BIM Organisation of the Year

BEC Arabia is a leading construction and engineering contractor delivering complex buildings and infrastructure projects across the Middle East. Digital transformation is embedded in the company’s delivery model, with BIM positioned as a strategic capability rather than a standalone modelling exercise.

BEC Arabia applies BIM as a structured information management process that spans design coordination, construction planning, cost control, and asset data readiness.

Through multidisciplinary federated models, a governed Common Data Environment (CDE), and clearly defined BIM roles and workflows, the organisation ensures accurate, reliable, and timely information throughout the project lifecycle. This enables informed decision-making, improved constructability, and predictable delivery outcomes.

BIM is actively deployed across residential, hospitality, mixed-use, and infrastructure projects, including giga-scale developments such as Diriyah, Amaala and Neom. By integrating BIM with 4D sequencing, 5D cost management, and model-based progress tracking, BEC Arabia has measurably reduced rework, improved site productivity, and strengthened collaboration with clients and the supply chain.

BEC Arabia’s BIM journey reflects a clear commitment to international best practice, alignment with ISO 19650 principles, and continuous capability development. The organisation continues to invest in people, processes, and technology to deliver high-quality, future-ready projects that meet evolving client and industry expectations.

Buro Eight is a contractor-focused BIM and digital delivery organisation that turns complex, fast-moving projects into coordinated, buildable information. On major stadium and infrastructure programmes, late design changes, incomplete interfaces, and multi-stakeholder approvals were repeatedly driving site rework and long coordination cycles. Buro Eight's response was to formalise BIM as an operating system: ISO-aligned governance, an engineering-led BIM team, and repeatable quality controls that travel with every project.

Our approach combines three pillars:

(1) leadership and standards - ISO 19650 mindset, defined responsibilities, and measurable KPIs,

(2) delivery operations - CDE workflows, model federation, structured issue management, and disciplined model reviews, and

(3) practical innovation - automation tools, AI-assisted validation, and dashboards that remove manual checks and enforce consistency.

Unique features include an engineering-first delivery team (not model-only), a central technical governance layer supporting all projects, and in-house QA/QC automation that validates models before submission.

The aims of BIM are being met: fewer coordination failures, faster approvals, and higher confidence in the information used for construction decisions. Evidence is maintained through model review logs, issue trackers, coordination reports, and delivery dashboards that demonstrate reduced rework drivers and more predictable submission cycles across 44 active projects with a combined construction value exceeding €800m.

Dewan’s BIM transformation was driven by the need to manage increasing project complexity, coordinate global teams, and deliver consistent quality at scale. BIM has evolved from a modelling function into a strategic business capability embedded across design, construction and lifecycle delivery.

Our approach is built on three pillars: standardisation, automation and intelligence. ISO 19650 aligned standards, a central digital leadership structure and a cloud-based Common Data Environment ensure consistent delivery across multiple offices and disciplines. This foundation enables scalable coordination, reliable data and improved collaboration with clients and supply chain partners.

Dewan has progressively integrated automation to streamline model quality checks, clash workflows, data validation and repetitive documentation, significantly reducing manual effort and improving delivery consistency.

Building on this digital backbone, the organisation has introduced in-house AI capabilities that allow teams to author and interact with BIM models and project information using natural language. This transforms BIM into an accessible knowledge environment, enabling faster decisions and reducing time spent locating critical information.

The organisation’s BIM objectives improved coordination, reduced risk, higher quality and greater efficiency are being achieved, with measurable reductions in coordination time, fewer downstream conflicts and more reliable asset information for long-term value.

DuPod’s approach to BIM is grounded in precision, efficiency and digital intelligence, reframing BIM not as a design tool, but as the operational backbone of industrialised construction. Recognising the limitations of traditional 2D design - inefficiencies, frequent errors and slow iteration cycles - DuPod adopted BIM to streamline workflows, reduce rework and enhance design accuracy.

A key differentiator is DuPod’s structured implementation of LOD, ensuring that models evolve from conceptual to fabrication-ready details LOD 400. By integrating rich LOI, embedding data supporting material optimisation, cost certainty and full lifecycle visibility, transforming models into decision-making instruments.

Collaboration is at the core of DuPod’s BIM strategy. A cloud-based CDE synchronises project data, enabling seamless coordination between architects, engineers and manufacturers. AI-powered generative design, digital twins, and Industry 4.0 automation further optimise project outcomes, reducing costs and timelines while improving sustainability.

Clash detection has reduced on-site conflicts by 85%, design efficiency has improved by 30%, and integrated sustainability initiatives have delivered a 25% carbon emission reduction. Outcomes reflect more than incremental improvement, and BIM, when fully integrated with manufacturing logic and digital intelligence, can consistently outperform traditional construction models. BIM becomes not an endpoint, but a catalyst for industrial-scale transformation of the built environment.

Group AMANA’s BIM approach is enterprise-wide and delivery-first, supporting two core modes: conventional industrial/commercial design-build and industrialised offsite manufacture. We deliver fast-track warehouses, logistics centres and factories, BIM is treated as a production and decision system not only a modelling activity.

We use cloud and network collaboration to align stakeholders early, manage changes, and keep information consistent across architectural, structural steel and MEP scopes.

