, halving build programmes and directly tackling fuel poverty.
XD House Limited
XD House: thirteen professionals, one global team under one roof, four proprietary tools; XDHouse.AI, XDH Cladding, XDH Landscape, XDH Fit-Out all in live deployment. Built from Kuwait T2, NEOM Trojena, and KSA giga-projects. First SME globally to achieve BSI Kitemark ISO 19650, proving enterprise standards belong to every firm.
Most Innovative Urban Regeneration Project
Bridgewater Road Bridge – Kilnbridge
Delivered for clients Ballymore and LLDC, The Bridgewater Road Bridge is a landmark infrastructure project enhancing connectivity across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Constructed using innovative marine construction and sustainable design, it unlocks new development, supports active travel and strengthens community links, demonstrating how engineering excellence drives inclusive, long-term urban regeneration.
Mayfield, Manchester City Centre – Landsec
The Mayfield development is redefining community-led, urban regeneration with nature front and centre of the creation of a new neighbourhood in the heart of the UK’s fastest-growing city. 2026 will see the opening of the pioneering Avenade Intelligent Garden at Mayfield, the latest exciting chapter in Mayfield’s regeneration story.
Marshall Walk, Inns Court, Bristol – ZED PODS Limited
Marshall Walk by ZED PODS transformed a stalled brownfield site in Bristol into 12 zero-operational-carbon affordable homes. Using innovative volumetric MMC, the project restored confidence in modular delivery, improved biodiversity, reduced running costs and created lasting social value for single-person households, including people moving on from homelessness.
Best Carbon Reduction Innovation or Practice
AG Paving + Building Products
AG’s Woodward Low Carbon Masonry Facing Brick reduces embodied carbon through the use of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag, a by-product of steel manufacturing. This lowers reliance on carbon-intensive cement while maintaining strength, durability and appearance, delivering up to 40% lower embodied carbon than standard clay facing brick.
Aireavu
Aireavu has pioneered Operational Carbon Intelligence for modular and relocatable buildings, combining remote monitoring, trustworthy AI and autonomous optimisation to continuously reduce emissions. Independently validated, the platform has demonstrated reductions in user-driven energy waste of up to 87%, redefining how operational carbon is managed after buildings are occupied.
Bellway
Latest findings from Bellway’s unique research with The University of Salford have demonstrated the optimum specification for air source heat pumps in well-insulated new homes, providing an essential road map for the wider housebuilding industry as it moves away from fossil fuels and prepares for Future Homes Standard Building Regulations.
HiboCare International Limited
HiboScreen tackles one of commercial buildings’ most overlooked carbon sources: HVAC coil fouling. In an ongoing 28-month monitored installation, a laboratory AHU fitted with a single 600 × 600 mm HiboScreen avoided approximately 5.8 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually, without offsets, equipment replacement or operational disruption.
HLW
Grant Thornton UK’s new London hub redefines sustainable workplace design through radical material reuse. Repurposing existing furniture, finishes, and architectural elements achieved a 79% embodied carbon reduction while creating a flexible, inclusive environment. The project sets a new benchmark for circular office fit-outs, combining measurable environmental impact with employee wellbeing.
Integrated Health Projects (IHP)
Setting a new benchmark for sustainable healthcare, the NHS Net Zero Building Standard (NZBS) redefines low-carbon design through rigorous whole-life targets. The Countess of Chester Women and Children’s Building, the first compliant facility in England, exemplifies this ambition – showcasing a pioneering, scalable model for delivering patient-focused, future-ready, net-zero healthcare infrastructure.
NZC Solutions
NZC Solutions has transformed carbon management within the UK Construction industry, end-to-end digital platform. Supporting over 100 projects, the innovation streamlines reporting, engages supply chains, improves compliance, and empowers organisations to make data-driven decisions that accelerate carbon reduction across the construction industry.
One Creative Environments Ltd
ONE’s Smart Assets provides a software-agnostic digital twin approach designed to optimise asset and estate performance. Driving many key benefits, including energy efficiency optimisation and carbon footprint tracking – crucial in the journey to Net Zero, it combines BIM, IoT sensing, live energy analytics and client-owned data environments providing real-time insight.
Vistry
Vistry’s VIC-E project demonstrates how standard timber frame homes can be deconstructed, assessed and redesigned for reuse, reducing carbon and waste while improving material traceability. The project provides practical evidence and scalable design principles to support circular, low-carbon housebuilding across the wider construction sector.
Best Energy Efficiency Innovation
Aireavu
Aireavu has transformed energy efficiency for modular and relocatable buildings through Continuous Energy Optimisation. Combining remote monitoring, trustworthy AI and autonomous control, the platform continuously reduces unnecessary energy consumption whilst maintaining occupant comfort, establishing a new benchmark for intelligent building performance.
Air Source Heat Pump Optimisation – Bellway
The latest phase of Bellway’s pioneering Future Home research project with The University of Salford has demonstrated the most energy-efficient use of air source heat pumps, providing unique, shareable and scalable results which can benefit the entire UK housebuilding industry as it moves towards the Future Homes Standard Building Regulations.
Solar PV Monitoring & Decarbonisation – Connexin
Connexin, Sewell Group and Hull City Council have created an energy efficiency innovation combining solar PV monitoring, sub-metering, import/export analysis and live dashboard intelligence. The platform turns estate energy data into operational insight, helping reduce avoidable grid consumption, protect solar investment and support smarter public sector energy management.
Rooftop Solar PV System – EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy delivered an 8.06MWp rooftop solar PV and bespoke control solution at Aldi Bardon, improving energy performance on a severely grid-constrained logistics facility. The innovation enables safe, large-scale on-site renewable generation, supports operational resilience and provides a replicable model for energy-efficient commercial buildings.
HiboScreen – HiboCare International Limited
HiboScreen is a plug-and-play retrofit screen for existing air handling units that prevents coil fouling before it starts. Validated through a 28-month monitored installation, it delivers 17% HVAC energy savings versus standard annual maintenance, eliminates chemical cleaning costs, and typically achieves payback in under 12 months.
IES Live – IES
IES Live is transforming building energy efficiency through physics-based performance models and live operational data. At United Wholesale Scotland’s Queenslie HQ, it identified more than £50,000 in annual savings opportunities, reduced gas consumption by 39% and electricity use by 9%, enabling continuous optimisation, verified performance improvement and long-term decarbonisation.
