AtkinsRéalis
DASS Solutions
fivD
Gensler Middle East
ROSHN Group
Our international, independent judging panel assessed hundreds of submissions to capture the shortlist of finalists who have shown innovation and excellence through their success stories.
The winners were announced during our awards ceremony on 5 December 2023 at The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, Dubai, UAE.
We would like to sincerely thank all the companies and individuals who have submitted their entries across the 19 categories and would like to congratulate the winners on their spectacular achievement!
Big 5 Lifetime Achievement Award
Sustainability Leader of the Year
Deputy Executive Director, Museum of the Future
Technology Leader of the Year
Founder and CEO, Citra Construction
Sustainable Initiative of the Year
Project: Qatareef
Best Use of Technology
Project: BIM Technology
Workforce of the Future Initiative
Project: Sobha Institute of Construction Excellence + Honor & Pride Initiatives
Conservation & Heritage
Initiative of the Year
Project: Jubail Island
Community of the Future
Project: The Sustainable City
Circularity Initiative of the Year
Project: Vipingo Development Limited
Award for Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Carbon Net-Zero Initiative of the Year
Project: The Link - CO-LAB building
Digital Twin Project of the Year
(in association with Al Bawani Holding)
Project: 30 MLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant - Wastewater
Digital Transformation of the Year
Digitalization Project of the Year
Project: The Sustainable City Yas Island
Retrofit Project of the Year
Project: Reconstruction of Beirut
Prefabrication & Modular Construction Project of the Year
Project: Red Sea Sheybarah South Hotel, KSA
Partnership of the Year
(in association with BETAM)
Sustainable Construction
Project of the Year
Project: Masdar City Square
Innovative Construction
Organization of the Year
Sustainable Construction
Organization of the Year
Technology Leader of the Year
Project: Julie Alexander, Director of Smart Cities
and Environmental Sustainability
Community of the Future
Project: The Red Sea Destination - Phase 1
AtkinsRéalis
DASS Solutions
fivD
Gensler Middle East
ROSHN Group
AD Ports Group
Project: Project Shamal - Net Zero Carbon Admin Building
Aldar Properties PJSC
Project: Lagoons Net Zero Pathfinder Pilot Project
Department of Public Works
Project: Al Ghaf Public Park
ECOnsult
Project: The Bahareya Farm Complex
Masdar City
Project: The Link - CO-LAB building
SEE Holding
Project: SEE Institute
KEO International Consultants
Project: The Red Sea Destination - Phase 1
Milicon's Ltd.
Project: Feminist Republik Healing Farm
ROSHN Group
Project: SEDRA
Thakher Development
Project: Thakher Makkah
SEE Holding
Project: The Sustainable City
Kshetra Consultants & The KCP Limited
Project: Muktyala Fort and Palace, India
Lead Real Estate Developer
Project: Jubail Island
Red Sea Global
Project: Regenerative Tourism: Setting New Standards for the Industry
RIWAQ- Centre for Architectural Conservation
Project: Ali Salem Mansion in Beitillu, Palestine
Vikas Dilawari Architects
Project: CSMVS Museum (erstwhile Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai
ALSUWEIDI Engineering Consultants Bureau
AtkinsRéalis
Gleeds
KEO International Consultants
Parsons
Retal Urban Development Company
MABEQ Solutions FZCO
Project: The Continuous Basalt Fiber Production Facility
MaRS Planning and Engineering Services
Project: 30 MLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant - Wastewater
ROSHN Group
Project: WAREFA
China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East
Project: Downtown Views II
SEE Holding
Project: The Sustainable City Yas Island
Gleeds
Project: Orchestrate - Digital PMO Transformation
MaRS Planning and Engineering Services
Project: 30 MLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant - Wastewater
Dubai Municipality
Sobha Constructions LLC
Aluminium, Glazing, Engineering & Contracting Company (ALGECO)
Project: Reconstruction of Beirut
Bin Dasmal Engineering Technologies & Management Co. LLC
Project: Chilled Water Piping Upgradation and Refurbishment at Kalba Hospital, Sharjah.
