Our project portfolio is designed to strengthen knowledge, collaboration, innovation, efficiency and value creation based on new technology in the construction and real estate industry and to reduce the environmental and carbon footprint.
The team and board behind Proptech Innovation is a group of experienced professionals with a passion for driving innovation in the proptech industry. See our team here. Read more about us here.
The focus area includes arenas for industrial knowledge sharing, executive education programs, research projects and dissemination, master student involvement and internships, podcasts, and similar activities.
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This focus area includes activities such as speed-dating, matchmaking, investor pitching, innovation workshops and hackathons and a proptech coworking space - as well as concrete bilateral and multilateral innovation projects, for example, in smart building projects.
Visit our collaborator's coworking space: Proptech Bergen Cowork.
It is a coworking space within the proptech community. They are passionate about creating a vibrant environment! There, you will be surrounded by like-minded people with whom you can create synergies. You can choose between working in the city center or in Fyllingsdalen.
Proptech Innovation has close relations with other Norwegian business clusters such as GCE Ocean Technology, NCE Seafood, NCE Finance Innovation and NCE Media and innovation system providers such as VIS Innovation and StartupLab. The collaboration includes webinars, Innovation Week, the Norwegian Cognitive Center for Applied AI (further elaborated under #2), incubation programs and a joint process to launch a catapult for service innovation.
Proptech Innovation started after a study tour, and the first activity was to go abroad to see and understand what was happening. Internationalization is in the genes of the cluster project. We collaborate with international partners such as Metaprop in New York City, Plug and Play (Paris office) and Digilab Scandinavia, which is a door opener to relevant international business environments. Activities include study tours, startup pitching, networking and Proptech Innovation Conference - which has international ambitions.
Project managers, cluster development:
Stig Fr. Opsvik, Anders Brekke, Bjarne Hareide and Therese Hagenes (coworking).
There are a wide variety of suppliers holding an even wider variety of data about a single building. The project aims to establish a common approach to data sharing from these sources, enabling to collect data on a building level and to open data for innovation from third parties.
Project Manager: Anders Waage Nielsen
Working Group: BIR, BKK, Frydenbø Eiendom, Airthings, BOB BBL, Norconsult, Rambøll, Veni/Smedvig, Bergen Fiber, Norce Research, Vill Urbanisme, Sparebanken Vest and Bergen Municipality.
Project sponsors: BIR, BKK, Frydenbø Eiendom, BOB BBL, Vestland Fylkeskommune.
As a pilot case on the Data Platform, we are prototyping a data-driven sustainability index to measure a building's environmental and carbon footprint - based both on fixed data on the features of the building and live data on how the building I used.
Project Manager: Anders Waage Nielsen
Working Group: BIR, BKK, Frydenbø Eiendom, Airthings, BOB BBL, Norconsult, Rambøll, Veni/Smedvig, Bergen Fiber, Norce Research, Vill Urbanisme, Sparebanken Vest and Bergen Municipality.
Project sponsors: BIR, BKK, Frydenbø Eiendom, BOB BBL, Vestland Fylkeskommune.
Proptech Innovation is one of the founding partners of the Norwegian Cognitive Center (NCC) for applied artificial intelligence. NCC is an industrial AI-centre connection research and international platform provider to specific challenges and future-oriented possibilities in business and the public sector.
Project Manager: Odd Gurvin
Steering Committee: Proptech Innovation, GCE Ocean Technology, NCE Seafood, NCE Finance Innovation, Bergen Municipality, Bergen Chamber.
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Proptech Innovation has started a project to explore commercial possibilities and technical support needs to develop a functional value chain for used building materials. The project will build on learnings from other projects and use the unique composition of the cluster - and relations held by cluster members - to establish new models based on commercial drivers and a technological approach.
Project Manager: Hanne Wetland
Working Group: Under construction.
Project sponsor: Bergen Municipality
A pilot project developing integrated zero-emission solutions for the construction site. The project is run by cluster partner BKK along with several other cluster members.
Project Manager: Camilla Moster, BKK
Working Group: BKK Nett, BKK Varme, Cramo, BOB, Backe og Åsen & Øvrelid
Project Sponsor: Enova, Norwegian Research Council, Innovation Norway
The ultimate starting point for a smart, efficient and sustainable building/area of buildings is the planning process. This project is about the appliance and development of new common tools and processes to enhance planning efficiency, multidisciplinary approaches and coordination - in order to build and develop more smart and sustainable buildings and cities.
Project Manager: Bjarne Hareide
Project Team: Ingunn Ek, Øyvind Storheim, Philip Russo, Anders Brekke
Learn more about Proptech Innovation Conference
Proptech Innovation Conference is an international conference held in Bergen, Norway. The conference focuses on the future of the construction and real estate industry and is tightly programmed with a series of short talks, startup pitches and debates. Content and distribution partners are Plug and Play, Metaprop NYC and MIPIM.
Project Manager: Currently in-between project managers. Project to be rebooted in 2021.
Working group: BOB, BIR, BKK, Proptech Consulting, Abo Plan og arkitektur, Opus, Norconsult, Netlife, Harris, Hammervoll Pind.