Emine Rachel Taylor-Unlu named Digital Rising Star at the Digital Construction Awards

Emine has successfully led the planning and execution of a critical Business Collaborator server migration for BBV on the HS2 Area North contract – a highly complex task involving the transfer of 10 million uploads across nine delivery teams, impacting 300 organisations and 10,000 users. Her work has set new benchmarks for efficiency and digital excellence in one of the UK’s most complex infrastructure projects.

Meticulous coordination with stakeholders and experts ensured a seamless transition with minimal downtime. This led to considerable time savings, greater efficiency, better document management and improved collaboration across teams. It also safeguarded business continuity and strengthened trust in digital systems.

Identifying inefficiencies in spreadsheet workflows, Emine spearheaded the implementation of Endev-o, a web-based CDE for client deliverables. Over the course of 18 months, she led concept design and configuration, user acceptance testing and the communication and implementation strategy for 300-plus suppliers and 620 mixed-task teams, managing 200,000-plus deliverables.

The transformation eliminated manual processes, reduced errors and improved transparency. This innovation saved multiple days per deliverable cycle, delivered cleaner data and set new standards. Via agile working, the implementation timeline was shortened by six weeks.

Emine has been instrumental in delivering three consecutive years of successful upgrades to the Esri suite of products, including Esri Enterprise, Azure Postgres database and FME. These upgrades supported 1,800 monthly enterprise users performing business-critical tasks such as utility spatial analysis and database management. By navigating these changes, she ensured minimal disruption to essential workflows, improved system performance and reliability, and increased stakeholder confidence in enterprise systems.