The winners of New Civil Engineer and Construction News’ 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 categories from a shortlist of 143 entries, ranging from disruptive startups to established tier one firms.
They were assessed by a panel of 84 expert judges representing a variety of roles and responsibilities within the construction and engineering industries.
“Picking winners from a diverse and compelling shortlist is never easy, and this year certainly put our judges through their paces,” said Construction News deputy editor Ben Vogel, who co-hosted the ceremony with his counterpart at New Civil Engineer, Belinda Smart.
“This year’s crop of winners showed how technology is now utterly central to our sector,” Vogel said.
“From smarter data capture, management and utilisation to advanced digital platforms, enhanced connectivity and automation, the work done by this year’s winners was hugely impressive.”
Tier one contractors Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O’Rourke 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.
Multiple winners at this year’s 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.
Feraru Dynamics picked up the Best Use of Technology: Health, Safety & Wellbeing and Product Innovation of the Year trophies.
Ultrabeam also did the double, winning the Innovation Accelerator and Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection for Asset Management awards.
The winners are below, but you can find the full list of nominees and the judges’ commentary on the TechFest website.
Full list of award winners:
Projects
Best Use of Technology: Artificial Intelligence – BuildPrompt, AI to automate digital handover
Best Use of Technology: Carbon Reduction in Design – Mott MacDonald, Moata Carbon Portal: scaling decarbonisation across the grid
Best Use of Technology: Carbon Reduction in Construction and Management – Cardiff Metropolitan University, Halve the Half: The sector-wide opportunity for cost and carbon reduction
Best Use of Technology: Design Efficiency – M Group, MWorks
Best Use of Technology: Digital Engineering – Arup, data-driven approach to inflow and infiltration in Gloucester
Best Use of Technology: Health, Safety & Wellbeing – Feraru Dynamics, HAV-Sentry for hand-arm vibration prevention
Best Use of Technology: Site Productivity – Laing O’Rourke, ConQuik concrete management
Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection for Asset Management – Ultrabeam, 3D drone underwater inspections
Best Use of Technology: Smart Data Collection in Construction – Development Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR, automating digital handover
Best use of Technology: Digital Construction – Staticus, facade management platform
Digital Construction Project of the Year – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1 Broadgate
Digital Transport Project of the Year – East Coast Digital Programme, Tornado: the world’s first operational steam locomotive to be fitted with ETCS technology
Organisations
Technology Supplier of the Year – Method Grid
Innovation Accelerator – Ultrabeam
Product Innovation of the Year – Feraru Dynamics, HAV-Sentry
Digital Contractor of the Year – Mott MacDonald Bentley
Software Innovation of the Year – Preoptima, PACER platform
Digital Consultant of the Year – Mott MacDonald
Individuals
Digital Rising Star – Aman Khandelwal, Tetra Tech
Tech and Digital Team of the Year – WSP
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