Everyday more than one thousand houses must be built to meet the demand for new homes for the growing worldwide population. The environment where we live in must evolve. Smart construction sites, smart buildings, and the infrastructures for our cities are needed now. This can shortly be realized only if innovative technologies are integrated to the construction and facility management process supported by Building Information Modeling (BIM). The full potential is still to be unlocked! Together with our partners Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Bau and BIM World MUNICH, we are calling all start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs from the software, hardware and non-connected fields to submit their solutions and services in 4 main categories: Planning |  Construction | Operations of building and infrastructure & Environment, and demonstrate how they are shaping the future of the industry, fostering our circular economy and making our territories smarter. Take part in the 7th Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® at no cost, and benefit from great prizes including:

• Access the global Innovation World Cup® Series network
• Present at the pitch & award ceremony at BIM World MUNICH 2024 – the leading platform in Europe for the digital transformation of the AEC industry
• Connect with the BIM World ecosystem featuring all major key-players and experts of the sector
• Boost your brand awareness through free marketing packages and extensive media coverage at a global level
• Benefit from an exclusive package to exhibit in the BIM Town, the innovation hotspot at BIM World MUNICH
• Be advised from international tech experts to advance your business development: finding the right components, go-to-market strategy, and commercial launch, to mention but a few
• Be included in the Innovation World Cup® and benefit from prizes worth +500,000 USD (for IoT and wearable solutions only)
• Free speaking slots and exhibition opportunities at international prominent tech events
• Get a place in the Hall of Fame (if selected as the winners)
• And many more!

Participation is free of charge.

Previous Smart Building / Smart Construction Winners

Sodex Innovations  – Winner 2023
Sodex Innovations is Austrian company offering “plug and play” high-tech products for the construction industry that help their customers to optimize their processes and save time as well as costs. Their exceptional solution earned them the first place in the 6th Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® at BIM World MUNICH 2023.

Carbon Limit – Winner 2022
Carbon Limit, a climate-tech company from USA convinced the jury in two pitching rounds and won the 5th Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® at BIM Wolrd Munich 2022. They are paving the way to a carbon-free future with a technology that allows concrete to capture CO2 pollution directly from the air we breathe and store it permanently, transforming our built environment into a carbon sink.

Treble Technologies – Winner 2021
In the finals of the 4th Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® at BIM World MUNICH, Treble Technologies brought the trophy home. The Icelandic start-up develops software solutions that revolutionize the way sound and acoustics are used in building design. Their products enable designers of the built environment to mitigate noise and design soundscapes through advanced simulations and ultra-realistic immersive audio-visual virtual renderings of buildings.

PURE Applikationen GmbH & Co.KG – Winner 2020
The Pitch & Award ceremony of the 3rd Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® took place at BIM Virtual powered by BIM World MUNICH and the winner was PURE Applikationen GmbH & Co.KG and their MR+MRS HOMES – 3D house configurator.

Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® 2019

bimspot – Winner 2019
The winner of the 2nd Smart Building / Smart Construction Pitch & Award Ceremony 2019 took place at BIM World MUNICH was bimspot; Vienna-based start-up. bimspot enables stakeholders to work on a single building information model (BIM) with their choice of software in real-time. It allows a lifecycle orientated collaboration with unmatched quality and transparency in the planning, building and real estate industry.

Smart Territory Digital Challenges 2019

Sensoneo -Winner 2019 – The smart territory digital challenges
The Smart Territory Digital Challenges Pitch & Award Ceremony 2019 took place at BIM World PARIS with the top innovators of the construction & real estate, industry and urban planning. The winner – Sensoneo – provides smart enterprise-grade waste management solutions for cities and businesses to cost-efficiently manage the waste lifecycle and improve the environment and well-being of people.Find out why Sensoneo stood out and who the other BIM innovators were in the press release.

BIM / Smart Construction Award 2018

Voxelgrid – Winner 2018
The BIM/Smart Construction Award 2018 was a special prize of the 10th IoT/WT Innovation World Cup®. The BIM/Smart Construction Award 2018 Pitch & Award Ceremony took place in BIM World MUNICH where 29 startups gathered to present their groundbreaking solutions at the BIM Town Innovation Stage. Congratulations to Voxelgrid, winner of the first BIM/Smart Construction Award. Read more about their ground-breaking solution enabling automated space measurement & material recognition here.