2023 Judges

CEO, The Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA)

Jackie Maginnis

CEO of the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA)

Jackie is CEO of the Modular & Portable Building Association (MPBA) – a great ambassador for MMC with 35 years experience in the volumetric/modular industry.

Prior to her role with MPBA she worked for a manufacturing and hire company.

With her passion for the industry sector and the help of the committees from within the member companies, part of her role is to promote the features and benefits of the use of offsite volumetric buildings.

Director, Digital Services Lead, Turner & Townsend

George Mokhtar

Director, Digital Services Lead at Turner & Townsend

George Mokhtar is the Strategic Director of Digital Advisory at Turner & Townsend, specialising in major programmes with expertise ranging from asset lifecycle information management and BIM analytics to strategic digital transformation and project delivery. George currently oversees advanced digital project delivery in property, natural resources and infrastructure sectors globally.

CEO,
Stacx International

Sam Stacey

CEO, Stacx International

Sam Stacey is a construction industry leader and writer on construction innovation. He has a unique perspective and a deep heritage in the built environment, having served on various boards, including the BRE, Construction Innovation Hub and Active Building Centre, and advised UK government and leading construction companies. He combines technical know-how with degrees from some of the world’s leading universities: in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, Engineering from Imperial College, London and an MBA from Henley Business School. From 2018 to 2022 Sam was Challenge Director for Transforming Construction at UKRI, and is now CEO of Stacx International.

Director:
Origin7 Ltd

Melanie Dawson

Director: Origin7 Ltd

Melanie brings a wealth of practical hands on BIM & Digital Construction knowledge from an extensive and varied construction career over the past 15+ years. She has held a variety of challenging leadership roles over her career to date including strategic management, Head of BIM, Director of Digital Construction through to owning her own BIM & Digital Construction Consultancy company Origin7 Ltd.

She is the founding member and Chair of the NI BIM regions group (now part of the UK BIM Alliance) since its inception. Melanie’s leadership has been fundamental in the delivery of many high profile public and private sector projects across the UK, focusing in on driving organisations to deliver by ensuring the right people, processes and technology are in place. Melanie led the first team in the UK to become dual BSi BIM Kitemark holders and was made a Fellow of the ICE in 2018.

She has established a number of BIM training Academies which lead clients, colleagues and supply chain through the use of BIM and digital tools including ensuring the return on those investments. Melanie is the driving force behind many exciting R&D projects in the realms of MMC (Modern Methods of Construction), Data Analytics, VR/AR, and adoption of laser scanning technology.

She is currently enjoying working on the client side after many years in the design or contractor teams. She enjoys variety, challenge and the ever advancing BIM & Digital Construction landscape, but most of all making a difference and continually raising the standards as a dynamic leader and bringing others on that journey too.

CEO & Founder,
Athenophilia Ltd

Henry Fenby-Taylor

Head of Information Management,
Centre for Digital Built Britain

As the Head of Information Management for the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Henry brings with him a breadth of experience from research to implementation that includes everything from getting his hands dirty on projects to leading programmes of work for large clients. Henry began his digital career as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate bringing the benefits of BIM to Colour Urban Design Limited. He acted as Group BIM Implementation Manager at WYG where he was responsible for critical projects as well as developing and implementing the company’s BIM policy. Since then Henry has been a digital consultant working on diverse projects in sectors from Nuclear to Water. Henry’s experience across the built environment in the Information Management space allows him to represent the interests of clients, consultants and constructors that is grounded in his own experience and reality. Henry is committed to providing technical leadership and Information Management policy in a transparent and collaborative way so that it can meet the needs of the many stakeholders that it affects.

Henry is a passionate supporter of developing early career professionals and wants to enable and facilitate their career growth to build the resilience of this emerging profession. Henry is also a firm believer in the power of entrepreneurialism and innovation to solve many of the problems facing the built environment today and that this innovation can help to deliver greater sustainability and profitability for the great value that the built environment delivers to society.

Chief Executive,
Structural Timber Association (STA)

Andrew Carpenter

Chief Executive, Structural Timber Association (STA)

Andrew joined the UK construction industry in 1977 with the manufacturing giant CRH and held a series of sales and business development roles in his early years. It was the groundbreaking Rethinking Construction Report of 1998 that was to change Andrew’s career path as he became involved in change management and best practice, first within CRH and then later as a Board Member and Director of Constructing Excellence.

During this time he was the inaugural chair of the national ‘Best Practice’ Club network and the public face of Constructing Excellence being responsible for marketing, events, communications and membership.

From 2008 – 2010 he worked as a consultant in ‘lean’ measures, which included Andrew helping to set up and then become one of the first fifteen students of the CWA (Collaborative Working Academy).

