TechFest Conference and Awards 2024

Congratulations to our Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered, judging has finished and the winners can be seen here.

Construction News and New Civil Engineer joined forces to deliver a unique forum to discover innovative ideas from across the industry. The one day festival celebrated the projects, teams and companies embracing innovation and harnessing technology to propel the industry forward.

The day consisted of learning, networking and celebration learning from those at the forefront of the industry and understanding the key challenges, drivers, and benefits of adopting technology. With an exciting festival programme with tech labs, insightful content and interactive activities, the event truly keeps you up to date and enables you to choose your own event experience. As both construction and the civil sector modernise and embrace technology, the evening awards ceremony celebrated the industry’s achievements.

Congratulations to all our Finalists!

On our Winners' section you can also see all the Finalists with details about their project entry. We had many entries from a variety of different organisations and sectors, we are grateful to our many judges who reviewed the entries. This year's awards are bigger than ever with 20 categories designed to celebrate the projects, teams and companies doing the most to harness technologies that drive the construction and civil engineering industries forward.

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Festival programme

Our one-of-a-kind event - the festival programme moves beyond a traditional conference with a variety of interactive activities, tech labs, talks and innovation sessions. The festival provided a compelling day of content, highlighting the forward-thinking application of technology as well as innovation in the design, build and materials used in the infrastructure and buildings sectors.

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Invaluable for the Construction and Engineering Industries

With technologies and innovations available to the construction and engineering industries proliferating more quickly than ever, the landscape can be somewhat bewildering. This event will help cut through the confusion to help firms make better investments.

CN editor Colin Marrs

Bringing together of the whole construction and civil engineering sector presents an opportunity for companies to showcase and experience the innovations and technologies driving the industry forward and ensures we are sharing the best ideas right across the sector too.

NCE editor Gavin Pearson

300+

Festival Delegates

Hours of networking

Award gala dinner

Expert Speakers

We had great conversations, which we have been able to take further. TechFest is the type of show that brings forward the solutions as well as the challenges and allows us to meet the challenges with solutions.

COLAS (Sponsor)

TechFest enables us to take that leap forward and really lean into innovation.

Sensat (Delegate)

Great opportunity to talk to prospects that we wouldn’t normally have face to face interaction with.

Hitachi Solutions Europe (Sponsor)

We have a core place where we can come together socialise, network and see new technology

Mott Macdonald (Delegate)

A meeting of minds - great opportunity to make connections and have good conversations.

Octopus Energy (Sponsor)

TechFest is important to the industry because it’s a great way for people to get together from different companies, in-person, get hands on with technology and hear from speakers to hear what’s going on in the sector.

Bentley Systems (Sponsor)

TechFest is an opportunity to really highlight our products and it gives a taste into the innovation that all industries are carrying out. Bringing this to the attention to our industries is a great way of advancing our engineering sector.

AtkinsRéalis (Sponsor)

TechFest has a reputation for bringing together a lot of industry leaders in technology in the construction field, so it's great to see what everyone else is doing.

Eurovia UK (Delegate)