Khatib & Alami
Project: The View Hospital
Studio Strato
Project: K-Farmhouse
Al Ajmi Engineering Consultants
Project: The Sustainable City Yiti
Aldar Properties PJSC
Project: Cranleigh School Expansion
Department of Public Works
Project: Sharjah Ports, Customs, and Free Zones Authority Building
Masdar City
Project: Masdar City Square
Museum of the Future
Project: Museum of the Future
Queen's University Belfast
Project: Transforming Agricultural Waste into Biochar for Profitable Carbon Credits and Ultra-Carbon Negative Buildings
Joint Venture of Metito Limited, Orascom Construction, The Arab Contractors Company, Hassan Allam Construction, Khatib & Alami
Project: New Delta Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sharjah Sustainable City
Project: Sharjah Sustainable City
ALSUWEIDI Engineering Consultants Bureau
Project: SECB ERP
Citra Construction
Project: Citra Building Technology
HBK Contracting Company
Project: Roads and Infrastructure in Umm Slal Mohammed - Package 01
HK Consulting
Project: BIM 5D Project
KEO International Consultants
Project: Implementing Digital Twinning, Cloud-based planning, Automation, and bespoke solutions
ROSHN Group
Project: BIM Technology
Safety Shield Global, on behalf of SCS JV HS2 and Lynch Plant Hire
Project: AI Pedestrian Detection & Autonomous Breaking in Plant Machinery
Centum Real Estate
Project: Vipingo Development Limited
Hadya Group
Project: Grey Water Project
ASGC Construction, Grimshaw Architects, Sunovation Middle East
ECOnsult and Ashden
Joint Venture of Metito Limited, Orascom Construction, The Arab Contractors Company, Hassan Allam Construction, Khatib & Alami
ZDS Architects, Gallium, G-Studio
China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East
Project: Downtown Views II
Grankraft Construction
Project: Red Sea Sheybarah South Hotel, KSA
Tamimi Global (Tafga)
Project: Amaala Triple Bay Construction Village
Layali Al Mulla
Dubai Municipality
Kabir Mulchandani
FIVE
Virendra D. Mhaiskar
IRB Infrastructure Developers
Chris Wan
Masdar City
Sai Prasad Parchuri
Milicon's Ltd.
Majed Al Mansoori
Museum of the Future
Waleed Alghamdi
ROSHN Group
AECOM
AtkinsRéalis
Gensler
Masdar City
Red Sea Global
ROSHN Group
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sobha Constructions LLC
AD Ports Group
Project: Khalifa Port Coral Relocation and Conservation Project
Bin Dasmal Engineering Technologies & Management Co. LLC
Project: EKTHAAR
Centum Real Estate
Project: Two Rivers Power Company - Two Rivers Solar Plant
Diriyah Company
Project: Diriyah I: The City of Earth
ECOnsult
Project: Fares Village Kom Ombo Aswan
Egis
Project: Qatareef
Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Project: Yanbu Industrial City – The Journey to Sustainability
The Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman & Co.)
Project: Restoration of Burullus Lake in Egypt
Anas Diab
ALSUWEIDI Engineering Consultants Bureau
Joel Baur
Citra Construction
Julie Alexander
Diriyah Company
Christopher Smeaton
KEO International Consultants
Marwan AbuEbeid
Turner Construction International
Al Bawani Holding
Project: National Construction Academy
fivD
Project: Project TimeShift: Reshaping the Workforce Landscape
Red Sea Global
Project: Ceating Saudi Leaders of the Future
ROSHN Group
Project: Himam Graduate Program
Sobha Constructions LLC
Project: Sobha Institute of Construction Excellence + Honor & Pride Initiatives
The Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman & Co.)
Project: Training for Development Initiative
Recognising sustainable development, technological and digital achievements in the construction industry. Big 5 Global Impact Awards have been created to inspire the Middle East, Africa and South Asia’s construction industry to aim for higher standards and achieve new goals.
Categories explore companies creating smart communities of the future, how we use technology and digitalisation to enable more sustainable construction practices, as well as honouring organisations driving inclusion and diversity, team collaboration, partnerships, and individual leadership.
Click below to view individual award categories and submit nominations.
This award recognizes an organization that through their efforts has helped provide a more diverse and inclusive workplace and culture through initiatives, programmes, policies, and practices that have directly enhanced the success and culture of the organization and environment for current employees. Examples of initiative areas could include (not limited to): employing and attracting a diverse workforce, ensuring equal treatment of employees, embracing a culture of diversity and inclusion, providing employees with the support to fulfil their potential, supporting gender balance, supporting parents, leadership development in Diversity and Inclusion (regional/country approach).
This category will recognize leading initiatives (across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia) that implement a reduction in embodied carbon during the construction of new infrastructure, or buildings that support carbon net zero aims. The initiative could also be an alternative design, use of new materials, or innovative equipment to reduce energy consumption during a project and its lifecycle. The project does not have to be complete, however, evidence is requested that shows the lower or zero carbon impact of the initiative. How the initiative presents a reduction in embodied carbon and the impact of the design on reducing operational carbon should also be demonstrated where possible. (Product suppliers are not eligible).
The Community of the Future award will recognize the community development demonstrating a commitment to the following areas throughout the construction cycle: collaboration, connectivity, reducing environmental footprint and waste, access to healthcare and education, resilience, urban mobility, safety, security, and data-driven performance.
This award is open to a specific client digitalization project. Entrants must demonstrate client and cross-team collaboration, how people were at the heart of the project, project objectives, results, successful use of data and reporting, and how any challenges were overcome. The entry must give evidence of how digitalization improved the construction project processes and operating model.
This award is open to organizations demonstrating how their digital twin project has increased creativity in design and how designs have been tested using data. Entrants must show how the project was developed and implemented and how they overcame challenges. They must also be able to demonstrate their results. Examples of improvements in efficiency, work environment, workflow, and structure of the workplace should be shown.
