Fugro

This category is open to any geotechnical company that can show excellence in the way it has used digital technology to improve systems, performance, processes or project delivery within its own business between January 2022 and January 2023. Entries in this category should focus on business-wide innovations and, where applicable, be used on multiple projects. Project-specific innovations should be entered in the Technical Excellence category. Entries could focus on a particular digital innovation - such as an initiative to improve safety, employment practices, collaboration or delivery - or present how digital innovation is fostered and encouraged across the business and the benefits this is driving. The innovation could be site or office based, and entrants should present clear evidence of how the innovation has delivered performance, cost, health and safety or reliability improvements for the business and how this benefits both clients and society.

Virgeo digital solution

Access to on-demand results is critical to project success, allowing stakeholders to reduce site characterisation uncertainty faster, thus planning better development and managing assets more wisely. Fugro’s Virgeo® digital solution, an innovative cloud-based Geo-data engagement platform, delivers early insights which allows project stakeholders earlier access to and easier interrogation of large volumes of acquired, analysed, and integrated geo-data throughout the project life cycle. With fast access to ongoing acquisition programmes and the latest processed Geo-data, stakeholders gain an early understanding of any constraints to the development and can mitigate those impacts proactively within a single work season. The benefits of Fugro’s innovation Virgeo® technology are available for stakeholders across a range of projects in land, nearshore and offshore sites, saving time and money by identifying possible delays earlier in the development timeline, reducing excessive correspondence and allowing for simpler data access.