It's all about DATA

Data is the energy that fuels our digital tools. To answer critical questions for our clients and our own business, we need to understand the data we have. Our experts are taking this data, combining their industry knowledge and creating significant new improvements around time, cost, efficiency and quality.

The overall winner of our Innovation in Action Awards 2024 was a new tool that focuses on a key area of project delivery – equipment specification and procurement.  

Overall winner – Best Lean Idea  

Imagine an equipment database with millions of parts numbered, every specification listed and each part costed. Now imagine this database as fully searchable and capable of generating equipment procurement schedules and datasheets. Finally, enable it to export 3D models and vendor documentation. The result? A highly sophisticated equipment information portal that lowers costs, improves collaboration and results in happier clients.  

Congratulations to the overall winners ​Rakesh Ravi, Allwin Mathew, Katie Grehan and Avita Abi-Elias.

“We’re really excited about the future for our business and the new innovations our talented teams are generating. Our proficiency with data, AI and digital tools is accelerating our ability to meet client expectations,” said Niall O’Loughlin, Strategic Development, PM Group.  

Other finalists included:

• Digital Production Lab – a dive into data for project performance: This smart innovation provides a single suite of products to integrate the vast amount of design and construction data on complex projects. Housed in an immersive space, this digitally enabled control room allows for superior communications and better, faster decision-making
• Best Digital AI idea – using data and AI to improve space configuration: Based on our database of global projects, this unique tool is helping clients to share critical space requirements at the earliest stage of the design phase. It includes key metrics, net and gross area requirements and mood boards. It helps to set expectations, budgeting and will lead to better outcomes for our clients 
• Process Safety – the safest design is an inherently safer one: Our teams are revisiting how to use data to improve our process safety services. This new innovation proposes a visualisation tool to communicate hazards earlier in the project lifecycle. It is helping to reduce potential issues and save rework 
• Quality – Best Quality Improvement: For this innovation, our teams looked at improvements in the area of design quality using standardised parametric modelling. Working with data and digital tools, we identified significant improvements around design standards and reductions in drawing development time