The trigger was scale and certainty. As our portfolio grew, BIM became essential to standardise how information is created, reviewed and shared, reduce interface risk, and accelerate ‘speed-to-market’ for clients.

Over the last year we evolved from a single BIM team into a Digital Engineering & Construction operating model: BIM Delivery (standards and quality), Virtual Design and Construction (site-facing coordination and constructability) and Development/Automation (repeatable tools and workflows).

Our aims of less rework, faster approvals, clearer accountability and higher construction readiness are being met through governed collaboration and measurable performance (CDE analytics, model QA gates and coordination KPIs included in the evidence pack).

In manufacturing-led work, the same governance supports Design for Manufacturing & Assembly integration (DuPod) and measurable offsite outcomes: DuBox reports up to 30% reduced material wastage and 30–50% less time from design to finished structures.

PNC Architects (PNCA) has embarked on a transformative digital journey to become an avant-garde solutions provider for its parent company, Sobha Realty, aligning with its vision of delivering high-quality real estate developments at speed.

PNC Architects is leading a digital transformation in real estate design and execution, integrating advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and innovation as the design arm of Sobha Realty.

This progress highlights PNC Architects' commitment to digital excellence, marked by the deployment of a robust ecosystem encompassing BIM, CDE, AI-driven workflows, and automation. By enabling real-time collaboration among internal and external stakeholders, the firm has established an industry-leading approach to digital project management, ensuring streamlined workflows and improved project delivery.

The impact of this transformation is evident in PNC Architects’ growth, supporting more than 70 active projects, delivering over 165,000 IFC submissions, and securing approvals for more than twelve Building Information Models through Dubai Municipality’s automated compliance system.

PNC Architects drives digital innovation by integrating AI, algorithmic design, and data-driven design approaches. This enhances efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability across all project phases. By prioritising technology-driven solutions, the firm optimises operations and outcomes, shaping the future of real estate development through smarter, more sustainable practices.

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) delivers future-ready, resilient, and sustainable urban infrastructure. Guided by Dubai’s long-term vision, RTA has embedded BIM at the heart of its organisational strategy to consistently exceed stakeholder and community expectations.

At RTA, BIM is not treated as a project-specific tool, but as a core enterprise capability. It enables the authority to plan, deliver, and manage complex, large-scale infrastructure and land development programs, spanning more than 4.1 million square meters, including transport networks, utilities, public amenities, and integrated urban environments.

Through this enterprise-wide adoption, BIM enhances precision, transparency, and predictability across the full asset lifecycle - from planning and design through construction, operation, and renewal.

The RTA’s BIM strategy is underpinned by a robust information management framework, aligned with international standards and powered by advanced digital platforms, providing a unified single source of truth for all stakeholders.

By seamlessly connecting people, processes, and technology under a single governance model, RTA has improved collaboration, reduced delivery risks, optimised efficiency, and strengthened sustainability outcomes - setting a benchmark for smart infrastructure management in Dubai and beyond.

Trojan Construction group adopts BIM as a governed enterprise capability embedded within the engineering department, not as a standalone technical function. This approach supports controlled decision-making that protects programmer certainty, cost integrity, quality, and coordinated delivery across multidisciplinary supply chains.

BIM governance is anchored at executive level under corporate engineering leadership and the lead manager – digital delivery & BIM. Strategy, standards, approval authority, and escalation routes are aligned with corporate governance and quality management systems, ensuring BIM decisions carry the same accountability as engineering, commercial, and risk decisions.

Trojan’s BIM model is lifecycle-driven, governing activities from tender and early initiation through procurement, technical delivery, construction, sustainability, and digital handover. BIM operates as a single source of truth for coordinated models, quantities, approvals, and asset information, ensuring traceability between design intent and construction execution.

A key differentiator is Trojan’s scalable governance model. Executive BIM leadership defines standards, while an Egypt-based Centre of Technical Excellence provides independent governance and quality assurance. Project BIM teams in the UAE and Saudi Arabia deliver within this controlled framework.

As a result, BIM at Trojan functions as a governed, auditable, and scalable business system supporting delivery certainty and future-ready digital handover.

XD House is a technology-led consultancy redefining information management across the Middle East. Over the past 24 months, we have transitioned from traditional BIM advisory to a pioneering automation-first model, enabling Saudi Arabia and Dubai’s most complex mega-projects to achieve 100% digital assurance.

Our ‘standards-as-code’ approach integrates the Morta low-code platform with Autodesk Construction Cloud, creating a dynamic ecosystem that automates the entire ISO 19650 lifecycle. This led to XD House becoming the first organisation globally to achieve the BSI Kitemark for ISO 19650 using a low-code relational database, covering both Part 2 (Delivery) and the essential Part 5 (Security).

By replacing manual, error-prone spreadsheets with automated validation and real-time planned vs. actual tracking, we have reduced administrative overhead by 20–30% and slashed Master Information Delivery Plan compilation times by 70%.

Our mission is to secure the golden thread of information, ensuring that every asset in the region is delivered with an immutable, secure, and high-quality digital legacy. Through this transformation, XD House is setting the global benchmark for what it means to be a modern BIM organisation.