The Partnership of the Year award will recognize partnerships between project owners and project teams that demonstrate a collaborative management approach. Entries should deliver clear evidence of alignment of objectives, common culture, team integration, overcoming challenges together, knowledge transfer, and wow-factor successes as a team.
Open to all building types, situated in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. This award recognizes and celebrates the retrofit of a building that most effectively demonstrates high levels of user satisfaction while delivering outstanding measured building performance - the vital adaptation and repurposing of existing buildings, setting a precedent to inspire the industry’s carbon footprint in the process. Please include evidence of significant energy/water savings, improved IAQ, and contribution to making the building greener.
(Eligible entrants: project owners, building operators, architecture and design firms, main contractors, and project management companies)
This award will honour a leader (in-house Senior Manager or Director) who is a pioneer in their organization and a role model for their profession. The winner will be an ambassador of environmental, social, and economic issues, this individual will be able to demonstrate how their passion, collaboration, successful work results, innovation, and leadership have inspired positive outcomes for their business and the wider construction industry.
The Sustainable Construction Project of the Year award will be given to the organization or project teams (cross-company joint entries will be accepted) responsible for delivering an innovative construction project with proven sustainable benefits to the community. The entry must demonstrate that they have gone over and above standards for the built environment and embedded Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles into the project. Evidence should focus on the period, January 2020 - July 2023.
This award will honour a leader (in-house Senior Manager or Director) who is a pioneer in their organization and a role model for their profession. The winner will be an ambassador for embedding technology into their business. This individual will be able to demonstrate how their passion, collaboration, successful work results, innovation, and leadership have inspired positive outcomes for their business and the wider construction industry.
The Best Use of Technology award is open to organizations (non-technology providers) who can show how they have used technology to improve processes and efficiency, while engaging teams and/or clients in technology. Organizations should provide evidence of how the business case for the technology was developed, data-driven decision-making, specific innovations, improvements in business and/or project performance, competitive advantage, benefits, and any potential to disrupt the wider industry.
The successful initiative could be an example of reusing materials and/or design for deconstruction to efforts to establish marketplaces for used building materials. Initiatives must show how they are reducing emissions from building materials and the industry’s impact on nature and biodiversity. Example initiatives could include: new design approaches and solutions towards the waste-free building, new fabrication, construction, and deconstruction strategies enabling circularity, adaptable, upgradeable, regenerative, resilient building technologies, and systems, upcycling of building and construction waste materials, product-service systems (PSS) and performance-based contracts, innovative business models for circular building materials, products and technologies, industry 4.0 digital technologies and platforms for circular transition management, circularity-readiness, and performance assessment strategies (beyond LCA), applied research, demonstration projects, and case studies.
Evidence can be provided on the contribution of gathering, storing, exchanging, and using data, including the valuation of the financial and environmental impact of materials and products used.
This award recognizes, for example,
- Heritage design and architecture. Heritage structures could include cultural, natural, and mixed projects or buildings.
- Conservation Management Plans (CMP)
- New projects that have been conceived for the protection and conservation of the surrounding area.
- Methods of restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and maintenance of existing historic buildings.
This award is open to organizations (non-technology providers) that can demonstrate how they have successfully implemented sustainable digital transformation in their business. Entrants must show how they have had a successful impact on the business by focusing on fixing pain points, team collaboration, operational change, and fostering innovation. Examples of improved productivity, digital use cases, and positive impact on client projects and engagement should be provided.
This award will be given to an organization demonstrating how it has embedded innovation into its business strategy. Examples may include success stories of employee and stakeholder engagement, and competitor advantage, and include evidence of quantifiable impact on the business and client projects. Evidence should focus on the period January 2020 - July 2023.
This award will honour project teams who can demonstrate close collaboration with clients, innovation, and delivery of a wow-factor project which could inspire the wider construction industry. Entrants will encompass modular construction, manufacturing, planning, design, fabrication, 3D printing, and assembly of building elements at a location other than the final project location. Entrants must demonstrate how their project has minimized waste and environmental impact, reduced carbon emissions, and maximized labour productivity. This award is open to projects completed in the period January 2020 - July 2023.
This award will be given to an organization demonstrating how it has embedded sustainability – including Environmental, Social, and Governance ESG principles – into its business strategy. Examples may include success stories of employee and stakeholder engagement, competitor advantage, support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and include evidence of quantifiable environmental impact, support for climate change mitigation, low- and zero-carbon initiatives, and positive social impact. Evidence should focus on the period January 2020 - July 2023.
The Sustainable Initiative of the Year award will go to the single initiative demonstrating successful implementation, showing clear measurements of success, collaboration, and outcomes – including Environmental, Social, and Governance ESG principles – in its work. Evidence should focus on the period, January 2020 - July 2023.
The Workforce of the Future Initiative award will go to an organization that has successfully implemented a programme to encourage young people into its workforce, improve the skills of its current workforce, focus on worker welfare, and introduce processes that enable transition, encourage knowledge transfer, and foster innovation. Evidence should demonstrate employee engagement in digital transformation, data projects, training, and development programmes, and attracting and recruiting young professionals.