Neil O'Reilly

Neil has over 30 continuous years of collaborative experience working within the AEC industry. He manages both corporate and project level BIM strategies, emerging trends, processes and technology advancements. His Leadership along with extensive knowledge of Change Management, Engineering Content, Interoperability, Compatibility and Co-ordination provide the very best solutions for delivering a range of major Civil and Structural project lifecycles.
Neil is Mott MacDonald’s BIM Operations Manager and Project Information Lead. He is currently acting as the Lead BIM Manager for Balfour Beatty Vinci and the Design Joint Venture working on behalf of HS2 challenging all processes within the architecture, engineering and construction industry. He is extremely passionate about BIM and has extensive knowledge in co-ordination, offering interoperability and compatibility to provide clients with the very best solutions for delivering Project Information Modelling throughout all the various processes.
Neil draws his wealth of experience from recent, similar, major projects that will realise value. He will use the most up to date standards, methods and procedures and will take best practice from similar projects, initially by holding a lesson’s learnt workshop at the start of the enabling works project. He will align standard modelling methods with the information requirements, improve Common Data Environments workflows along with specific modelling techniques and drawing creation for best practice.
Acting as a focal point of contact for all aspects of information delivery; Neil will develop a team of discipline information champions to ensure best practice is ingrained in all teams.
He will lead a team of suitably qualified and experienced individuals with the skills to support the management and co-ordination of project information by supporting discipline leads to ensure efficient design co-ordination between the packages of work.
Neil will assist in the development and administration of a common data environment in a way that is compliant with all industrial standards to ensure project resources all work in a consistent manner. It will also set out the permissions and approvals for Work in Progress, Internal Shared and External Shared (Published). In each case, controlled permissions and a workflow audit trail will be available to for all delivered information and for assurance purpose.
Current Projects under his management are High Speed Two Ltd Contracts, Phase 2b, Enabling Works South, Main Works Sectors N1/N2, CrossRail and Bank Station Bloomburg Project along with support to various ongoing tender bids.