Most Innovative Build Process using MMC
JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
JT Lifestyle Homes has developed an integrated MMC build process combining robotics, digital design and sustainable masonry construction. Successfully delivered on a live housing development, the approach has improved productivity, build quality and environmental performance while providing a scalable model for the future of UK housebuilding.
TALO
TALO is transforming low-rise housing by using proven offsite technology developed in Finland, combined with a lightweight foundation system and integrated whole house energy strategy. These innovations deliver ultra-low energy homes at cost parity, exceeding Passivhaus standards, cutting build programmes by 50% and directly addressing fuel poverty across all tenures.
Zed Pods Limited
ZED PODS’ integrated volumetric MMC process combines digital design, factory manufacture and turnkey delivery to unlock constrained sites. Crofts House and Marshall Walk prove its ability to cut programme, carbon, waste and risk while delivering zero-operational-carbon affordable homes, social value and restored confidence in MMC.
Best Health & Safety Innovation
Boxcore
Boxcore is a rapidly growing construction safety and workforce management platform that combines AI, facial recognition and field-first design to deliver measurable results for contractors. Built around the realities of live construction sites, Boxcore helps companies reduce risk, cut administration, improve workforce visibility and achieve rapid adoption among frontline teams.
CMT Group
MAGGIE is an innovative magnetic rebar protection range supplied by CMT Group. Designed to improve on unreliable traditional mushroom caps, it snaps securely into place, reducing displacement risk, replacement costs and installation time. With high-visibility and reinforced options, MAGGIE helps sites maintain safer, more consistent protection around exposed rebar.
HammerTech
HammerTech is construction’s leading compliance, safety and operations platform. Trusted by 1,000+ customers across 50,000 projects, it connects every safety workflow in one system, reducing administration, improving compliance and delivering measurable outcomes, including 23% fewer injuries across participating contractors.
Harris Brick Safety Systems
Brick Bud is an award-winning, patented construction safety innovation transforming the way masonry is built. By reducing accidents, material waste, programme delays and carbon emissions, it delivers safer, more efficient construction while supporting compliance with industry legislation. Already adopted by leading contractors, educators and suppliers, it is setting new standards
Quin
Quin has created a connected safety ecosystem that transforms traditional PPE into intelligent safety equipment. By combining the Quin Pod, Quin Tag, and Quin Within App, the solution detects incidents, supports emergency response, and provides actionable safety data that helps improve outcomes across construction and industrial workplaces.
Safety Shield
Safety Shield Global’s S.T.R.E.A.M is a groundbreaking, real-time digital People Plant Interface (PPI) safety system developed for AmcoGiffen to transform operational safety. State-of-the-art AI technology analyses patterns, identifies trends, prompts intervention and shares learnings. S.T.R.E.A.M is a step change in PPI safety, enabling real-time interventions and delivery of behavioural change.
Best Approach to Company Culture & Wellbeing
4PS by Hilti
4PS by Hilti has embedded a people-first culture where wellbeing, development and inclusion drive business performance. Through continuous employee feedback, leadership-led initiatives such as 4PS Life, and strong alignment to Hilti values, the organisation has created a supportive, high-performing workplace, recognised through Great Place to Work accreditation and wellbeing awards.
Murphy
Murphy operates a culture of ‘One Murphy’ that focuses on the health and wellbeing of its workforce to create a great place to work where people feel secure and comfortable to be themselves. The success of this culture has helped protect its employees, grow its workforce and celebrate record results.
OryxAlign
OryxAlign delivers a values-led, people-centred culture built on Caring, Supporting, Striving, Trusting and Enjoying. Employees actively shape wellbeing through feedback and a volunteer Social & Wellbeing Team. Strong leadership, inclusive practices and development initiatives drive engagement, retention and performance, evidenced by high eNPS, 89.7% stability and consistent internal progression rates.
Telehouse Europe
Telehouse continues to champion a people-first culture through its“ Every Connection Matters” philosophy, embedding wellbeing, inclusion and collaboration throughout the organisation. Through strong leadership, employee-led initiatives and continuous improvement, it has enhanced engagement, satisfaction and retention. Mark Pestridge, Telehouse Managing Director states, “Our people are our greatest strength”
Best Asset Management Innovation
Auro
Auro Door, developed by Harmony Fire, is the world’s first fully integrated and certified IoT fire door, delivering continuous compliance monitoring, real-time insights and predictive maintenance. Transforming reactive inspections into intelligent assurance, it helps housing providers improve safety, strengthen compliance, reduce costs and protect residents every single day proactively together.
EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy’s Chronos platform is an in-house asset-management innovation that transforms how commercial renewable assets are monitored, analysed and maintained. Built around real O&M workflows, Chronos brings metering, weather modelling, performance data, field job information and client reporting into one platform, enabling faster diagnosis, clearer reporting and stronger lifecycle asset performance.
Fexillon
The Fexillon Platform and Twin give owner operators a single source of truth for their assets across the whole lifecycle, from design through handover into operation. Backed by 25 years’ expertise, Fexillon delivers the right information at the right time, driving better outcomes on the path to Net Zero.
Glider Technology
Glider Technology has created Asset Intelligence, a new discipline bridging information management and asset management. Applied with organisations including the Ministry of Defence, Deutsche Bank and Unite Students, it enables asset owners to find, trust and act on information, improving decisions and whole-life asset outcomes.
SmartViz Ltd
SmartViz is the People-Centred Building Intelligence platform helping shift the built environment from assumption-led to evidence-led decisions. By continuously measuring how people actually use buildings, it helps organisations optimise today’s buildings while creating the evidence needed to retrofit, invest in and design the better buildings of tomorrow.
TCW
TCW transforms fragmented compliance processes into a connected, automated and intelligent system, enabling housing providers to improve data accuracy, reduce manual effort, strengthen audit readiness and make faster, more informed decisions that enhance safety, efficiency and long-term asset management performance.
Zutec Inc. (UK) Ltd
Building AI introduces a secure intelligence layer that enables asset management teams to ask natural language questions and receive fully cited, contextual and accurate results from data already existing in Zutec’s Building Document Management solution. This removes the need for manual filtering and unlocks operational insights from static building information.
