8th Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®

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The construction industry is increasingly required to drive innovation in order to meet the rising demands for sustainability, efficiency, and digitalization. Open innovation and collaboration with startups are key factors in driving this progress. Established companies can benefit from the agile mindset and creative solutions of young startups, particularly in the area of Building Information Modeling (BIM), by sharing ideas and expertise. These partnerships enable faster implementation of new technologies and more effective solutions to complex challenges. 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 8th 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 2025 – 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
Free marketing packages and media publicity 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
Free speaking slots at international prominent tech events
Placement on the Hall of Fame of the Innovation World Cup®
And many more!

Deadline is the 3rd of October 2025, 11:59 PM CET. Participation is free of charge.

Evaluation criteria are: Level of Innovation – Go to Market Approach – Commercial Potential – Sustainability

A digital twin is born: All future building projects are constructed visually before the physical execution of the plan. Let us see your solution for planning, data collection and exchange, collaboration between all stakeholders or the visualization of the construction projects – And become the next star in the AEC industry!

Show us how you will make the construction site more safe, more cost and material efficient! From telematic solutions and applications, remote control of vehicles, connected and smart construction equipment, materials and machines to software for a continues site monitoring…or whatelse do you think of? Make your innovation for the construction site 4.0 count!

Are you the one who makes our living spaces smarter and safer? Operation and maintenance of building systems, fully connected smart home systems, interior design technologies, IoT security, and AI devices – we are curious about what else you have to offer for the intelligent property management!

Does your solution improve the environment we live in and keep our planet clean? Inspire us with your sustainable solution for green building, efficient water and energy management, smart waste management, minimization of Co2 footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, smart street lighting, to name but a few, and become a part of our eco-system!

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Previous Smart Building / Smart Construction Winners

MOD – Winner 2024 is a Swiss company offering machine-learning-powered supply chain platform for prefab construction. Their exceptional solution earned them the first place in the 7th Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup® at BIM World MUNICH 2024.

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 - TOP Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup BIM World MUNICH

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.

Smart Building Smart Construction Innovator 2020_ PURE Applikationen

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

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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

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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.