HDR and Mott MacDonald Win 2024 Going Digital Award for Enterprise Engineering
Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
HDR’s Cameron Schaefer, holding award, with representatives from Mott MacDonald, Metrolinx and Bentley Systems.
Image and caption courtesy of HDR
TORONTO - HDR and Mott MacDonald won a 2024 Going Digital Award for Enterprise Engineering, presented by Bentley Systems.
The award presented by infrastructure engineering software company, Bentley Systems Inc., comes as a result of the work completed on Metrolinx’s Ontario Line Project. The project was selected from hundreds of nominations across 36 countries. The C$27 billion program involves 28 separate contracts and multiple contract approaches. According to the release from HDR, Mott MacDonald and HDR developed a “comprehensive digital delivery strategy to improve information sharing across a multi-team program.” It allowed organizations to access the right information at the right time and improved engagement and communication across the thousands of users working on the program. Included are “custom dashboards” that help “senior leadership track user access and project progress.” The team produced weekly updated 4D models by integrating digital models, construction logic, and scheduling.
HDR’s transportation digital delivery and data acquisition director Cameron Schaefer said, “Through embracing advanced digital strategies, programs like this are enabling our clients to achieve new levels of efficiency and collaboration. . . This award showcases the collaborative spirit of our team and its industry-leading digital partnership. using top talent from multiple organizations, we’re delivering a world-class project and enabling exciting new digital capabilities for Metrolinx.”
Mott MacDonald’s North American digital implementation lead Michael Gaunt said, “This project has demonstrated the value of a digital approach. Consistent data creation and sharing drives collaboration. . . Establishing foundational data management principles early on provides the right information to the right people during delivery and creates opportunities to scale the value of this data through future approaches like digital twins.”