Best Retrofit Innovation or Project
Connected Home Solution – Aico
Aico, Yorkshire Housing, Broad Oak and resident Josh collaborated on a whole-home retrofit combining insulation, renewable energy technologies and Aico’s Connected Home Solution. The project reduced energy costs by up to 80%, improved EPC rating from E to B, enhanced indoor air quality, and demonstrated measurable retrofit performance.
76 Southbank – Eckersley O’Callaghan
76 Southbank showcases a pioneering circular retrofit, where 101 precast balustrades were carefully removed, refurbished and reinstated to transform a Grade II listed building into a modern, low carbon workplace. The project delivers major embodied carbon savings, enhanced daylighting and improved performance while preserving the building’s distinctive architectural character.
HiboScreen – HiboCare International Limited
Most commercial HVAC systems were built to move air, not manage it. Fine particles foul cooling coils and degrade performance over time. HiboScreen by HiboCare is a plug-and-play retrofit that prevents this at source, reducing HVAC energy consumption by 17% compared with standard annual maintenance while delivering clinical-grade indoor air
HMP Channings Wood – Kier Construction Limited
This submission showcases a digitally-led retrofit innovation delivered at HMP Channings Wood, where advanced laser scanning, Scan to BIM modelling and coordinated digital workflows were used to reduce risk, improve design certainty and support delivery within a live custodial environment. Working with Scantech Digital, the team developed accurate existing-conditions models
Bramley House – Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
The Bramley House retrofit is a resident led transformation of a 1930s social housing block in North Kensington. Combining deep energy efficiency upgrades with social innovation, the project improves comfort, safety, and wellbeing while demonstrating how co-designed retrofit can deliver dignified, climate ready, net zero homes at scale.
Great Yarmouth Learning Hub – The Place – Morgan Sindall
The Place showcases the transformative power of retrofit, converting Great Yarmouth’s historic Palmers department store into a sustainable education, library and community hub. Combining heritage conservation with modern performance, the project has extended the building’s life, created lasting social value and become a catalyst for town-centre regeneration.
Warwick District Council’s St Nicholas Leisure Centre – SIG Building SOLUTION
Warwick District Council secured Sport England funding to upgrade the roof at St Nicholas Leisure Centre, cutting energy bills by £14,000 annually. Delivered under budget with zero disruption, this two-week project uses an overclad roof solution to cut emissions, reduce operational costs, and establish a scalable blueprint for public-sector decarbonisation.
Claridge House – Studio PDP
Studio PDP’s Claridge House is a pioneering net zero carbon heritage retrofit for Grosvenor, transforming obsolete offices into eight high-performance homes. Combining adaptive reuse, fabric-first design and innovative low-carbon technologies, the project reduces operational carbon by 93% while providing a scalable blueprint for decarbonising historic buildings across London and beyond.
Most Sustainable Building Project
Tesco Low-Carbon Concept Store, Harrogate – B&K Hybrid Solutions
Tesco’s flagship low-carbon superstore in Harrogate is a 3,651sqm facility developed as a blueprint for the retailer’s future store strategy, striving to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. Incorporating a structural timber solution, designed to be replicated across the Tesco estate, the project features an exposed glulam frame delivered by BKHS.
Principality Stadium Solar PV Installation, Cardiff – EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy delivered the UK’s largest stadium solar PV installation at Principality Stadium for the Welsh Rugby Union. The 1.5 MWp system reduces grid reliance, saves around 257,115 kg of CO2 annually and demonstrates how complex landmark buildings can become active contributors to the energy transition.
M-Plaza Thalkirchen – M-Park Thalkirchen – FC REF VIII GmbH
M-Plaza Munich-Thalkirchen, the first phase of the M-Park redevelopment by FidCap Group, transforms a former industrial site into a benchmark for sustainable office development. Combining hybrid timber construction, renewable energy systems and intelligent building technologies, the project delivers a low-carbon, future-ready workplace while supporting long-term urban regeneration and environmental performance.
Countess of Chester Women & Children’s Hospital – Integrated Health Projects
The Women and Children’s Building has become the first hospital in the UK formally approved under the NHS Net Zero Carbon Building Standard. Through innovative design, low-carbon technologies and whole-life sustainability principles, it now sets a replicable benchmark for sustainable healthcare infrastructure.
One North Quay, Canary Wharf – Kilnbridge
One North Quay showcases how sustainability can be delivered at scale. Through low-carbon materials, circular construction and real-time carbon tracking, the project achieves measurable emissions reductions. Led by Canary Wharf Group, Kadans Science Partner and Kilnbridge, it sets a new benchmark for practical, data-driven net-zero construction in complex urban developments.
25 Trego Road, Hackney – KNT Development
25 Trego Road, London achieved BREEAM Excellent (73.9%) with the UK’s first live-monitored integrated biodiversity brick slip cladding – delivering certified habitat for birds, bats, and bees within the standard facade. Mandatory BNG compliance, A1 fire safety, and continuous IoT ecological monitoring. Developed by the KNT Group, supplied by Cladmate.
Frank Lee Centre Decarbonisation Scheme, Addenbrooke’s Hospital – R G Carter Cambridge Limted
The Frank Lee Decarbonisation Project at Addenbrooke’s Hospital demonstrates low carbon retrofit in a live healthcare environment. It replaced fossil fuel systems with a electric, heat pump led network, delivered without disruption, and will save over 20,000 tonnes of CO2 over 20 years, setting a replicable benchmark for sustainable infrastructure across the UK.
Claridge House – Studio PDP
Studio PDP’s Claridge House is an award-winning net-zero carbon heritage retrofit for Grosvenor that transforms obsolete offices into eight high-performance homes. Retaining the existing structure, the project achieves an 80% reduction in energy demand and 93% lower operational carbon, providing a replicable blueprint for sustainable heritage regeneration across the UK.
Gwel Basset, Redruth – Vistry
Gwel Basset is a zero carbon ready, mixed-tenure development in Redruth, delivered by Countryside Partnerships in partnership with Treveth Holdings LLP. The scheme demonstrates how sustainable housing can exceed regulatory standards through energy-efficient design, low-carbon technologies and inclusive community planning, supporting long-term environmental, social and economic value.
Most Innovative Affordable Housing Project
Dagenham Green – Peabody Housing
Dagenham Green is redefining what affordable housing can be. Delivered by Peabody and Hill, the 45-acre regeneration project will create 3,502 new homes, including 1,640 affordable homes, alongside extensive green space, community facilities and low-carbon infrastructure.
