BMA receives industry recognition for transformative collaboration.

BMA has been named as a finalist in two categories of the prestigious industry awards, Utility Week 2024. The awards recognise our collaborative approach to solving complex challenges across the utilities sector. Both nominations reflect our commitment to working hand-in-hand with clients to deliver transformative outcomes - from strengthening infrastructure resilience to advancing the Net Zero energy transition.

The recognition spans our work with Yorkshire Water, where we challenged traditional engineering approaches to enhance organisational resilience, and our strategic collaboration with Northern Gas Networks to enable cost-effective pathways to Net Zero by 2050. These nominations demonstrate how working closely with forward-thinking utility companies can drive meaningful innovation across the sector.

These nominations validate what sits at the heart of BMA's approach: that the most innovative solutions emerge when we combine diverse expertise and perspectives to tackle our clients' most pressing challenges.

Innovation Award

BMA has been recognised for measurable progress in transforming the water sector through digital innovation and data-driven insights. Together with leading UK water company, Yorkshire Water, our digitalisation initiative, "Whole systems adaptive planning: Going beyond traditional asset investment planning with AI-assisted network design and resilience" has been recognised for an Innovation Award in the Water sector.  

BMA supported Yorkshire Water's goal to adopt digital whole systems adaptive planning capabilities, complementing traditional engineering approaches by allowing comprehensive operational risk evaluation across its water supply network. BMA implemented the Decisio™ platform, specifically the Water Systems Digital Business Twin, to leverage AI and identify optimal mitigation options during disruptions at critical water supply facilities to ensure continuity of service. The platform was extended to generate optimal network designs and identify long-term investments, considering changing externalities and regulatory context. This enhanced Yorkshire Water's systemic understanding of its network and provided access to optimal investment decisions, driving AMP outperformance.

Collaborative Excellence Award

BMA has been recognised for taking world-class approaches to integrated working between supply chain partners and the role this plays in delivering resilient and efficient lifeline services. Achieving a cost-effective transition to a Net Zero nergy system by 2050 will require extensive collaboration between stakeholders across the energy value chain, from government, to regulators, to system operators, to supply chain participants, and to the investors.

Collaboration only happens however if stakeholders can coalesce around a shared pathway view where the data, assumptions, dependencies, trade-offs, and ultimate recommendations are sufficiently detailed, complete, and believable. BMA demonstrated that by taking a whole system evidence-based approach and leveraging the right technologies to ensure complex modelling is accessible and understandable to a range of stakeholders, effective collaboration is achievable.