Category: Business Development
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Maria 01 Aims to Be Europe’s Largest Startup Campus
Mikko Kuusakoski, Head of Data and Analytics at YIT, talks about Maria 01, a development project in Helsinki that will boost the European startup ecosystem. Maria is an old hospital block that in 2016 was turned into a startup campus. Today, it houses over 100 startups and has 1,100 members. In 2018, the members raised…
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Interviews from WDBE 2019 – AEC Business
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From Duct Taping to Reinventing Construction – an Interview with Steve Holzer
Construction tech is hot. The question is: Are the dollars are invested in contech reinventing the industry or are they merely adding patches to outdated processes? Steve Holzer, an industry expert and Product Evangelist at BIMobject, shares his views in this interview. Steve Holzer’s LinkedIn profile details industry experience that starts from 1976 when he…
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AEC Business Partnering with Chicago Build
AEC Business in partnering with Chicago Build, the leading construction show for Chicago and the Midwest. Part of the internationally renowned global Build series in New York, London, Sydney, Glasgow and Auckland, Chicago Build 2019 (September 19-20) features 200+ speakers across 12 conference tracks (including Government Contracts & Policy, Sustainability, Real Estate, Architecture, BIM &…
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Fifth Wall Closes New $503 Million Fund, the Largest Real Estate Venture Capital Fund Raised to Date
With over $1 billion assets under management and more than 50 corporate strategic investors spanning 11 countries, Fifth Wall has assembled the largest consortium of real estate owners to invest in cutting edge startups and transform the global real estate industry. On July 17, 2019, Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies…
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Microsoft Urges the Construction Industry to Deliver Lifecycle Value
Digitalization is changing the way that we operate and use buildings. Salla Palos is directing Microsoft towards a future that inspires innovative changes in both the mindset and the business models of AECO industry stakeholders. Salla Palos moved from Finland to the United States in July 2015 and settled down in Seattle, one of the…
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Future-Ready: Global Construction Survey 2019
The Global Construction Survey 2019 by KPMG benchmarks how prepared companies are for a highly competitive and unpredictable future. The survey has been running annually since 2005. It features the perspectives of senior executives from 223 engineering & construction companies and project owners from a variety of industries. The Future-Ready Index is based upon their…
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PropTech Finland Steps Up – AEC Business
The previously informal network of Finnish proptech activists has now become a formalized community. The launch of PropTech Finland took place at KPMG’s Helsinki office on April 24, 2019. PropTech Finland’s mission is to unite the Finnish built environment startup community, to start and scale up businesses, and to integrate them into the global proptech…
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Real Estate and Construction Ecosystem in the Making: From KIRA-digi to KIRAHub
The Finnish Ministry of the Environment’s recent key project KIRA-digi was set up to promote digitalization of the built environment and construction. Although the project came to an end in December 2018, the work carried out in KIRA-digi will continue under the brand of KIRAHub. In a recent seminar, the lessons learned and future outlooks…
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The Law Clinic Paves Way to the Digitalization of Built Environment Processes
The Law Clinic offers legal advice on digitalization to built environment innovators and experimenters and in the process helps lawmakers find the pain points in legislation. In April 2018 the Finnish Ministry of the Environment launched an experimental legal service for real estate and construction professionals, municipalities, and lawmakers. The cost-free service is like a…