AXA Engineers at Autodesk ASEAN Innovation Awards 2024: A Chapter in AXANH’s Technology Journey

In 2024, during the period when our organization operated as AXA Engineers, the team participated in the Autodesk ASEAN Innovation Awards with two engineering projects: Baptist Development and Marks Creek Development.

The projects were recognized among the leading entries in two Architecture, Engineering & Construction award categories: Innovator of the Year and Better World Builder of the Year.

Looking back from AXANH today, the value of that chapter extends beyond the award result itself. It formed part of a longer process of learning how technology, engineering workflows, collaboration, and capability development could reinforce one another over time.

The Autodesk ASEAN Innovation Awards 2024

The Autodesk ASEAN Innovation Awards bring together projects and organizations from across the region to highlight the use of technology and digital approaches in architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing.

For AXA Engineers, entering the 2024 awards created an opportunity to place two real engineering projects within that broader industry conversation and to reflect on how digital tools were being used alongside engineering workflows and team development.

The two submissions represented different aspects of that journey. Marks Creek Development was associated with the Innovator of the Year category, while Baptist Development was associated with Better World Builder of the Year.

Both projects were subsequently named among the top entries in their respective categories.

Why the experience mattered at the time

An award program can easily be reduced to a result or ranking. For the team, however, preparing these submissions also required something more practical: reviewing how the work was carried out, deciding what was worth communicating, and explaining the relationship between technology and the engineering process behind each project.

That distinction matters. Software adoption by itself says relatively little about engineering capability. What becomes more useful is understanding how technology supports a workflow: how information is developed, how teams coordinate, how work is reviewed, and how technical knowledge becomes repeatable rather than remaining with one individual.

The AAIA 2024 submissions provided another opportunity for AXA Engineers to examine those connections and communicate selected parts of the work in a wider professional setting.

Two projects, two different lenses

The two submissions gave the team different ways to consider how engineering work could be communicated through the award framework.

• Marks Creek Development — Innovator of the Year: the submission placed attention on the role of technology and working methods within the engineering process.
• Baptist Development — Better World Builder of the Year: the submission provided a different lens through which the project and its broader design considerations could be presented.

The recognition was meaningful, but it should be understood within its proper scope. It did not by itself establish a broader market position, certify AXA Engineers’ capabilities, or prove that one technology choice determined the success of either project.

What it did provide was an external setting in which the team’s work could be considered alongside other regional submissions — and an opportunity to reflect on the methods, collaboration, and technology practices behind that work.

What remained after the awards

Looking back, this is the part of the story that matters most.

The value of AAIA 2024 was not limited to visibility or recognition. The experience became part of a longer pattern in which technology was increasingly connected with capability assessment, structured learning, workflow development, and professional exchange.

That pattern had already begun before the awards. AXA Engineers had shared part of its Civil 3D development journey at Autodesk Converge Vietnam in 2023, and the organization continued participating in Autodesk-related professional conversations in 2024.

Over time, the question also became broader. Instead of asking only whether engineers could use a particular tool, the organization increasingly had to consider what makes that capability sustainable: recurring learning, review practices, shared standards, knowledge transfer, and the judgment required to use technology responsibly.

Those questions continue to shape AXANH’s approach today.

The journey since 2024

The AAIA chapter now sits within a wider Autodesk technology journey: from the Civil 3D story shared at Autodesk Converge Vietnam in 2023, to the Autodesk APAC discussion in 2024, continuing Civil 3D capability development, the participation of Autodesk and OneCAD representatives in AXANH’s 10-year milestone in 2026, and later learning around ISO 19650 and digital delivery. These are different activities with different purposes, but together they show how an early focus on software adoption gradually expanded into a broader conversation about engineering capability, standards, learning, and responsible technology use.

A grateful reflection

We remain grateful for the opportunities Autodesk and the wider professional community provided for our team during this period — to participate, to communicate what we were developing, and to learn from a broader industry conversation.

Looking back from where AXANH is today, AAIA 2024 is meaningful not simply because two projects received recognition. Its greater value is that it sits within a longer process of learning how engineering capability develops: through real work, careful reflection, repeated practice, professional exchange, and a willingness to keep improving the systems around the technology.

The name has changed from AXA Engineers to AXANH, but the useful parts of that earlier chapter continue forward: the experience gained, the questions raised, and the responsibility to turn technology into capability that remains within the organization.