Chippenham's Purpol Marketing takes Gold Stevie in construction technology awards

Chippenham marketing consultancy Purpol Marketing Ltd has won the Gold Stevie for Lifetime Achievement in the construction and civil engineering technology group of the 2026 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.

The award went to a nomination titled "Denise O'Leary MBE, Purpol Marketing: A Lifetime in Construction Bid and Marketing Technology", according to the Stevie Awards' category results. Purpol was the only UK entrant to take a Stevie in the group.

The same company also picked up a Bronze Stevie for Company of the Year in the awards' advertising, marketing and public relations technology categories, for a nomination on codifying winning expertise into artificial intelligence (AI).

Denise O'Leary MBE, founder and managing director of Purpol Marketing, said: "The best part of my job is helping businesses get the recognition they deserve."

The company

Purpol Marketing says it is owned by O'Leary, whom it describes as a board-level marketing director, and that she set the business up in 2014. The company says it specialises in business-to-business marketing within the construction and manufacturing sectors.

O'Leary has held Chartered Marketer accreditation since 2005 and was awarded the MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List, according to the company. She is also the author of the book "WINNER- How to Win Business Awards".

Companies House lists Purpol Marketing Limited as an active private limited company, number 08848733, registered at 6 Wicks Drive, Chippenham, Wiltshire, with its nature of business recorded under SIC code 82990, other business support service activities.

Purpol said the Paris ceremony also marked its fifth Grand Stevie Award and its first in The International Business Awards.

The other winners

Bentley Systems, of Exton, Pennsylvania, won the Gold Stevie for Technology Breakthrough of the Year for its MCP Servers. Bentley announced the win on 13 August 2026.

Bentley says the servers implement the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard and connect AI agents, including Claude and GitHub Copilot, directly to Bentley applications. MicroStation and STAAD.Pro are the first in a planned rollout of MCP servers across the company's full portfolio, it says.

Julien Moutte, chief technology officer at Bentley Systems, said: "Infrastructure engineering demands more than plausible answers. It requires accuracy, transparency, and control."

In the Company of the Year category, the Gold Stevie went to Payapps - An Autodesk Company, of Melbourne, Australia, for a nomination on construction progress payment claims, with the Silver going to EquipmentShare of Columbia, Missouri. Beck Technology, of Dallas, Texas, won Gold for New Product of the Year with DESTINI Cloud, which its nomination described as unifying preconstruction into a single source of truth.

The awards

This was the third annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. The organiser said the 2026 competition attracted more than 700 nominations from organisations in 37 nations and territories, judged over a two-month process by independent scoring.

Maggie Miller, president of the Stevie Awards, congratulated the winners when the results were announced on 23 July 2026.

The Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were presented at a ceremony on Wednesday 28 October 2026 at the Pullman Paris Montparnasse in Paris, according to the Stevie Awards and Purpol Marketing.