YorSpace at Lowfield Green – Resonance Ltd
YorSpace at Lowfield Green is York’s first community-led housing co-operative, delivering 14 permanently affordable, sustainable homes. A £2.5 million investment from Resonance Community Developers helped bring the scheme to life, enabling a pioneering model of low-carbon design, community ownership and long-term affordability.
Pearson Place, Trafford Waters – Rowlinson
Pearson Place at Trafford Waters demonstrates how to deliver affordable housing without compromising on quality. Providing 83 affordable apartments, the development combines market-sale standards of design, specification and energy efficiency with below-market rents, while creating an inclusive community at the heart of one of Greater Manchester’s most ambitious regeneration programmes.
Fortis House, Ashford – ZED PODS Limited
Fortis House by ZED PODS and Ashford Borough Council transforms a flood-prone brownfield car park into 23 zero-operational-carbon affordable homes. Using volumetric MMC, BIM and renewable technologies, the project delivers climate-resilient housing, lower running costs, strong social value and a replicable model for constrained public land.
Most Innovative Partnership
Bellway
The Future Homes Project @ Energy House 2.0 shows what’s possible when academia, industry, and policymakers work in partnership. Unique testing of two houses built by Bellway, Barratt Redrow and Saint-Gobain within The University of Salford’s pioneering climate chamber is providing a vital roadmap as the industry moves towards net-zero.
Safety Shield
Safety Shield Global’s S.T.R.E.A.M is a groundbreaking, real-time digital People Plant Interface (PPI) safety system developed for AmcoGiffen to transform operational safety. State-of-the-art AI technology analyses patterns, identifies trends, prompts intervention and shares learnings. S.T.R.E.A.M is a step change in PPI safety, enabling real-time interventions and delivery of behavioural change.
Taylor Wimpey plc
Taylor Wimpey, Smartroof and Ebac have partnered to deliver the UK’s first trial of an integrated smartPUC and Ebac in-roof heat pump solution. The innovative low-carbon system supports Future Homes Standard readiness, removes external plant, improves build efficiency, H&S and customer experience, providing a scalable model for sustainable volume housebuilding.
ZIGURAT Institute of Technology
ZIGURAT Institute of Technology connects technology partners, industry practitioners, corporate organisations and professional communities to accelerate digital adoption across the built environment. Through applied learning, corporate upskilling and international collaboration, ZIGURAT helps close digital skills gaps and translate innovation into real AECO practice.
Most Innovative Contech Startup
Boxcore
Boxcore is a fast growing Contech Startup that helps contractors simplify safety, workforce compliance and site access. By combining AI-powered automation, facial recognition and field-proven design, Boxcore helps contractors eliminate manual admin, maintain workforce compliance and gain real-time visibility with minimal effort for site teams to implement.
Buildscout
Buildscout is a UK construction lead generation platform that connects main contractors, specialists, and trades to the right projects at the right time using live planning data. Launched in 2024 and backed by Searchland, Buildscout has grown to 200+ customers in under 18 months, delivering a 200x ROI for users.
JT Lifestyle Homes
JT Lifestyle Homes has successfully moved construction robotics from proof of concept to live project delivery. Through the implementation of robotic wall-laying, the company has demonstrated measurable improvements in productivity, quality, safety and sustainability, establishing a scalable model for technology-enabled housebuilding and positioning itself for the next phase of growth.
Krane
Krane is transforming construction supply chain management through AI-powered workflow automation and procurement intelligence. The platform helps contractors identify risks earlier, automate manual coordination, and make better procurement decisions, supporting more than $17bn in active projects across healthcare, infrastructure, energy, and data centre construction.
ORNA Group
ORNA Group transforms discarded Christmas trees into high-performance, construction panels. By utilising patent-pending material science and non-toxic binders, the Southwark-based startup turns a seasonal waste liability into a domestic resource, helping reduce the UK’s timber import reliance and providing a local scalable solution for a circular economy.
Prolo
Prolo is a forward-thinking Contech scaleup transforming procurement for lean construction SMEs. Combining rapid AI market scanning with human logistical expertise, Prolo replaces manual sourcing with a frictionless one-stop platform. Secured by a £3.2m seed round, Prolo protects squeezed profit margins, optimises resource utilisation, and drives industry efficiency.
Unimo
Unimo is a spatial intelligence platform that lets on-site construction teams model, monitor and report on site. Unimo brings a living 3D model, universal sensor, CCTV integration and natural language reporting into a single platform that site teams can use with little to no training.
Vateris (formerly Concrete4Change)
Vateris is a climate-tech scaleup transforming captured CO2 into high-performance construction materials and sustainable fertilisers. Its patented technology permanently stores carbon while reducing cement demand, creating a commercially viable pathway to decarbonise construction. Backed by leading strategic investors, Vateris is progressing towards industrial-scale deployment.
XD House Limited
XD House is a Dubai-founded ConTech start-up that builds proprietary automation and AI tools from live delivery experience on the world’s most demanding projects. With an audited USD 5m-plus saving on Kuwait T2 and four tools in active client deployment, XD House makes enterprise-grade construction intelligence accessible at every scale.
Best Use of Remote Monitoring Technology
Aireavu
Aireavu has developed the Building Intelligence Platform for Modular and Relocatable Buildings, combining remote monitoring, trustworthy AI and autonomous optimisation to transform building performance. Independently validated, the platform has reduced user-driven energy waste by up to 87%, helping redefine how modular buildings are operated after deployment.
EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy’s Chronos platform transforms remote monitoring for commercial renewable assets. Built in-house, it consolidates metering, weather modelling, field job data and reporting into one system, giving EvoEnergy faster fault diagnosis, clearer performance insight and stronger lifecycle management across one of the UK’s largest commercial renewable portfolios.
MX Reality
mXreality’s mXlens platform transformed remote construction monitoring by combining continuous project visibility with commercial reporting, document management and project assurance. First deployed at the Maple Close development, it improved collaboration, strengthened governance and gave developers, consultants and funders greater confidence throughout project delivery.
