Celebrating nine stellar individuals whose leadership and ideas are helping build a safer construction industry.
Now in its fourth year, the HammerTech Community Awards recognize outstanding contributions to safety, innovation, and industry leadership. This year, we’re celebrating nine winners across Australia and New Zealand, North America, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Their achievements range from supporting crews through everyday challenges to leading improvements across entire businesses. Each brings a distinct contribution to our community and a shared determination to help others work more safely.
Now, it’s time to meet the 2026 HammerTech Community Award winners.
Drum roll please…
Safety Ambassador Award Winners
Recognizing people who lead by example and help project teams and subcontractors make safety a shared, everyday responsibility.
Australia and New Zealand
Liam punches well above his weight when it comes to safety. He brings energy and ingenuity to crucial conversations that shape the day’s work. Liam applies enterprising methods to pre-starts and toolbox talks, so subcontractors understand the planned work and high-risk tasks. The result: getting everyone actively involved in safety.
He follows those conversations with action, using HammerTech to address observations, document progress, and installations throughout projects. Liam’s deep commitment is helping lift safety standards beyond the immediate jobsite and into the culture of the site team and subcontractors.
In short, Liam’s influence comes from leading from the front and following through.
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North America
Marty sets teams up for success by showing up for them. He visits jobsites, answers questions, and provides the hands-on support that helps field teams and subcontractors put safety plans into practice with confidence.
Marty led the rollout and adoption of HammerTech across numerous Ryan Companies projects and mission-critical sites nationwide, developing training, resources, and workflows that support daily safety planning. At a company whose work includes data center projects where teams manage 100+ permits per week, Marty's patient and collaborative approach helps people build confidence in the safety processes they use every day.
By gathering feedback and using data from the platform to guide improvements, Marty keeps that work moving forward. His patience and willingness to help others succeed make him an outstanding example of safety leadership in practice.
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UK & Ireland
Gabriela is helping teams across Collen feel confident using HammerTech to support safety on their sites. Her work across projects and regions, particularly in Sweden, enables teams to share safety information and bring greater consistency to the way they manage safety every day.
She also brings detailed technical knowledge, introducing reporting dashboards and custom sections to support Collen’s safety practices. She combines reliable support and practical expertise to help drive engagement across regions, making her a central point of support for colleagues and a deserving Safety Ambassador.
Technology Excellence Award Winners
Recognizing people who make safety technology a practical part of how their businesses work, championing improvements and helping teams put innovation into use.
Australia and New Zealand
Danica has made site teams active contributors to how safety technology develops at BADGE Constructions. Her leadership of BADGE’s HammerTech implementation encouraged people to share ideas, drive improvements, and find opportunities to work more efficiently.
As the platform owner, Danica has continuously enhanced the system while partnering with internal IT teams to deliver meaningful integrations across BADGE's technology landscape. Her contribution keeps innovation grounded in the experience of the people using it. Danica’s passion for innovation, commitment to users, and focus on practical outcomes make her a standout recipient of the Technology Excellence Award.
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North America
Brian brought Gilbane’s technology, safety, and operations teams together with the HammerTech team to shape the rollout, ensuring people across the business had a voice in how the program developed.
He supported that collaboration with clear communication about goals and next steps, keeping the different teams involved as the work progressed. Brian’s recognition reflects the leadership behind an inclusive approach to implementation, bringing different perspectives into the decisions that shape how technology works across the business.
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UK & Ireland
Ray oversees digital functions across John Paul Construction’s project portfolio, exceeding €850 million annually. With over 20 years of manufacturing and construction technology experience, Ray has a proven track record of establishing digital governance standards and building the foundations for consistent technology adoption at scale.
As Head of Digital Construction, Ray brings a practical, considered approach to advancing safety technology through HammerTech. His work spans HammerTech–Procore integrations, site access reporting, and collaboration on Power BI dashboards that bring safety information into clearer view. By connecting enterprise strategy with everyday challenges, Ray helps shape how digital tools can better support safety teams across the business, making him a deserving winner of the Construction Safety Technology Excellence Award.
Safety Visionary Award Winners
Recognizing leaders whose ideas and influence advance safety within their organizations and the wider industry, bringing people together to make meaningful change.
Australia and New Zealand
Lex has been instrumental in driving safety innovation across Built Environs and the broader construction industry. Since leading the rollout of HammerTech in 2021, he has worked closely with the team to turn ideas into practical improvements on site. That commitment to safer construction is reflected in Built Environs’ projects, including Bundha Sports Center, where the team recorded 226,000+ working hours with zero lost-time injuries.
His influence stretches into industry working groups, where he contributes to advancing construction safety and sharing best practices. Through his leadership and commitment to safety excellence, he successfully guided the transition of parent company McConnell Dowell onto HammerTech, creating a single source of truth for safety performance across both businesses. Lex’s passion for innovation, collaborative approach, and dedication to raising safety standards make him a standout recipient of the Safety Visionary Award.
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North America
Sarah uses her position at the client level to influence positive change across several general contractors. She has introduced a focus on high-risk work across all Digital Realty’s North American projects, extending her contribution across multiple project teams.
She also stays actively involved in the industry, exploring new safety philosophies and practices to understand which approaches can improve safety as a whole. Sarah’s recognition reflects the combination of influence and curiosity, using her role to encourage progress while continuing to learn from the industry around her.
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UK & Ireland
Colm brought health and safety teams together with site teams for the company’s HammerTech rollout across the UK and Ireland, enabling teams across more than 25 Bennett Construction projects to use the platform within just four months.
Behind that achievement was a collaborative approach, clear direction, and a commitment to empowering colleagues. Colm helped people across both regions take an active role in the change, creating a shared effort around an ambitious goal. His leadership shows how involving teams in the work can give meaningful improvements momentum across a business.
A community worth celebrating
Congratulations to our 2026 winners and the teams working alongside them! Your achievements provide the HammerTech Community with meaningful examples of what better safety leadership looks like in practice.
To everyone sharing an idea, supporting a colleague, or helping a better way of working take hold: thank you! That generosity is what makes this a community, and it is helping construction move forward safely together.