Colin Bell

Colin is Head of Digital Construction at Kier Construction responsible for leading and implementing Kier’s Digital by Default strategy embedding a digital first culture. He oversees the digital construction, information management and business systems teams across the UK, ensuring that Kier Construction adopt the best digital tools and processes to deliver standardised and consistent measurable outputs and that data is optimised to continuously learn and improve. Colin provides business-wide support relative to BIM and information management, digital training, role-based competency, data reporting and digital dashboards. He keeps up to date with industry best practice and innovative solutions as well as future digital opportunities which supports people and process, data and information excellence and digitally enabling projects. Working in the industry for over 20 years, and with a strong academic and operational background, Colin has worked on some iconic projects across multiple sectors around the world including the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Qatar. This experience has afforded him significant opportunity to develop an authentic and approachable reputation built on a strong work ethic, clear communication style and excellent people-management skills. A member of the Nima Affiliates Leadership team and active Women in BIM mentor, Colin’s aspiration is to bring the construction industry back to the fore. He believes careers in the industry have never been more diverse and exciting and that it is one of the most unique industries to work in due to the changing status quo of people, skills, technologies, projects, and opportunities.