Sky Revolutions Ltd
Sky Revolutions delivers remote monitoring for construction, demolition, renewables and asset maintenance using timelapse networks, mast systems up to 30m, drones, AI-assisted review and emerging drone-in-a-box technology. Its service helps clients monitor progress, improve safety, evidence milestones and make faster decisions using reliable visual data.
Vericon Systems
Vericon BCM is a remote monitoring platform helping social landlords move from reactive repairs to proactive, evidence-led management. By combining live heating, pressure, temperature, humidity and usage data, it enables earlier fault detection, smarter maintenance, improved resident safety, reduced unnecessary call-outs and better-informed decisions across occupied homes and housing portfolios.
VIS Systems
VIS Systems extended its award-winning workforce platform with VISion AI, the construction industry’s first fully automated AI PPE detection system. Live with contractors including Bowmer & Kirkland, Morgan Sindall, Kier and SISK, it delivers 95%+ accuracy, an 80%+ drop in violations, behavioural change and lower insurance premiums.
Best Use of Data on a Construction Project
Buildscout
A specialist high-end contractor used Buildscout to replace guesswork with live planning data, building a £4m pipeline of right-fit projects. With precise targeting, professionally designed direct mail, and a dedicated account manager, they won six projects, turned away 10, and took full control of their pipeline for the first time.
Collen – Berserk
Collen is tackling one of construction’s oldest problems: information that arrives too late to act on. Using Microsoft Fabric, the contractor built automated Power BI dashboards, refreshed hourly in Microsoft Teams, giving 32 companies one live view of delivery across seven datacentre projects. Manual reporting fell 82%.
Collen – Microsoft Fabric
Collen is reshaping how the industry proves handover readiness. Its in-house tool, LOI Snapshot, turns federated Navisworks models into a live data check, reported through Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. It checks around 800,000 elements per project in minutes, catching missing handover data months early across seven datacentre projects.
Sir Robert McAlpine
2 Finsbury Avenue demonstrates exemplar use of integrated information hubs that connect design, construction, logistics, quality, commissioning and asset data. This best practice has enabled reductions in manual reporting, improved visibility, faster decision making and validation of handover information, creating a scalable model for data-led construction and future asset performance.
XD House
XD House built its data capabilities on Kuwait T2 and KSA giga-projects, delivering an audited USD 5m-plus material saving and intercepting 4,500 metadata non-conformities, then embedded that expertise into XDHouse.AI, XDH Cladding, and XDH Landscape, all in simultaneous live client deployment.
Best Use of Automation or AI
Aireavu
Aireavu has pioneered trustworthy AI for modular and relocatable buildings, combining trustworthy AI, automation and continuous optimisation to transform building performance. Independently validated, the platform reduces energy waste, lowers carbon emissions and demonstrates how transparent AI can enable confident adoption of autonomous building operation.
Collen – Berserk
Collen has built Berserk in house, an Autodesk Navisworks plugin that automates issue logging in coordination and as-built reviews. Reviewers drop viewpoints; Berserk raises every ACC issue automatically with location, company and model detected, cutting area reviews from days to hours and offering a scalable model for construction coordination.
Exactly Tech
SmartFix is transforming the way Muir delivers repairs by connecting people, processes and technology into one intelligent service platform. Through dynamic scheduling, real-time visibility, mobile working and enhanced customer engagement, SmartFix empowers Muir to deliver faster repairs, better outcomes and a modern digital experience for customers and colleagues alike.
Giatec
Roxi™ is Giatec’s AI engine for concrete, trained on over 100 million cubic yards of data. Delivered through SmartMix™, Roxi drives cost savings, cuts cement use, and reduces CO2 for ready-mix producers.
JT Lifestyle Homes
JT Lifestyle Homes has deployed WLTR (Wall Laying Terra-Based Robot) on live residential projects, cutting build times by 66% while elevating quality, safety, and consistency. This deployment demonstrates the real world capability of robotic masonry and establishes a scalable, repeatable model that can be adopted widely across the housebuilding sector.
Prolo
Prolo is an AI-powered expert procurement team transforming how lean construction SMEs operate. By automating market scanning, the technology instantly secures the best prices for materials and equipment. Backed by human support managing logistics, this innovation drastically reduces costs and shapes the future of construction.
Safety Shield Global
Safety Shield Global’s S.T.R.E.A.M is a groundbreaking, real-time digital People Plant Interface (PPI) safety system developed for AmcoGiffen to transform operational safety. State-of-the-art AI technology analyses patterns, identifies trends, prompts intervention and shares learnings. S.T.R.E.A.M is a step change in PPI safety, enabling real-time interventions and delivery of behavioural change.
Trackunit
Trackunit IrisX is Trackunit’s Construction Operating Data Platform for off-highway construction fleets. It powers telematics and fleet management by turning fragmented machine and business data into structured, AI-ready intelligence. Through the IrisX AI Assistant and IrisX MCP, teams query their fleets in plain language and bring that intelligence into everyday
VIS Systems
VISion AI is the construction industry’s first fully automated AI PPE detection and intelligent CCTV platform. Built for live site environments, it delivers real-time alerts, automated compliance reporting and integrated workforce monitoring, and is now deployed across major UK projects with tier-one contractors including Bowmer & Kirkland and Morgan Sindall.
XD House Limited
XD House proved its automation and AI on Kuwait T2, NEOM Trojena, and Massport Boston Logan, delivering an audited USD 5m-plus material saving and coordinating 1,620 federated models. That expertise is now XDHouse.AI, live on the Irish Rollforming Technical Playbook, and three proprietary plugins in simultaneous client deployment.
Best Technology Partner
Access UK Ltd
Access Construction is the construction specialist within The Access Group, running finance, estimating and field operations across the UK, US and Australia. Customers report 90% admin reduction, errors cut to 0.5% and 16% turnover growth, in a partnership now leading construction’s shift to AI that acts.
ALICE Technologies
ALICE Technologies is the world’s first AI-powered construction simulation platform. ALICE Schedule Insights Agent enables teams to talk to their construction project schedule, asking questions in plain language and receiving context-rich answers in seconds. It makes schedule intelligence faster, clearer and more accessible across projects.
BIMcollab
BIMcollab helps construction teams turn fragmented BIM data into trusted decisions. By connecting context, controlling coordination processes, and delivering reliable information across every BIM phase, BIMcollab supports clearer collaboration, better model quality, and more confident digital delivery across the built environment.
innDex limited
innDex is a construction management platform built by Civil Engineers, for construction professionals. Trusted by over 200 contractors across 23 countries, innDex digitises site operations across workforce management, safety and compliance. Known for its hands-on partnership model, innDex does not just provide technology. It embeds itself in its client’s operations.
