In London, a new centre for eye care, research, and education is reshaping the delivery of complex healthcare infrastructure.
At Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health, due to open in 2027, clinicians and healthcare specialists are being given direct input into design decisions through immersive BIM workflows and real-time coordination – an approach that is reducing delays, improving decision-making, and setting a new benchmark for collaboration across the AECO industry.
Led by construction and property development company Bouygues UK in partnership with collaboration platform Revizto, clinicians can step inside a live, fully navigable 3D model of the new Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health – walking through operating theatres, assessing the positioning of medical gas outlets, and mapping patient flows through clinical spaces – months before construction reaches those areas.
Using BIM technology, the project has brought clinicians, engineers, and construction teams together in a shared digital environment, helping project teams resolve design issues, reduce errors, and minimise costly rework – with clash detection time reduced from a week to 10-15 minutes.
Spanning 47,000 square metres, and over 100 daily onsite users and contractors across 20 disciplines, the project involves the redevelopment of highly specialised environments ranging from operating theatres, blackout rooms and research laboratories to a dedicated Emergency Department.
Lewis Wenman, Lead BIM Manager at Bouygues UK said: “Traditionally, delivery specialists in different construction disciplines – whether that’s structural engineers, MEP contractors, or fire safety teams – are working from separate drawings and models, often shared weeks apart. Errors compound invisibly until they surface on site, where fixing them exponentially is more expensive. At Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health, with Revizto that fragmentation is being replaced with a single live environment, accessible to every team on the project. Design conflicts are being surfaced automatically, and issues are logged, tracked, owned and resolved in real-time. That’s the difference between weeks of back-and-forth and a 10-minute conversation.”
This represents a significant shift in how complex NHS infrastructure is being delivered across the UK. The project is being closely watched as a potential blueprint for complex public infrastructure builds in any industry, where multiple specialist disciplines, regulatory requirements, and end-user needs must be coordinated without error and in a digital environment.
Arman Gukyasan, Founder and CEO at Revizto, commented: “Construction has a rework problem – and it usually surfaces on site, once it’s too late. On a project like this, a late design change isn’t just a budget and coordination risk. It can cost public money and delay the essential facilities that patients are waiting for. When a surgeon can virtually walk through the space they’re going to work in, flag a problem, and see it resolved in minutes rather than weeks, that’s coordination working as it should. Not in a pilot, but on a live, mission-critical build at scale. That’s the benchmark we want to help the industry set.” The new Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health is expected to welcome its first patients in summer 2027. A partnership between Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and Moorfields Eye Charity the centre will relocate current services from Moorfields at City Road.
