Tag: Competition
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The Construction Startup Competition – An Interview with Ibon Iribar
The Construction Startup Competition 2022 allowed innovative teams from around the globe to showcase their solutions to leading industry developers and investors. I sat down with Ibon Iribar of CEMEX Ventures to discuss the competition and its value to the industry. Ibon Iribar is an investment and open innovation advisor at CEMEX Ventures. The company organized the…
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Matterport to Showcase Digital Twin Solutions at its Space Jam Competition
Matterport, the spatial data company, will host the next installment of the Matterport Space Jam virtual event series on February 24, 2022, at 8:30 am PT. The event features four of its platform partners that are building software solutions on top of Matterport’s digital twins for the AEC industry. During the event, each platform partner…
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Document Crunch Won the Biggest Construction Industry Startup Competition
CEMEX Ventures, together with Dysruptek, Ferrovial, GS Futures, Hilti, VINCI Group’s Leonard and NOVA by Saint-Gobain, have announced the ten winners of the Construction Startup Competition 2021. Document Crunch, an AI-powered software to identify and explain critical issues in construction contracts, was chosen as the gold medalist of the 2021 edition. The Pitchday took place…
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The Urban Adaptation Competition Aims at Flexibility with Modular Wood Construction
Buildings are static. They serve the purpose they have been designed for. But when cities grow and the needs of the community change, this becomes a problem. Modular construction with engineered wood products like Kerto LVL are the solution, because they enable adaptable, sustainable, and cost-competitive designs. It is time to provide solutions to the…
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CEMEX Ventures on Their Bet on Startups and the Fourth Edition of Construction Startup Competition
With Construction Startup Competition 2020, CEMEX Ventures exposes the need to find solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges, promoting startups and the integration of new business models. CEMEX Ventures, CEMEX´s open innovation arm and Corporate Venture Capital has one goal: to foster the construction revolution. This implies promoting innovation, the use of new technologies…
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Five Industry Leaders Launch 2020 Construction Startup Competition
CEMEX Ventures, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group’s Leonard, and NOVA by Saint-Gobain launch the 2020 Construction Startup Competition, seeking entrepreneurs and startups to drive innovation in the construction industry. The call will be open to participants from around the world from May 19 through July 26. CEMEX’s Corporate Venture Capital Unit, announced today the launch of…
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Five Industry Leaders Launch 2020 Construction Startup Competition
CEMEX Ventures, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group’s Leonard, and NOVA by Saint-Gobain launch the 2020 Construction Startup Competition, seeking entrepreneurs and startups to drive innovation in the construction industry. The call will be open to participants from around the world from May 19 through July 26. CEMEX’s Corporate Venture Capital Unit, announced today the launch of…
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The 10 Winners of CEMEX Ventures’ Construction Startup Competition 2019
CEMEX Ventures celebrated its Pitch Day, an event at which the 10 winners of the Construction Startup Competition 2019 presented their solutions to a jury of experts in construction, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The global challenge doubled its participation compared to the 2018 competition. It seeks new business models that work in the six priority opportunity…
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An International Ideas Competition in a Magnificent Finnish Lakeside City
An international ideas competition started off on 15 May 2019 in Viinikanlahti, a highly exciting area close to Tampere city center. Competitors get to design a housing area of over 3,000 residents on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi, as well as a leisure time environment for the locals and tourists. With a population of roughly…
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Housing Solutions for Asylum Seekers: Competition Winners
An architectural competition titled From Border to Home was set out to find temporary housing solutions for the unprecedented flood of asylum seekers coming to Finland. The Museum of Finnish Architecture organized the competition in collaboration with the Finnish Association of Architects SAFA from October 19 to November 30, 2015. From Border to Home received…