Open ECX
Open ECX is a transaction automation specialist serving over 15,000 businesses across construction, distribution, manufacturing and retail, processing millions of transactions annually. A certified Peppol Access Point, the company is already operating to the standards required by the UK’s mandatory e-invoicing legislation confirmed for April 2029.
PlaceChangers
PlaceChangers is the digital planning technology partner helping built environment teams replace static consultation with interactive maps, 3D visualisation, AI-assisted analysis and evidence-led reporting, improving understanding, feedback quality and decision confidence across planning, regeneration, housing projects.
SDS Infrastructure
SDS delivers intelligent water management solutions that combine smart rainwater reuse, flood resilience and real-time monitoring to help organisations across the public and private sectors improve sustainability, reduce potable water demand and strengthen climate resilience through innovative, data-driven infrastructure
SustainIQ
SustainIQ is the complete ESG data reporting platform that helps organisations measure, monitor, and report on environmental, social and economic performance in real-time. Launched in 2018, the platform has been now used on over 7,000 sites and projects, in more than 30 countries around the world.
Symetri Limited
Symetri is a consultancy-led technology partner helping organisations across the built environment overcome some of their most pressing challenges, including improving productivity, managing data, increasing delivery capacity, reducing risk, achieving sustainability goals and navigating regulatory compliance.
Xperience Group
Xperience is a specialist digital transformation partner helping construction businesses modernise through Microsoft technology and tools. Combining deep industry expertise with collaborative delivery, Xperience provides tailored solutions that improve efficiency, drive adoption and create lasting business value, making it a trusted technology partner to the construction sector.
Most Innovative Supplier
ACS Stainless Steel Fixings
ACS is a façade solutions partner working across the entire industry supply chain. Certus™ was developed in response to increasing demands for safety, speed and sustainability. A fully mechanically fixed brick-slip system, Certus™ removes reliance on traditional adhesives and resins, replacing with a robust stainless-steel carrier and patented interlocking technology.
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd is the UK’s only supplier of integrated biodiversity products for rainscreen cladding – delivering certified habitat for birds, bats, and solitary bees within standard building envelopes. A1 fire-rated, BBA-certified, structurally verified, and live-monitored at Trego Road. Biodiversity Net Gain compliance built directly into the building facade.
Keylite Roof Windows
Keylite Roof Windows, part of the Keystone Group, developed ModuLite, an innovative, factory-engineered, fabric-first alternative to the GRP dormer. Chosen by housebuilders across the UK & Ireland, ModuLite delivers cost savings, safer installation, faster build programmes and Future Homes Standard performance for housebuilders.
SustainIQ
SustainIQ is the complete ESG data reporting platform that helps organisations measure, monitor, and report on environmental, social and economic performance in real-time. Launched in 2018, the platform has been now used on over 7,000 sites and projects, in more than 30 countries around the world.
Thermolysis Co., Ltd.
Thermolysis Co., Ltd. is redefining construction materials through engineered carbon fibre reinforced cement and concrete technologies. By overcoming fibre dispersion challenges and enabling practical implementation, the company delivers stronger, more durable, and climate-resilient infrastructure while advancing long-term sustainability through extended service life.
Whitecroft Lighting Limited
Whitecroft Lighting’s submission highlights how close collaboration with BAM Construction enabled the delivery of an innovative smart lighting solution for Brent Cross Town Plot 1, providing the client with smoother delivery, reduced operational burden, and a future ready system that enhances efficiency and supports long term sustainability goals.
Most Innovative Contractor
CMT Design and Construction Ltd
CMT Design and Construction Ltd delivered the UK’s first monitored integrated biodiversity brick slip cladding installation at 25 Trego Road, London – integrating NestClad bird, bat, and bee habitat within the standard facade program. BREEAM Excellent 73.9%. Live SwitchBot IoT monitoring commissioned on completion. BNG compliance at zero program cost.
Collen
Collen is an eighth-generation main contractor delivering some of Europe’s largest hyperscale datacentres, power plants and commercial developments across Sweden, the UK and Ireland. By designing, building and owning its own software, Collen coordinates over 40 supply chain partners through in-house tools built for the realities of live delivery.
Kier Construction Limited
Your Insights, crystallises outcomes autonomously. Critically, this is supported by people-focused training, digital capability development, ensuring teams can adopt new ways of working with confidence. Kier’s strength is turning innovation into repeatable business value, not technology for its own sake.
Lovell Renew (part of Lovell Partnerships Limited)
Lovell have demonstrated genuine, measurable innovation in social housing, improving people lives by making their homes better, safer, warmer, and healthier. They have combined TPAS Best Practice with AIM digital innovation to deliver a customer focussed approach to deliver an excellent customer experience in long-term partnership at scale and pace.
Ventro Group
Ventro Group is transforming building safety through risk-led delivery, smart technology and data-driven decision making. By combining RiskBase compliance management, Uptick scheduling technology and innovative remediation strategies, Ventro helps clients improve safety, accelerate delivery and reduce costs while setting new standards for specialist contracting.
Most Innovative New Product (Hardware)
Heat3D – Build Test Solutions
Heat3D is an innovative construction technology that enables real-time thermal performance verification directly on-site. By identifying insulation defects, thermal bridging and heat-loss pathways during construction, it helps contractors improve quality, reduce rework, support compliance and deliver more energy-efficient buildings through data-driven performance assurance and verification.
NestClad – Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd
NestClad by Cladmate Facade Systems Ltd is the UK’s first integrated biodiversity rainscreen cladding system – delivering certified habitat for birds, bats, and bees within standard brick slip and rainscreen cladding. A1 fire-rated, BBA-certified, structurally verified, and live-monitored at Trego Road. BNG compliance built into the building envelope.
Composite Twin Track Cantilever – Composite Braiding Ltd
Composite Braiding Ltd’s Composite Twin Track Cantilever is a lightweight, recyclable thermoplastic composite alternative to steel railway overhead line structures. Delivering an 83% weight reduction and up to 90% lower embodied carbon, it enables faster, safer installation while transforming infrastructure productivity and sustainability.
