The 3rd Construction Tech® Start-ups Challenge unveils its winners

The members of the jury, who exceptionally met virtually, selected 5 laureates. And for the first time, 3 special mentions were awarded. The start-ups selected were chosen for the quality of their solutions and for the real added value they bring to the sector. Note that among these winners and special mentions, Rebartek AS is from Norway and Weavair from Canada.

For this new edition, the members of the jury wanted to salute “the mobilization of start-ups who presented quality projects and very concrete solutions. ". They also noted the growing presence of solutions that take environmental concerns into account.

The laureats

ART & FACT INNOVATION
(Category: 3D printing)

Art & Fact Innovation designs pylons intended to accommodate mobile telephone operators, in ultra high performance concrete 3D printing. These are designated and architectural, and are integrated into the landscapes. They are customizable and adaptable, and benefit from a lower carbon footprint than traditional masts. They can be vegetated or painted.

Art & Fact Innovation partners are structures specializing in their field: Engineering: Lamoureux and Ricciotti / 3D printing: XtreeE / Editing: Freyssinet

• Founder: Denis WEHRLÉ
• Year established: 2018
• Website : artetfact.eu

KEYCLICK
(Category: Smart Building)

Keyclic is a collaborative platform that simplifies day-to-day incident management. 100% digital, this platform makes it possible to manage the post-delivery services of a real estate program responding to 3 major challenges of these periods:

1. The clarity and simplicity of requests
2. Efficiency in treatment
3. Customer satisfaction

• Founders: Baptiste YVENAT and Julien BOYÉ
• Year established: 2014
• Website : keyclic.com

PANGA
(Category: Smart City)

Currently, most data is sent and processed in the cloud, before being sent back and used at its point of departure: this is called Cloud Computing. Panga is convinced that the future of IoT lies in Edge Computing: processing data where it is produced. Panga is developing a solution for Smart Building and Smart City based on a unified local network architecture for buildings and districts, built on distributed, secure and resilient systems (Grid & Edge computing) in order to deliver services to users.

• Founder: Patrick SIMON
• Year established: 2015
• Website : panga.fr

QARNOT BUILDINGS
(Category: Renewable energy)

Qarnot was founded nearly ten years ago around an ecological idea and common sense: recovering waste heat from computer servers to heat buildings, in a logic of digital circular economy: heat, waste of some in IT becomes the precious resource of others in the building industry. Thus, Qarnot has created data centers to be placed directly in buildings, in the form of radiators (to heat rooms) and boilers (to heat water) to heat ecologically thanks to the heat released by computer calculations. In this logic of ecology and economy, Qarnot has also developed energy management software for buildings.

• Founders: Paul BENOIT and Miroslav SVIEZENY
• Year established: 2010
• Website : qarnot.com

REBARTEK AS
(Category: Robotics)

Rebartek is a startup that designs and prefabricates automatic rebar. Rebartek specializes in the field of robotics. The solution is built in two stages: first, a robot builds the structure of the reinforcing bars, which is then installed on the site. Failing to assemble each bar by hand, the robot can itself assemble them and build the "frame". This solution saves time and labor. The second part of the solution is automated software. This makes it possible to completely customize the plans of the structures of the “reinforcements” and to give the instructions to the robot. Thanks to this automated software, Rebartek saves 20% of materials.

• Founder: Max TROMMER
• Year established: 2018
• Website : rebartek.com

Special mentions

BIOXEGY
special mention "Green tech"

Biomimicry is a unique R&D / R&I approach which consists of drawing inspiration from the ingenuity of living mechanisms. Bioxegy is a design and engineering office specializing in bio mimicry. He works with large groups, mid-sized companies and SMEs, all sectors combined, in France and in Europe.

• Founders: Sidney ROSTAN and Simon de MYTTENAERE
• Year established: 2018
• Website : bioxegy.com

URBAN PICKUP
special mention "Urban agriculture"

Cueillette Urbaine offers the sale and operation of productive and ecological turnkey urban farms, the installation of participatory vegetable gardens in companies and the animation of workshops on awareness of ecology and seasonal cuisine.

• Founders: Paul ROUSSELIN and Pierre-Frédéric BOUVET
• Year established: 2016
• Website : pickerbaine.com

WEAVAIR
special mention "Air quality"

Weavair's solution is a smart sensor device, as well as prediction software for air distribution systems to reduce the risk of disease transmission and help lower costs.

• Founder: Natalia MYKHAYLOVA
• Year established: 2018
• Website : weavair.com

Next steps :

• January 15, 2021: Pitch of the winners and election of the Grand Prize winner;
• Online posting of all candidates in the Digital Construction Tech® Directory;
• October 3 to 6, 2022: Presence of the Grand Prize winner in the Construction Tech® sector at BATIMAT.

The Construction Tech® Start-ups Challenge Jury

• Stephanie Bigeon-Welcome : Communications and digital director, OPPBTP (the Professional Organization for the Prevention of Building and Public Works);
• Solene Bordenave : Senior consultant, Impulse Partners;
• Delphine Eyraud-Galant : Smart Up Buildings Delegate, Gimélec;
• Emily Garcia : Innovation finance manager, BPI France;
• Emmanuel Natchitz : Director of Development, ESITC Paris;
• Franck LeNuellec : Marketing, development and strategic innovation director, CCCA-BTP;
• William Sever : Responsible for monitoring investments, BPI France;
• Ara Shahnazaryan : Strategy and digital transformation advisor, SH Conseil;
• Thomas volpi : Director, Houzz;
• Benedict Winter : Senior Manager Energy, Building & Environmental Technologies, GTAI (Germany Trade & Invest).