Andrew was delighted to be asked to become Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Association (then the UKTFA) in January 2011.

Andrew is now helping to spearhead the drive for Sustainable Construction by the use of more structural timber in building with a ‘Fabric First’ approach.

Andrew was appointed Chief Executive of Constructing Excellence South West in September 2013, stepping down in 2022, and Chief Executive of Constructing Excellence Midlands in May 2018.

In 2011 Andrew was rewarded for his services to best practice within the UK construction industry by being awarded the ‘Achiever Award’ in the 2011 CIOB/CESW South West Built Environment Awards.

Andrew is currently a member of the Construction Leadership Council Construct Zero Board and sits on the Government’s Timber in Construction Working Group.

Director, Nuclear, Energy & Retrofit
Mace Group

Rachel O’Donnell

Director – Nuclear, Energy & Retrofit, Mace Group

Rachel has over 20 years of experience across a range of sectors, including energy, nuclear and industrial, developing strategy and implementing complex programmes.

She is currently Mace’s Director for Nuclear and Energy and sits on the Mace Consult Leadership team. She has extensive experience at a senior leadership level within engineering and environmental consultancy arena. Prior to joining Mace she was with AECOM for 12 years, in her last role she led the Ground Engineering, Remediation and Energy business, restructuring and refocusing the teams to drive more focused growth. Rachel is Chair of the Northern Nuclear Alliance and sits on the North West Business Leadership Team.

Consultant - Ingenuity & Engineering
PA Consulting

Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni

Consultant - Ingenuity & Engineering
PA Consulting

Mara is a consultant with international experience (USA, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, SA) and over 10 years of professional experience. She is a qualified Systems Engineer who has managed and implemented complex projects in energy and transport, from feasibility to completion. She brings a wealth of experience of operation monitoring and due diligence advisory across sustainable development, renewable energy and transport. Mara is an active and contributing Member of the Institution of Engineering Technology and plays an active role in Intelligent Transport Systems UK.

Senior Lecturer in Digital Living, Northumbria University

Kay Rogage

Senior Lecturer in Digital Living, Northumbria University

Dr. Kay Rogage is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Living in the School of Computing Information Sciences at Northumbria University and an active member of Northumbria’s BIM Academy Research Team.

She is an applied researcher who’s work spans across the disciplines of computer science and the built environment. Kay’s research focuses on the developing technical solutions that allow data integration across technologies enabling the interoperability of building models to overcome the technical barriers around data exchange in the built environment.

As a software developer in industry predominantly working in the digital construction sector, Kay has integrated her practical industry knowledge with academic research on a number of industry collaborations to overcome issues around disparate, fragmented data sets such as BIM data and sensor data, for developing knowledge from the data to support building operation and improve occupant well-being.

Her work involves using machine learning techniques to explore feature selection and pattern matching across data to improve data retrieval and interoperability.

Partners

Stephen Hodder was educated at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester, where he gained a Distinction in the Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following University, he joined Building Design Partnership in 1981 and became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1982.

He has been in practice since 1983 and in 1992 formed Hodder Associates which won the Royal Fine Art Commission/ Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire later that year.

In 1996 Hodder Associates, now Hodder+Partners, received the most important award in British Architecture for a single building, the inaugural RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. The Practice has now won over forty major awards.

He was RIBA President 2013-15, having previously been Vice President Membership, Nations and Regions.

He regularly acts as an assessor for architectural competitions and awards, most recently for the RAIC International Prize and sits on the Design Review Panel for Places Matter!

He was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1998.

He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture and won the Roses Design Award of ‘Architect of the Year’ in the same year.

Stephen has written and lectured widely, has been a visiting examiner at a number of schools of architecture and visiting Professor at the Birmingham School of Architecture, the Belfast School of Architecture and the University of Salford, School of the Built Environment.

He is currently external examiner at ‘Ion Mincu’ University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest and Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Stephen received an honorary fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire in 2013 and elected as Chair of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) for 2019-2021.

Chairman,
Hodder & Partners

Stephen Hodder

Chairman, Hodder+Partners

Stephen has been in practice since 1983 and in 1992 formed Hodder Associates which won the Royal Fine Art Commission/ Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire later that year.

In 1996 Hodder Associates, now Hodder+Partners, received the inaugural RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. The Practice has now won over sixty major awards, including seventeen awards for the Welcome Building at RHS Garden Bridgewater.

Stephen was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, 1998.

He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture and a honorary fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire in 2013. He is currently Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. He was RIBA President 2013-15, having previously been Vice President Membership, Nations and Regions and Chair of the Construction Industry Council 2019-2021.

In 2023, Stephen received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manchester Society of Architects.

BIM Project Leader for
the UK House of Commons

David Shepherd

BIM Project Leader for the UK House of Commons

Dave Shepherd is BIM project leader for the UK House of Commons in Westminster, London.