H1Z2Z2-K Multicore Braided Cable – EvoEnergy
EvoEnergy’s H1Z2Z2-K Multicore Braided Cable is a new hardware solution for commercial solar PV construction. Developed with Eland Cables, it improves DC cabling compliance, durability and installation efficiency. Already deployed across Cranswick PLC sites, it reduces installation time by up to 30% and supports safer project delivery.
WLTR — Wall Laying Terra-Based Robot – JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
WLTR (Wall Laying Terra-Based Robot) and JT Lifestyle Homes have successfully moved robotic masonry construction from demonstration to live project delivery. The system has improved build quality, programme certainty and resource efficiency while integrating with conventional construction methods, providing a scalable solution for modern housebuilding and the challenges it faces.
MevoXL – Material Evolution
MevoXL is a concrete admixture that dramatically increases SCM replacement of cement, cutting embodied carbon without compromising strength, cost or turnaround. In an Environment Agency and RPC Contracts trial, MevoXL raised PFA content from 14% to 30%, cutting carbon by 20% and boosting strength by 56%, at unchanged cost.
Sealshield – Premier Sealant Systems (Sealprem)
SEALSHIELD™ is a preservation-led surface technology that helps extend the life of concrete, stone and masonry assets. By enabling buildings and infrastructure to be preserved rather than replaced, it reduces waste, lowers costs, shortens project timelines and supports a more sustainable approach to managing the built environment.
SDS Intellistorm® Smart Rainwater Management System with SDS SYMBiotIC™ – SDS Infrastructure
SDS Intellistorm® and SDS SYMBiotIC™ combine intelligent rainwater reuse, flood resilience and real-time monitoring within a single smart infrastructure solution, helping developments reduce potable water demand, lower carbon impact and transform conventional attenuation systems into active sustainability assets across commercial, public and residential sectors.
Most Innovative New Product (Digital)
Access Evo – Access UK Ltd
Access Evo is agentic AI built into Access Coins – software that acts, not waits. Supplier compliance, contract close-out and procurement exceptions are managed by agents built from real customer intelligence across four markets, launching across the UK, US and Australia in 2026.
Aireavu
Aireavu has developed the Building Intelligence Platform for Modular and Relocatable Buildings, a purpose-built digital product combining remote monitoring, trustworthy AI and autonomous optimisation. Independently validated through live deployments, it is redefining how modular buildings are operated, delivering significant reductions in energy waste, carbon emissions and operating costs.
ALICE Schedule Insights Agent – Alice Technologies
ALICE Technologies is the world’s first AI-powered construction simulation platform. ALICE Schedule Insights Agent enables teams to talk to their construction project schedule, asking questions in plain language and receiving context-rich answers in seconds. It makes schedule intelligence faster, clearer and more accessible across projects.
Carbon Sherpa Toolkit – Carbon Sherpa Limited
Carbon Sherpa is the only digital platform built specifically around PAS 2080 and whole life carbon management, providing a unified, standards aligned system for the buildings industry. It replaces fragmented spreadsheets with structured workflows, realtime calculations, and transparent governance making low carbon delivery scalable, consistent, and embedded across every stage.
Digital Building Logbook – GS1UK
EcoWise & GS1 UK, in collaboration with GS1 Ireland, developed the Digital Building Logbook, connecting construction products and assets to trusted lifecycle information through GS1 identifiers and Digital Link. The scalable solution supports the Golden Thread, efficient compliance and handover, interoperable data exchange, and circular construction across the built environment.
3D U-Value Calculator – Knauf Insulation
Knauf Insulation’s 3D U-value Calculator has put powerful thermal modelling capability in the hands of construction professionals. By generating instant, accurate calculations for rainscreen façades, it is transforming the design process; making it faster and more precise. Helping specifiers create the more energy efficient buildings the nation urgently needs.
TrainMe – Laing O’Rourke
The TrainMe system has improved every aspect of training and compliance at Laing O’Rourke. By automating aspects of training requests including the push of training results and certificates to correct systems, it means that we can be sure that we are compliant with the various building sector regulations.
People Centred Building Intelligence – SmartViz Ltd
SmartViz is the People-Centred Building Intelligence platform helping shift the built environment from assumption-led to evidence-led decisions. By continuously measuring how people actually use buildings, it helps organisations optimise today’s buildings while creating the evidence needed to retrofit, invest in and design the better buildings of tomorrow.
XDHouse.AI – XD House Limited
XDHouse.AI is rewriting how construction projects are built, managed, and handed over. Born from audited results on the world’s most complex giga-projects, it replaces fragmented tools with a single AI-native platform, eliminating rework, automating compliance, and turning information chaos into a competitive advantage. Construction intelligence, finally productised.
Professional Services Partner of the Year
Buro Happold
Buro Happold is redefining digital infrastructure advisory through an integrated methodology that combines engineering, placemaking and strategic infrastructure planning. By coordinating infrastructure systems rather than individual assets, the team is helping clients unlock greater economic, environmental and societal value from digital infrastructure investment.
NZC Solutions
NZC Solutions is transforming professional carbon management by combining expert advice with an innovative digital platform. Supporting over 100 projects, the business streamlines reporting, improves collaboration, strengthens compliance and empowers construction teams to make informed decisions that accelerate the transition to a lower-carbon built environment.
Origin7 Ltd
Origin7 are a micro SME digital construction consultancy transforming project and asset delivery. Through innovative information management and digital transformation services, the company has delivered measurable client benefits, including cost savings, programme efficiencies and reduced project risk, while actively shaping industry best practice, education, diversity initiatives and talent development.
OryxAlign
OryxAlign Professional Services delivered a complex network lifecycle replacement programme for a large UK commercial property owner, replacing and installing 220 devices across 18 live estate sites. Through strong governance, stakeholder coordination and out-of-hours delivery, the team improved infrastructure resilience while minimising disruption to building operations and trading.
Symetri Limited
Symetri is a consultancy-led technology partner helping built environment organisations improve project delivery, information management and asset performance. Through BIM advisory, digital transformation and asset management expertise, we deliver measurable efficiency gains, award-winning client outcomes and industry leadership, shaping best practice through collaboration, innovation and thought leadership.
