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Academic & Research Award

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This award recognizes a Building Transformations member, whether a student, group of students, academic institution, individual researcher, or research organization, who has completed significant academic or research work within the last 12 months aimed at advancing the building and infrastructure industry. Eligible submissions must be based on an academic capstone, thesis project, or formal research initiative and demonstrate meaningful contributions to innovation through the application of digital technologies and processes. The award celebrates forward-thinking solutions that push the boundaries of digital transformation in the built environment.

This Year's Nominees

Nominee
2026

PhD dissertation: Deblackboxing the Architect’s Toolbox: Open-Source Toolmaking for Architects Beyond Proprietary Software and Closed File Formats

Nicolás Arellano Risopatrón
Nominee
2026

Integration of BIM, BEM and robotic fabrication for sustainable design and manufacturing of free‑form building façade panels

NRC and ETS
Nominee
2026

CDT Plugin System: Adding Functionality to a Operational Open-Source Digital Twin Platform

CIMS
Nominee
2026

OpenBIM-LCCA: An Interoperable Platform for Whole-Life Cost and Carbon Decisions

NRC
Nominee
2026

Less Searching, More Building: AI-Assisted Information Extraction from Construction Documents

Reihaneh Pouyan

All-time Winners

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Winner
2025

Roadmap to Transform the Canadian Construction Industry

University of New Brunswick's Off-site Construction Research Centre (OCRC)
Winner
2024

Canada's Digital Twin

Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS)
Winner
2024

Clash Avoidance and Improved Model Quality with Rule-based Expert System

École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
Winner
2023

OpenBIM Web App for Decarbonizing Built Environment

National Research Council Canada
Winner
2023

Neural Search for Intuitive BIM Data Query

École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
Winner
2022

An Integrated Design-to-Manufacturing Approach in Construction

École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
Winner
2021

Smart Data Collection Using Spot and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Pomerleau
Winner
2021

Autonomous Robotic Data Collection Integrated with BIM & GIS

École de technologie supérieure (ETS)
Winner
2020

Carleton Digital Campus

Carleton Immersive Media Studio
Winner
2019

Scanning and Mapping of Chester Le Community Housing

George Brown College, CCET
Winner
2018

Library of Parliament

Carleton Immersive Media Studio
Winner
2017

BIM Assisted Design Process Automation for Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEB)

Dr. Mohammad Delavar

All-time Nominees

Nominee
2020

Parametric BIM File For Bridge Design and Analysis

Alexis Girardet, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Nominee
2020

Automated Methods for FM-BIM Quality Improvement

Romain Leygonie, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Nominee
2020

Automated Checking of Code Compliance in Solibri

Algonquin College
Nominee
2020

Automated 5D Costing in Bexel Cost Manager

Algonquin College
Nominee
2019

BIM-based automated code checking

Kristina Kincelova, ETS
Nominee
2018

Practical Evaluation of BIM Integrated Project Delivery Method (IPD)

Fanshawe College
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