In this role, he is responsible to UK Parliament for assuring that supply chains deliver improved and more sustainable asset outcomes through innovation and the collaborative use of BIM.

In conjunction with AECOM, he wrote the BIM implementation strategy for the Restoration and Renewal of the UK Houses of Parliament.

Dave is also the RIBA-commissioned author of the widely acclaimed BIM Management Handbook

Director & Principal Architect,
David Miller Architects

David Miller

Director & Principal Architect,
David Miller Architects

David has worked at the highest levels of design both in the UK and abroad and is passionate about emerging technology, progressive architecture and delivery excellence.

Before setting up the practice, David worked in the offices of Norman Foster and Santiago Calatrava, then became an associate director of Future Systems, where he was project architect for the Stirling Prize-winning Media Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

His specialist knowledge of complex buildings evolved into an interest in three-dimensional analysis and computer modelling to enhance building design. This is fundamental to the practice’s approach to search for delight and proportion in solutions to everyday problems.

Founder, DiverseCity Surveyors and Digital Director, BIM Academy

Bola Abisogun OBE

Founder, DiverseCity Surveyors and Digital Director, BIM Academy

With an over-arching intention to deploy digital twins into ‘regulated professional services’ citing cultural change, Bola was appointed to sit on the Gemini Council at the Centre for Digital Built Britain and remains a co-author of the infamous Gemini Papers and the Digital Twin toolkit. He is a well-documented industry disruptor, innovative systems developer, a longstanding Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and an eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He is the Founder & Chairman of DiverseCity Surveyors (DCS) – a highly successful peer-to-peer network offering excellence and thought-leadership from across the global, non-traditional talent pool, along with culturally competent support services, for surveyors who are members, or aspiring members of RICS and CIOB.

With a commitment to disruptive technology, Bola is also the Digital Director at BIM Academy and amongst his other commitments to ESG, young people and diversity, he was appointed [April 2022] to serve on the City of London Corporations’ Taskforce set to shape and promote [by 2025] the skills required to decarbonise all commercial buildings in the Square Mile and across the City of London. He works extensively with the Mayor of London and the GLA and since 2013, has been the Chairman of the ‘Moving on Up’ (MoU) initiative, London Advisory Board (funded by Trust for London, the City Bridge Trust and supported by the Mayor of London).

In the 2019 New Years Honours list, Bola was awarded an OBE for services to Diversity and to Young People in the Construction Industry; by the late HM Queen Elizabeth II.”

AFBE-UK Industry Engagement Lead
(Sustainable Homes)

Jonathan Fashanu

AFBE-UK Industry Engagement Lead (Sustainable Homes)

Jonathan Fashanu is a chartered civil and structural engineer, passive house designer and regenerative practitioner. He is the founding director of Studio DASH, a multidisciplinary building design practice focusing on sustainable development. Prior to working in the UK, he worked as a project engineer on large building projects in Nigeria and Singapore.

He teaches Environment and Technical Studies at the Architectural Association. Jonathan is also a changemaker for the Engineers Without Borders UK championing global responsibility and is a board member for the Association of Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers, EDI+ Network and Nigerian Society of Engineers. Recently, he was selected to be part of the cohort of Future Leaders by the UK Green Building Council.

Founding Director,
digitalgreen.io

Casey Rutland

Founding Director of digitalgreen.io

Casey is a digital advocate with a focus on company transformation from a people perspective.

With over 20 years of experience as an architect working in and leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver sports stadia, city centre developments, healthcare facilities and heritage buildings, he brings a clear, concise empathy-driven communication method to the seemingly vast topic of ‘digital transformation’.

As Founding Director of digitalgreen.io, he is responsible for driving the adoption of emergent technologies that enable the company to perform optimally, generate new products or services and engage staff in a thriving agile environment.

Casey helps businesses realise the value of digital, through workshops, written papers and the successful (and free) global BIMOpenMic series of events.

Casey is regularly invited to speak at conferences on topics relating to the new digital era of our industry, guest lectures at various universities around the world and is a proud STEM Ambassador.

Built Envrionment Lead, The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)

Rick Hartwig

Built Envrionment Lead,
The Institution of Engineering
& Technology (IET)

Rick is the Built Environment Lead for The Institution of Engineering and Technology where he is responsible for thought leadership and policy in the Built Environment. Digitalisation and decarbonisation of the Built Environment sector are passions. He is an Ambassador for the UK BIM Alliance and adviser to Prin-D Technology
Rick has lead on several significant publications at the IET:

Scaling up Retrofit 2050
Digital Twins for the Built Environment
Manufacturers’ Product Data: A Plain Language Guide

Presently he is involved the ‘48VDC Realisation Forum’ an initiative that’s looking at the benefits stopping DC energy distribution in buildings. An exemplar is due to be unveiled soon.
Prior to this he gained experience in a dozen EU funded FP6 and FP7 projects. He was the coordinator FP7 project CILECCTA, whose main goal was to develop a ‘Life Cycle Cost plus Analysis’ tool for the development and operational management of a building that would provide the user with a single view of financial and environmental factors.
Time spent in the financial sector shows he survived and understand many of the cultural and operational challenges of digitalisation.

