Weekly Radar #324: Construction Climate Calorie Counter, Turbo Charging Offers, CLT Beauty, Proptech's Collective Job Board
In this Weekly Radar, we cover:
- Emidat’s platform streamlines low-cost EPDs, becoming essential for construction transparency.
- TurboHome’s AI-driven buyer service is the latest to discount brokerage to launch, but faces all the same challenges.
- Crow Holdings’ CLT building in Frisco showcases sustainable design that boosts productivity.
- Arc’s pivot benefits niche browser Horse, showing bootstrapping’s power to outlast bigger competitors.
- A new job board from the Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate offers broad access to real estate tech jobs.
- The GEM Proptech Index had a combined market cap of $231.9B, a .17% increase from the previous week.
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Transmission Recap:
Most recently, Drew Meyers argued there is a category king opportunity to emerge as the air traffic controller for the New Aerial Economy. Before that, Drew Meyers talked about how 40 year listing agreements have been rightly outed but securing long-term homeowner relationships doesn’t have to be predatory.
CLIMATE
CONSTRUCTION CLIMATE CALORIE COUNTER
By: Logan Nagel
Clean, low-carbon building projects are much easier when construction companies know the exact environmental impact of their every brick, pipe, and 2x4. That’s why Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are so important. These validated disclosures add transparency and clarity to the impacts of all sorts of products, but they can be time-consuming and expensive to produce—$13,000 to $41,000 each, according to one study.
That’s where Emidat comes in. The German startup provides a SaaS platform that generates EPDs for construction products faster and at a lower cost than the traditional route of manually developing a Life Cycle Assessment and then disclosing the findings in a specific format. The timing is right. Regulations such as the Construction Products Regulation in the EU and the Inflation Reduction Act in the USA are increasingly emphasizing EPDs. This kind of information will give vastly more utility to BIM modeling, allowing builders to granularly track and optimize the impacts of their projects. In turn, this will allow subsequent layers of tools to further optimize design, construction, and procurement. Surprise surprise, Emidat sees themselves as providing this foundation of knowledge for the entire construction value chain. With over 150,000 EPDs generated so far, they are onto something.
REAL ESTATE
TURBO CHARGING OFFERS
By: Drew Meyers
The post-settlement discount brokerage landscape continues to grow. Founded by Ben Bear as an internal tool for BuildCasa's brokerage, TurboHome is "a flat-fee buyer’s agent service offering homebuyers full-service representation for 80% less cost than traditional agents [using] in-house, salaried agents with AI tools..."