Many of us have been working from home for the past 2 years. The Pandemic has broken through cultural and technological barriers that prevented remote work in construction, expediting a structural shift that was already in motion in the past few years. The way we work, where we work, and how we work have changed irreversibly. It is the end of work as we know it.
Problem
1. A construction business’s greatest value lies in its people. However, Construction businesses have always struggled with demand instability when it comes to construction professionals during project lifecycles (Hire & Fire). Thus, construction businesses end up with project delays and cost overrun.
2. Construction Professionals globally have limitations to access suitable job opportunities due to their geographical location, cultural backgrounds, gender, physical disabilities, and/or motherhood status.
Solution
An agile workforce would be the solution to the talent problem in the construction business. In fact, a construction project demands agility above all. Access to an agile workforce means the possibility to scale teams up or down and fill skill gaps on-demand. Outsourcing specific tasks to freelancers is one of the key trends for 2022 because it improves productivity, business sustainability, and profitability.
CONSTAL is the leading marketplace for construction talents. We make hiring world-class construction Professionals easy, transparent, and agile – all for 50% of the price of a traditional firm. We are committed to connecting top construction industry talents with construction companies across the globe.
What differentiates us from freelance marketplaces:
– Niching down to the Construction industry,
– Business is managed by leaders of the construction industry (interdisciplinary and cross-continent)
– The talent pool is vetted and screened to have elite talents.
– Investing in upskilling of our talents
What differentiates us from traditional consultancy firms:
– Up to 50% cheaper
– Agile contracts
– Streamlined, instant and on-demand
– Transparent
CONSTAL is the future of work!
With comstruct, construction companies and their material suppliers can share all information via one channel. We help them gain an overview of the multitude of analog documents and individual portal- and EDI-solutions. Instead of creating additional isolated applications, comstruct transfers all information and documents directly into the existing systems where they are really needed – without individual negotiations and complex development projects.
With comstruct construction companies receive all delivery notes from their suppliers directly in their systems to facilitate processes such as reporting and invoice checking. comstruct also helps to utilize supplier data. For example, we can automate invoice checking by automatically comparing invoices and delivery notes, or create delivery data-based CO2 evaluations of construction projects. Using comstruct, construction companies can not only receive data but also send orders digitally to their suppliers and directly use all information of their BIM and planning software.
All suppliers in your pocket – CATHAGO is the app for the procurement of materials, tools and equipment. The construction site orders with just a few clicks in the mobile app and thus works more efficiently and transparently, while the office always keeps track of material flows and budgets on the construction sites. More time for the skilled workers on the construction site and in the office!
For procurement, suppliers from the CATHAGO network can be used, as well as the company’s own individual trading companies and suppliers can be integrated in the shortest possible time. Thanks to constantly updated price conditions, workflow management, delivery calendars and standardized, digital delivery bills, ordering materials has never been easier.
At the same time, our digital solution enables paperless procurement – from the requirements notification and order to the digital delivery bill and automated invoice verification. All information and documents are shared in real time with everyone involved in the process.
CATHAGO has won the PropTech Germany Award 2022 in the category “Construction”, is winner of APTI Award 2022, winner of Cemex Ventures Startup Competition, Top 5 in PropTech Innovation Award and is part of Plug & Play’s international Construction Accelerator.
One-stop shop for all building materials, with same-day delivery. We source, store and deliver your materials when you need them. Outsource your sourcing and reduce your fixed cost.
bobbie is the digital building materials trade. Contemporary, efficient and transparent!
Building materials procurement made simple! bobbie sees itself as a service provider for the construction site. We bring customer and manufacturer together in the most efficient way.
In addition to the classic services of the building materials trade (invoicing, logistics, matchmaking), we can also do all this digitally and cost-effectively with 15% better prices.
At our building materials counter, our e-commerce store bobbie.de, our customer can easily and intelligently filter, sort and order building materials from a constantly growing number of manufacturers – all prices (including freight!) and availabilities are available in real time.
In the tender business, it is possible for bobbie to process and price any tender format. It is important to us not to interrupt the digital data chain, but rather to support it and enrich it with valuable and relevant product information. We not only take care of the procurement of building materials, but also support you in your internal purchasing, calculation and controlling processes. Our service team is at hand for managing even the alrgest construction sites, all supported with digital tooling.
All our actions are completely transparent and based on a fixed margin concept. We do not take bonuses from our manufacturers and are not margin maximisers. We see ourselves as a service provider to the construction industry! That is what bobbie guarantees with its name!
Everything digital, everything efficient and especially honest!
Building drawings lack construction and/or detailed material information used for construction. Contractors employ many experienced and highly paid resources to develop complete list of Bill of Materials (BOM), procure material from 100s of different suppliers, and track 1000’s of order activities. This is a cripplingly manual and error-prone process that leads to costly mistakes and over ordering. On a typical construction project, 15% of material is wasted and additionally up to 20% of project’s labor cost can be consumed for handling material. That is a trillion dollars ($1T) wasted annually globally.
AECInspire is an easy-to-use SaaS application that digitize all the steps of project’s material procurement and management lifecycle. Its patent pending powerful rules-based AI-ready BOM Engine not only auto generates accurate, comprehensive Bill of Material (BOM) with specific emphasis on identifying prefab opportunities and link them with national material and prefab suppliers. With industry facing acute skilled labor shortage and pricing volatility from supply chain disruptions, AECInspire’s platform delights its customers with benefits of 95% reduction in material waste and 90% increase material handling labor productivity.
WtEnergy was established in 2017 by founder and CEO Andrés Ponce, a world expert in Advanced Thermochemical Conversion Processes (ATCP) with over 20 years in the sectors and experience leading the development of 5 major commercial projects in Switzerland, Spain and Portugal.
It is created with the aim of reducing the environmental impact derived from energy consumption in the industry, using advanced thermochemical conversion technologies for the substitution of fossil fuels in direct thermal applications.
WTEnergy has developed a unique cleantech technology, with a wide know-how and large number of projects behind it, impossible to find in the gasification and waste to energy market.
The gasification technology developed by WtEnergy has been commercially proven in several industrial contexts for both power and heat applications, processing a range of feedstock, including biomass and meat and bone meal (MBM).
WtEnergy a team of engineers and business experts based in Barcelona with an outstanding track record in advanced thermochemical conversion processes, developed a technology to tackle this challenge: an advanced method of using waste to fire the kilns. So far, waste can only be utilized to a certain extent since its usage produces chlorine, jeopardizing the functioning of the kilns. Leveraging a unique and patented pending technology, we transform waste to syngas, clean it from most of the chlorine and can therefore significantly increase the applicable amount of waste for firing cement kilns.
WtEnergy is based in Barcelona and currently made up from a team of engineers and business experts, supported by a network of advisors and consultants from across R&D environment.
Vizcab offers Saas solutions to Developers, Architects and Engineers and Manufacturing companies to measure embodied carbon emissions in Life Cycle Analyses for any kind of building project, at any design stages. All stakeholders in a project can easily collaborate, leverage on AI and automation to speed up the process and increase reliability. Vizcab is certified / recognized for BREEAM and french regulation RE2020 and certification E+C-, BBCA, HQE.
MAA’VA™ is developing next generation of green building materials that can functionally replace concrete by incorporating plastic waste, carbon sequestration and upcycling of manufacturing waste, advancing solutions to river sand shortage, water scarcity, climate change, waste crisis and rapid urbanization.