RLB Digital wins Information Management Best Practice at the Digital Construction Awards
19 March 2026
United Utilities Enterprise and IAND win Digital Collaboration of the Year at the Digital Construction Awards
19 March 2026
United Utilities Enterprise and IAND won Digital Collaboration of the Year, sponsored by Bluebeam, at the Digital Construction Awards 2026 last night (18 March).
The Digital Collaboration of the Year category was extremely popular, attracting many excellent entries. The combination of United Utilities Enterprise (UUE) and IAND emerged victorious from a nine-strong shortlist.
What the judges said
“A truly excellent effort demonstrating a replicable model for accelerated mobilisation, compliance, and engagement.”
UUE is delivering the £3bn segment of United Utilities’ £13.7bn AMP 8 programme in the north-west of England. To manage the project’s scale, UUE brought together eight delivery partners and more than 300 suppliers into a single digital ecosystem powered by the IAND platform.
Before that, each delivery partner operated its own procurement and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, resulting in fragmented supplier data, duplicated onboarding processes and limited visibility of capacity, risk and spend across the alliance. The lack of a common source of truth hindered coordinated decision-making, increased administrative effort and slowed the mobilisation of suppliers, especially SMEs, in the region.
UUE selected IAND as its digital partner and co‑created a configurable web app that supports the full supplier‑relationship‑management lifecycle. Key actions included:
Other finalists
- AtkinsRéalis/Buckinghamshire Council/Balfour Beatty Living Places | Buckinghamshire Highways Alliance Master Programme
- Canary Wharf Group/Kadans/Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates/Revizto/Buro Happold/Ramboll | One North Quay
- Digital Realty/RLB Digital | CDE Solution for EMEA Projects
- Glider Technology/MoJ/Kier/Future Decisions | HMP Millsike: a data-driven digital twin for next-generation prison management
- iDEA/King’s College London | Vantage for King’s College London
- Majenta Solutions/George Leslie | From objection to acceptance: harnessing the power of 4D and digital collaboration
- Morgan Sindall Construction/Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Gamma AR | Improving collaboration and engagement using AR
- Persimmon Homes/Construction Skills Certification Scheme | Competent workforce = safer sites
- integrating data connectors to pull supplier information from each partner’s ERP and applying de‑duplication tools to create a single supplier record;
- automating the onboarding workflow – from registration through insurance verification and ESG data capture – so that registration now takes minutes rather than days;
- deploying modular procurement, performance feedback and compliance modules that can be activated in line with programme stages; and
- providing a shared dashboard where all eight partners can view supplier approval status, spend, risk scores and performance metrics in real-time.
The platform was launched in January 2025. Within four weeks, the supply chain was onboarded, and within 30 days, more than 300 suppliers were added. Thanks to the IAND platform, 90% of onboarding and compliance tasks are now automated, saving a three-person team roughly 90 days of effort in the first six months.
Additionally, duplicated documentation has been eliminated, and real-time visibility of spend and supplier performance has enabled proactive risk management and aligned decision-making across all partners.
The Digital Construction Awards are organised by Digital Construction Week, the Chartered Institute of Building, DC+ and Construction Management. Read about the rest of the winners.
To find out more about the awards and enquire about sponsorship or entering next year’s event, visit digitalconstructionawards.co.uk.
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