Watson Farley & Williams
Watson Farley & Williams advised ZHA on negotiating three major Lithuanian infrastructure contracts, including Rail Baltica, overcoming procurement and regulatory challenges. Through innovative legal project management, AI-enabled tools and collaborative stakeholder engagement, the firm improved efficiency, reduced duplication and secured commercially favourable outcomes across nationally significant transport projects.
ZIGURAT Institute of Technology
ZIGURAT Corporate Services helps AECO companies and institutions build digital capability through tailor-made training, expert faculty, technology partnerships, Alumni talent services and international knowledge-sharing. Its professional services model connects education, technology and industry practice to support BIM, AI, GIS, digital twins and sustainable transformation.
Smart Building Project of the Year
Aireavu & Portakabin Smart Building Project – Aireavu
The Aireavu & Portakabin Smart Building Project is a world first: demonstrating how AI-driven Building Intelligence can transform modular and relocatable buildings into intelligent, self-optimising assets. Independently validated through live occupied deployments, the project has established a scalable model for smarter, healthier and lower-carbon buildings in this sector and beyond.
mXlens – Smarter Project Assurance at Maple Close – MX Reality (Nominated by JTLH)
Maple Close became the first live deployment of mXreality’s mXlens platform, demonstrating how integrated project assurance, remote monitoring and commercial reporting can improve collaboration, strengthen governance and give developers, consultants and funding partners greater confidence throughout construction.
One Broadgate – Sir Robert McAlpine
One Broadgate is an outstanding example of a future-ready designed and delivered smart building that positively enhances performance, sustainability and occupant experience. Integrating BIM, operational technology and an Independent Data Layer, it delivers trusted data, operational efficiency, scalability and a repeatable model for intelligent buildings and future Digital Twin adoption.
Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year
Solar PV Monitoring and Decarbonisation Project – Connexin
Connexin, Sewell Group and Hull City Council have delivered a scalable digital infrastructure project that combines solar PV monitoring, sub-metering, LoRaWAN connectivity and live dashboard intelligence. The project gives public estate teams real-time energy insight, helping reduce grid reliance, protect solar investment and support smarter, data-led decarbonisation.
Dublin Campus Microgrid – Pure Data Centres Group
Developed by AVK and Pure Data Centres Group, the Dublin Campus Microgrid is Europe’s first large-scale, off-grid data centre microgrid. Combining resilient on-site power with operational gas decarbonisation following Europe’s first large-scale, cross-border biomethane procurement, it establishes a scalable blueprint for delivering sustainable AI infrastructure in power-constrained markets.
RSPAWIR Intelligent Water Management Project – SDS Infrastructure
SDS Infrastructure’s RSPAWIR Intelligent Water Management Project combines IoT connectivity, predictive analytics and cloud-based monitoring to transform traditional drainage into intelligent digital infrastructure. The project delivers over five million litres of annual rainwater reuse while improving flood resilience, operational efficiency and long-term sustainability across agricultural and industrial environments.
West Data Centre Cooling Upgrade Project – Telehouse Europe
The Telehouse West Cooling Upgrade Project transformed a legacy data centre into a highly efficient, scalable and sustainable digital infrastructure asset. Delivering over 2.5 million kWh in energy savings, major PUE improvements and enhanced resilience, it demonstrates how innovative retrofit engineering can drive measurable environmental and business value.
Digital Construction Team of the Year
Collen
Collen’s Digital Construction team delivers hyperscale datacentres across Sweden, the UK and Ireland. The team builds its own tools, live Power BI dashboards on Microsoft Fabric and the “Berserk” Navisworks plugin, giving one trusted view. Manual reporting fell 82% and area reviews from days to hours.
Origin7
Origin7’s Digital Construction Team is proving that a small, specialist team can deliver transformational impact at scale. Through BIM, digital twins, immersive visualisation and data-driven workflows, the team has reduced rework, accelerated approvals, improved project outcomes and shaped industry best practice while developing the next generation of digital construction talent.
RLB Digital
RLB Digital is setting a new standard for information-led delivery. Through industry leadership, innovative digital solutions and close client collaboration, the team delivers measurable improvements in cost, efficiency and data quality, helping clients move from fragmented systems to confident, better-informed decisions.
Sir Robert McAlpine
SRM Digital Construction is redefining project delivery through connected data, automation and industry-leading information management. By creating scalable digital ecosystems across major projects, SRM is improving productivity, assurance and decision-making, while delivering measurable savings, stronger compliance and a repeatable model for predictable, high-performing construction outcomes.
Symetri Limited
Symetri is a consultancy-led technology partner helping organisations across the built environment overcome some of their most pressing challenges, including improving productivity, managing data, increasing delivery capacity, reducing risk, achieving sustainability goals and navigating regulatory compliance.
Innovator of the Year 2026
Anas Ayoub – XD House Limited
Anas Ayub, B.Arch, MSc BIM, LEED AP, Operam ISO 19650 Practitioner, is the founder and CEO of XD House. He built four proprietary ConTech tools from live giga-project delivery, achieving an audited USD 5m-plus material saving and the world’s first ISO 19650 BSI Kitemark for an SME.
Jan Telensky – JT Lifestyle Homes Ltd
Dr Telensky is a visionary whose work in construction robotics, affordable housing and skills development is reshaping the industry. Through robotics, virtual reality, large scale apprenticeships and Rent to Buy, he has increased housing productivity, tackled skills shortages, expanded home ownership and advanced socially responsible construction across the UK.
Jason Whittall – One Creative Environments Ltd
Jason Whittall, managing director (digital) at ONE, transformed how buildings are coordinated, managed and decarbonised through pioneering digital twin, smart asset and BIM innovations. Creator of “The Web of Sane”, regular university guest lecturer, and multi-award winner, Whittall delivers nationally recognised, award-winning solutions across education, housing and commercial estates.
René Morkos – Alice Technologies
When René Morkos founded ALICE Technologies, he set out to optimise construction worldwide. His latest innovation, Schedule Insights Agent, enables teams to talk to their construction project schedule, ask questions in plain language and receive context-rich answers in seconds, making schedule intelligence faster, clearer and more accessible.
Scott Pilgrim – RLB Digital
Scott Pilgrim, software development consultant and strategic innovation lead at RLB Digital, is reshaping how the construction industry thinks about digital. By shifting the focus from systems to decision-making, his work is improving trust in information and laying the foundations for estate-wide intelligence through a new model known as Neutrino.
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