The Smart Motorways Programme Alliance operates on Project 13 principles and comprises National Highways as the client, Fluor responsible for production management, Jacobs and WSP handling digitally-enabled design, and Balfour Beatty, Costain and the BAM Nuttall-Morgan Sindall JV as on-site assembly partners. Collectively, they work with more than 100 suppliers, ranging from SMEs to global players.
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Their challenges included:
- facilitating secure, collaborative sharing and information management;
- integrating the UK BIM Framework across the seven alliance partners and the many varied programmes;
- overcoming different legacy systems/corporate policies and levels of digital maturity;
- fostering a culture of unprecedented integrated collaboration, communication and transparency that promotes data-led insights and decision-making for greater productivity/efficiencies, along with enhanced quality and unified governance; and
- encouraging innovation and programmatic approaches for successful delivery while driving safer, more efficient, greener solutions that simultaneously maximise road user benefits.
What the judges said
“This is a fantastic example of how digital collaboration is being used to integrate quite a complex collaboration model. There are major tangible gains which is excellent, and demonstrates how such a partnership could be replicated on other large-scale infrastructure projects.”
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