Global Director of Commercial,
Legal and Digital Risks, Buro Happold

May Winfield

Global Director of Commercial, Legal and Digital Risks, Buro Happold

May is a senior construction lawyer of over 19 years’ experience and is recognised as a leading legal specialist in BIM and construction technology.

May has a passion for innovation in the industry and has provided pragmatic advice and thoughts on the legal impact of construction technology to clients and at events worldwide for some years.

May has co-authored various documents in this field, including legal guidance on the ISO19650 Information Management international standard and an ISO19650-compliant Information Protocol, a JCT Practice Note on BIM. She is one of the co-authors of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Digital Twins Roadmap and their recently released Digital Twins Toolkit Report.

She is a nima Ambassador, co-founder and chair of BIM4Legal and a member of various other industry groups seeking to support the industry in progressing and implementing digital technology.

May won Best Women in Construction Law in the Women in Construction and Engineering Awards 2020, was named as one of the Construction Idols by London Build 2022, and most recently won the Compliance Innovator award at the highly regarded Lexology European Counsel Awards 2023.

Founder,
Rai Investment Group

Parveen Rai

Founder, Rai Investment Group

A Chair and board member with over 20 years of property expertise and governance experience in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Parveen combines strategic, commercial, and digital experience with a solid understanding of financial oversight, risk management, and culture. Broad developmental and management experience in the real estate industry spanning nationally with a record of delivering growth at the leading edge of innovation and services. Parveen focuses on building customer loyalty and effective and resilient teams.

Product Innovation Lead at BRE
(Building Research Establishment)

Paul Howard

Building Research Establishment

Paul Howard is the Product Innovation Lead at BRE, the UK’s leading building science centre, and is a Chartered Engineer with a strong background in acoustics and building safety.

He is an innovation professional who has been involved in product innovation and innovation management in the construction sector for over 30 years.

Before joining BRE in 2020, Paul spent the majority of his career working for building materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain driving innovations in the company’s product and service offers. During this time Paul developed a passion for delivering innovations that are built on human factor insights and that are developed using a test, learn and iterate approach.

He is now helping to shape the future for BRE by uncovering new opportunity spaces where BRE can innovate to enhance the built environment.

Specialist Consulting BIM Innovation Lead, Buro Happold

Mairead Gallagher Morgan

Specialist Consulting BIM Innovation Lead; Buro Happold; Women in BIM Mentor

Mairead is a Women in BIM Mentor and the Specialist UK BIM Lead for the Specialist Consulting team at Buro Happold.

Prior to starting her role at Buro Happold, her background was in architecture, having worked during and prior to her architectural education, for almost 17 years.

Mairead has a substantial amount of experience in the design and technical delivery of architectural projects across a diverse range of sectors including education, defence, justice, commercial architecture, high-end residential, build to rent, retail and interior design. Most recently working for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for 4 years as a Project BIM Lead and architectural designer, for several commercial projects. This experience has enabled her to gain a varied view of the architecture and construction industry.

Now at Buro Happold, Mairead’s focus is on leading the Specialist Consulting BIM team to develop and innovate the digital, computational and technological capabilities across several disciplines within Specialist Consulting including fire engineering, façade engineering, technology, security and specialist lighting. As well as working as Specialist BIM lead on several unique and complex global projects, and closely collaborating with the wider design teams.

The 2023 judging panel

Jackie Maginnis

Jackie Maginnis

George Mokhtar

George Mokhtar

Sam Stacey

Sam Stacey

Melanie Dawson

Melanie Dawson

Henry Fenby-Taylor

Henry Fenby-Taylor

ANDREW CARPENTER

Andrew Carpenter

Rachel O’Donnell

Rachel O’Donnell

Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni

Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni

Kay Rogage

Kay Rogage

Stephen Hodder

Stephen Hodder

David Shepherd

David Shepherd

David Miller

David Miller

Bola Abisogun OBE

Bola Abisogun OBE

Jonathan Fashanu

Jonathan Fashanu

Casey rutland

Casey Rutland

Rick Hartwig

Rick Hartwig

May Winfield

May Winfield

PARVEEN RAI

Parveen Rai

Paul Howard

Paul Howard

Mairead Gallagher Morgan

Mairead Gallagher Morgan

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