Winners in 12 categories who excel in delivering efficiency gains for infrastructure planning, design, construction, and operations. 3D and 4D shine.

On October 16th, 2025, at the Year in Infrastructure – Going Digital Awards (YII) event gala, held in the iconic Okura Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands, winners were selected in 12 categories. Winners and finalists all represented innovation in key aspects of the digitalization of the AEC and infrastructure sectors. Winners are listed below with links to the projects.Amsterdam is an appropriate venue, with its 750-year history of infrastructure development, turning marshlands, through innovation and determination, into a hub of commerce and culture—truly one of the world’s great cities.

Key Takeaways

Many of the winning projects have leveraged 3D-Tiles for visualization in collaborative environments and context. Whether it was the use of Google Photorealistic 3D-Tiles or project-specific 3D-Tiles, the acquisition of Cesium in 2024 has borne fruit. With full 3D as the canvas, 3D design can be undertaken much more intuitively. At the event, it was announced that MicroStation will soon have 3D-Tile support. Such 3D-Tile applications, in whatever form they take, will likely fast become as common as using geospatially registered orthophotos became standard in CAD and design software decades ago.

4D project management, in the form of collaborative platforms (e.g., ProjectWise) is being leveraged on even the largest of projects. A prime example is the winner of the Project Delivery category: eGIS for the Nord Canal. While impressive in scale and scope, the project coordination of a 3D BIM model, shared and updated by a team of nearly 400, is even more impressive. This vital new 107km canal (the first major canal in France in over 6 decades) will provide a vital link for commerce. It includes complex design elements, including locks and canal crossing, a design process that began during the lockdowns, where remote collaboration and site visit reductions became a necessity. The value of working collaboratively in a common model and project management system online became so obvious to eGIS that at one point they instructed team members to cease using email for design updates, directing them to do so in ProjectWise.

Digital Twins, 4D project management, and rich 3D models (and Tiles) have proven to be a path forward to address global infrastructure gaps. What’s next? In subsequent articles, we’ll cover what we learned at the event with regard to the appropriate application of AI in design and construction.

YII 2025 Winners

Bridges and Tunnels: Italferr S.p.A. (Italy) – Leveraging Digital Technologies for Improved Infrastructure Management

Construction: Deloitte and Vale (Brazil) – SYNCHRO 4D Powering the World’s First Iron Ore Briquetting Plant

Energy Production: Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co., Ltd. (China) – Digital Intelligent Construction Project for a Steel Plant Based on Bentley Technology

Geospatial and Reality Modeling: Al Madinah Region Development Authority (MDA) (Saudi Arabia) – Manarah Urban Data Platform

Project Delivery: Egis (France)– Canal Seine Nord Europe

Rail and Transit: PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Indonesia) – Smart Infrastructure by KAI & AssetWise Linear Analytics

Roads and Highways: Jabatan Kerja Raya Sarawak (JKRS) (Malaysia)– Sarawak Sabah Link Road Phase 2

Structural Engineering: AVS Engineers | ISID Architect, Nikhil Mahashur and Associates, Structural Engineer – Siddharth Sharma (India) – Fairmont Udaipur Palace

Subsurface Modeling and Analysis: Fervo Energy (United States) – Cape Station

Transmission and Distribution: China Energy Engineering Group Guangxi Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. (China) – Application of GIS+BIM Digital Intelligence Technology to the Entire Lifecycle of China Southern Power Grid’s Guangxi Nanning 500kV Power Transmission and Transformation Project

Water and Wastewater:PT Wika Tirta Jaya Jatiluhur (WTJJ) (Indonesia) :– SPAM Regional Jatiluhur I: Transforming Water for a Better Tomorrow

Cities, Campuses, and Facilities: Voyants Solutions Private Ltd. (India) – Preparation of Masterplan, Detailed Design and Project Management of Atal Puram Township, Agra, India

Finalists made presentations at the event, before an audience of attendees and a panel of jurors, who selected winners. While the projects themselves are impressive, often from sheer scale and scope, what these awards focus on is the benefits realized by the digitalization of various aspects of the projects, through the use of modeling, visualization, analysis, project management, and collaboration.