Digital Construction Awards finalists!

The UU Enterprise & IAND team are delighted to be shortlisted for the Digital Collaboration of the Year category at the 2026 Digital Construction Awards, recognising our joint work transforming how complex supplier ecosystems collaborate and operate at scale.

Digital Collaboration of the Year

What are the Digital Construction Awards?

The Digital Construction Awards celebrate the very best use of digital innovation across the built environment. They showcase organisations and partnerships that are using technology to improve collaboration, productivity, transparency, and outcomes across projects and supply chains in the UK.

What have we been nominated for?

The UU Enterprise & IAND partnership has been shortlisted for our work building and operating a truly integrated digital supplier ecosystem to support the delivery of £3bn of AMP8 investment across the Northwest.

Operating under the Project 13 model, the Enterprise brings together eight delivery partners and more than 300 suppliers into a single way of working. Powered by the IAND platform, this has enabled:

• A single shared system for supplier onboarding, compliance and performance

• Over 90% automation of critical workflows

• Real-time visibility of supplier risk, capacity, performance and spend across partners

• Rapid onboarding of over 300 suppliers in just 30 days

• Faster mobilisation and meaningful time savings for both delivery teams and suppliers

• Improved access for regional SMEs to join the programme

Together, UU Enterprise and IAND have shown what’s possible when digital collaboration is designed in from the start - creating a shared operating model built on transparency, trust and consistent data across the entire ecosystem.

The collaboration was also featured by Construction management as part of its Digital collaboration of the Year shortlist – read more here.

Want to find out more?

If you’re exploring how to better connect partners, suppliers and data across complex programmes, we’d be happy to share what we’ve learned. Get in touch.