{"id":25337,"date":"2024-03-25T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/five-industry-leaders-launch-2020-construction-startup-competition\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T07:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:49:58","slug":"five-industry-leaders-launch-2020-construction-startup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/five-industry-leaders-launch-2020-construction-startup-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Industry Leaders Launch 2020 Construction Startup Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>CEMEX Ventures, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group\u2019s 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"more-1010998\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CEMEX\u2019s Corporate Venture Capital Unit, announced today the launch of the 2020 Construction Startup Competition. After the tremendous growth of its previous editions, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group\u2019s Leonard, and NOVA by Saint- Gobain joined the competition with the objective of identifying and fostering startups to lead the transformation of the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>Under the slogan \u201cYou are the missing piece,\u201d the five key industry players invite all entrepreneurs worldwide with innovative construction solutions to participate in this year\u2019s edition by submitting their projects from May 19 through July 26, 2020. The winners will be evaluated on five areas of opportunity within the industry\u2014from smart cities and buildings to optimization of supply chain management, construction with innovative materials or methods, and optimization of productivity, efficiency, and quality in daily project management, among others.<\/p>\n<p>CEMEX Ventures, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group\u2019s Leonard, and NOVA by Saint-Gobain come together for the 2020 Construction Startup Competition to add their weight behind startups breaking the paradigm of one of the least digitized and most fragmented industries. They will join their expertise and resources to boost startups with their knowledge of infrastructure, materials, and equipment, among other disciplines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/03\/CEMEX-competition.jpg\" alt=\"Construction Startup Competititon\" class=\"wp-image-1011001 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/03\/CEMEX-competition.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CEMEX-competition-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CEMEX-competition-990x495.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Those interested in participating can apply through <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cemexventures.com\/startup-competition-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">CEMEX Ventures\u2019 webpage<\/a>. Once the five host companies have evaluated all of the proposals, they will engage the most promising startups with a further set of opportunities, from workshops to pilots or investments. In this fourth edition of the Construction Startup Competition, the winning startups will be invited to Chicago, US, to present their solutions to an audience composed of global leaders in innovation, investment, and construction, tentatively on December 2-3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The global presence of the five host corporations allows startups from anywhere in the world to participate in the competition, giving them the opportunity to scale and expand their business to new geographic markets. The position these five leaders occupy within the construction value chain provides the participants with wide visibility of the challenges that the industry faces, as well as access to an active portfolio of important contacts. These factors help build connections to new investors and companies focused on innovation. Moreover, the competition offers participants the possibility of testing and implementing their solutions with any of the five host companies.<\/p>\n<p>The great growth of past editions\u2014where the number of applicants skyrocketed from year to year\u2014helped to develop an ecosystem of over a thousand startups from over 80 countries focused on the construction industry. The 2020 Construction Startup Competition aims to complete a vision of new emerging solutions in the industry, facilitate an efficient review of investment opportunities, and create a community of players committed to solving the industry\u2019s challenges from an innovative, technological, and sustainable point of view.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding the 2020 Construction Startup Competition, please visit <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cemexventures.com\/startup-competition-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cemexventures.com\/startup-competition-2020\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: CEMEX Ventures, Madrid, May 19, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/five-industry-leaders-launch-2020-construction-startup-competition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEMEX Ventures, Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group\u2019s Leonard, and NOVA by Saint-Gobain launch the 2020 Construction Startup Competition, seeking entrepreneurs and &#8230; <a title=\"Five Industry Leaders Launch 2020 Construction Startup Competition\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/five-industry-leaders-launch-2020-construction-startup-competition\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Five Industry Leaders Launch 2020 Construction Startup Competition\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aec-business","category-all-posts","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}