Startup of the Year
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Construction Technology Awards 2023 announces Startup of the Year shortlist
The Construction Technology Awards is the region's only dedicated ConTech awards.
The Startup of the Year award recognizes the most promising startups in the built environment industry that demonstrate exceptional potential to transform the industry. This award category is specifically designed for startups that are four years old or younger and have innovative technology, products, services, or smart materials relevant to the built environment. Entrants should provide a convincing business plan, go-to-market strategy, product market fit, innovation, traction, scalability, and benefit realisation.?
These are the contenders for Startup of the Year:
ConcR
Entered by: ConcR | Smart Monitoring
Since the Roman’s invented concrete, it has been a mixture of water, cement and aggregates. Now we put ConcR into the mix and we make concrete smart by connecting and digitalising it, thus allowing contractors to use it faster, reduce their costs and build a safer modern world.
ConcR is participating in this years CTF Awards to introduce their technology in new regions, gain new strategic partners to build new IoT solutions for the construction industry and work on increasing the general awareness for IoT deployments in construction.
OMRAN TECH
Entered by: Omran Tech
Omran Tech provides services in design, fabrication and erection for light steel structures. Light Steel Frame Building offer quality, cost efficiency and speed of erection for low-rise residential and non-residential buildings. It defines a Light Gauge Steel (LGS) Building System called Smart Building Solution.
LGS buildings are designed using specialist computer aided design engineering software and manufactured by rolling or pressing steel into semi-finished or finished goods at an ambient temperature. LGS is also known as Cold Foam Steel (CFS).
Omran Tech offers services that reduce the timeline of large-scale project.? This type of pre-engineering service will mean less time on site. Projects include petrol stations, offices, coffee shops, tiny or large movable Homes. Advantages include that it reduces waste, and that any waste remaining is considered as a green waste. Light steel is 100% recyclable and Saudi made.
Opteam Technologies
Entered by: Opteam
Opteam gives one project manager the power of 5,000 project managers. The innovation-based company uses Artificial Intelligence to automate the fast-tracking and resource allocation of construction projects in real-time. Users can shorten project timelines and reduce project costs by optimising and fast-tracking efforts at every stage of the project.
Oscar Limited
Entered by: Oscar Limited
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Oscar (Operational Supply-Chain Analytics and Resourcing) is a 3rd Party due diligence platform that helps contractors and real estate developers reduce their risks, increase their margins, and deliver work on time. A Software as a Service solution, Oscar helps procurement departments work with partners they can trust.
The Oscar platform assesses the performance of suppliers across topics such as worker welfare, equality and non-discrimination, governance, climate change and environment, sustainable development and business continuity.?
This allows clients to address their industry’s shift towards sustainable development in line with Net Zero 2050. Clients can make informed decisions on who to work with, reducing costs, increasing margins and managing their risks. The SaaS platform is the only one developed specifically for the MENA region, taking into account local culture, business practices and sensitivities.?
Procurified
Entered by: Procurified
Procurified is trying to change the construction industry by connecting buyers and sellers to solve everyday commercial problems that arise. The company was created to help solve the problem of countless hours being wasted when sending, receiving, and capturing bids for buyers. Procurified helps reduce time spent by up to 80%, as well as reducing the risk of human error when copy & pasting vendor prices from PDF to excel for commercial evaluation.?
Using AI & ML, Procurified helps to capture BOQs and vendor offers for easy commercial comparisons. With a modular-based approach, Procurified offers buyers an easy-to-use estimation tool with historic rates derived straight from their vendors’ bids and rates library. Cost intelligence enables cost managers and contractors to get higher cost certainty for their projects. The company gives managers peace of mind that the team is on top of their tenders with tracking, insights and dashboards. For sellers, Procurified enables them to develop relationships with new buyers as well as service existing buyers even better.
XD House
Entered by: XD House
XD House provides design solutions to a wide range of actors in the construction industry, including architects, engineers, and manufacturers. The design solutions are implemented to accommodate design changes, produce manufacturing cutlists, and provide installation documentation support.
Their team is specialised in BIM implementation services, through computational design associated with scripting and coding tools that adds a lot of flexibility and accuracy.?
The organisations approach follows international BIM standards and is driven by cutting-edge technology solutions that aims to serve the industry on a regional and international level. They look forward to writing success stories with regional & international stakeholders, and to incorporate their expertise based on the values they set within the most advanced international standards and beyond.
Souq acwme
Entered by Souq acwme
Souq acwme is a multi-seller online marketplace that sells building and construction materials transforming the market to technology. Souq acwme serves contractors, real estate developers & project owners by connecting them with building materials suppliers.
Customers can access a wide range of building materials and technical data related to the products. They can also request quotes in case of special requirements or large quantities to get the right competitive prices.
The founders of souq acwme have more than two decades of experience in the construction sector. Souq acwme is growing with distinguished stakeholders and investors who are backers and understand the expected market value.