IN Brief:
- Bouygues UK is using Revizto BIM technology on the Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health.
- Clinicians are reviewing operating theatres, medical gas outlets, and patient routes through live 3D models.
- The project brings clinical users, contractors, and designers into a shared digital coordination environment.
Bouygues UK is using BIM technology to bring clinicians into the design review process on the Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health in London.
The contractor is using Revizto to give healthcare specialists access to a live, fully navigable 3D model of the new centre before construction reaches key clinical areas. Clinicians can review operating theatre layouts, medical gas outlet positions, patient flows, and other space-critical design decisions while the project is still being coordinated.
The £300m scheme in Camden will bring together Moorfields Eye Hospital, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and Moorfields Eye Charity in a new eye care, research, and education centre. The building is due to welcome its first patients in summer 2027 and will include highly technical space across operating theatres, blackout rooms, research laboratories, and a dedicated emergency department.
Revizto says the platform has reduced clash-detection review time on the project from around a week to 10–15 minutes in some instances. The scheme spans 47,000 sq m and involves more than 100 daily onsite users and contractors across 20 disciplines, making design coordination a central part of delivery rather than a back-office process.
Healthcare construction is especially sensitive to late design change. Small decisions around room layout, access, equipment zones, ventilation, lighting, wayfinding, gas outlets, storage, and maintenance clearances can influence clinical safety and operational efficiency after handover. A drawing can record those decisions, but a navigable model allows the people who will use the building to test them before the construction programme removes flexibility.
The same issue is becoming more prominent across complex construction. Revizto’s recent research on data ownership and AI readiness underlined how construction technology is increasingly judged by the quality, control, and usability of project information. A model that sits outside decision-making has limited value. A model used by clinicians, contractors, designers, and delivery teams becomes part of the project’s operating system.
For Bouygues UK, the Moorfields approach also supports a wider move towards early stakeholder validation. Main contractors on healthcare schemes now face pressure to reduce rework, improve evidence trails, coordinate specialist packages earlier, and support building safety and operational handover requirements. Digital coordination platforms are becoming the place where those pressures meet.
The project’s complexity gives the method a practical test. Healthcare buildings combine dense M&E systems, strict environmental performance requirements, infection-control considerations, constrained logistics, and long-term operational needs. When coordination fails, the cost can emerge through rework, delayed commissioning, compromised maintainability, or spaces that technically comply but function poorly in use.
BIM workflows cannot remove all of that risk, but they can make it visible earlier. By allowing clinicians to walk through future workspaces, challenge layouts, and resolve issues with project teams while there is still room to adapt, the Moorfields scheme is using digital modelling as a delivery tool rather than a presentation layer.
As public and specialist buildings become more technically demanding, this kind of user-led model review is likely to become more common. Complex schemes need more than accurate design information; they need shared environments where that information can be tested by the people who will depend on it once the contractor leaves site.
