Hyundai E&C won at the "Smart Construction Challenge" (Smart Construction Challenge) for the fifth straight year.
Hyundai E&C said on the 7th that it swept a total of three awards at the 2025 Smart Construction Challenge awards ceremony held on the 5th at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, winning the top innovation award in the BIM (building information modeling) and railway categories and the innovation award in the complex and dwellings category.
Since taking the top innovation award and the innovation award in 2021 for Robotics technology and BIM-utilization software development, Hyundai E&C has collected 12 awards over five years.
Marking its fifth year, the Smart Construction Challenge is Korea's leading construction technology competition hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Construction Companionship Committee to promote and spread smart construction technologies. It gives awards across five categories: ▲BIM ▲railway ▲complex and dwellings ▲road ▲safety management. This year, some winning technologies were also exhibited at the awards ceremony and winners' presentation held alongside the "2025 Smart Construction, Safety and AI Expo."
Hyundai E&C won the top innovation award in the BIM category for its "AI-driven Pre-con automation" technology, which links preconstruction data at the design stage to refine schedules and quantities.
Proposed through a consortium with ITM Architects, BeamsOnTop Engineering and Gachon University, this technology was recognized for efficiency in construction optimization, shortened work time and risk minimization. In particular, safety management technologies based on Virtual Reality (VR)–driven risk reviews and a Common Data Environment (CDE) that lets multiple workers share construction status and collaborate received high marks from the judges.
The "AI smart safety system," which won the top innovation award in the railway category, is a safety management platform jointly submitted by Hyundai E&C with Innonet and IVS, centered on TVWS (TV White Space, a technology that enables communications using idle TV frequency bands) that Hyundai E&C was the first in the industry to introduce at an underground tunnel site in 2021.
Hyundai E&C has continually applied this wireless communications infrastructure to railway-related tunnel sites in Korea and overseas, including the Gimpo extension of Incheon Metro Line 1, the NEOM running tunnel in Saudi Arabia, and the Wolgot–Pangyo double-track railway, and has advanced the system. In particular, the real-time integration of AI video recognition and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors effectively prevents safety accidents at underground sites and helped win the award by presenting smart safety technology that prepares for the coming era of underground railways.
The "construction site material transport robot" technology, which won the innovation award in the complex and dwellings category in collaboration with Samsung C&T, is an Autonomous Driving robot developed to automate the transport of various materials at construction sites.
The robot applies SLAM technology, which recognizes the surrounding environment to create maps and localize itself. Optimized for construction sites, the robot mechanizes material transport tasks and separates worker and material movement paths, providing work efficiency and safety accident prevention.
A Hyundai E&C official said, "With this award, Hyundai E&C's advanced smart construction technologies, verified over the past 10-plus years through demonstrations at sites in Korea and abroad, have been recognized," and added, "We will continue to develop safe and efficient systems that combine cutting-edge digital technologies and consider on-site workers, and do our utmost to advance and enhance the competitiveness of K-construction."