There's a lot that can be done in the field of digital construction. To help guide your idea formation, we've set some topic areas. We encourage you to use the existing e-construction platform API services or think about how their prototype/service could add value to the platform. However, if your idea doesn't fall under any of the categories below, you're welcome to submit it anyway. As we said, the sky's the limit! 

Circular economy of buildings

Accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral built environment by exploring opportunities in the circular economy and with the life cycle of buildings. Come and solve circular economy problems with data-driven solutions in terms of:

• maintenance;

• materials and products of waste and disposal;

• land-use logistics;

• societal or economical benefits of life cycle thinking; 

• environment;

• carbon footprint assessment;

• any other climate action opportunities utilizing building datasets.
  

Deep energy renovation digital solutions

Find solutions to high energy consumption levels, insufficient ventilation, uneven indoor temperatures, and insufficient thermal comfort levels:

• scan to BIM processes and workflows;

• BIM construction elements catalog;  

• automated design for manufacture;  

• energy and sustainable modeling workflows;

• all other solutions to boost up offsite-prefabricated renovation technology.

Health and safety

Find solutions to raise the standards in construction health and safety:

• Safety instructions

• Training and manuals

• Incident reporting and documentation

• Tools and equipment maintenance

• Personal protective equipment

Supply chains

Find solutions for construction supply chain and communication inefficiencies related to many different parties in the segment:

• Clients and main contractors

• Main contractors and subcontractors

• Contractors and material suppliers

• Architects and engineers

Design and design management

Support clients, design teams and design managers to plan and develop better new or existing infrastructure and building projects for maximizing client and end-user value proposition, and achieving ambitious European Green Deal goals. 

• Value creation and management

• Integrated and collaborative design project delivery

• Remote design process management

• Communication and information management

Spatial planning and building

Bring efficiency and transparency into the spatial planning field. For example:

• Text segmentation from explanatory letters (spatial planning and construction projects). Possible topics are conditions, recommendations, and explanations. How to find and digitize different conditions from a text document and how to use them in the building permit process?

• 3D visualization of spatial planning. How to visualize spatial planning conditions and how to use them in building permit procedures?

• Involvement tool for interest groups. How to easily communicate and involve different interest groups and how to manage feedback?

GENERAL CHALLENGES OF THE ESTONIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

1. Low productivity and profitability;
2. Low digitalization levels within smaller construction companies;
3. Very little digital collaboration;
4. Moderate implementation of modern technologies;
5. Poor document and information management over the whole lifecycle of the building;
6. Information exchange between building material producers and the other parties in the industry is not done automatically;
7. Life cycle assessment and CO2 footprint for buildings are time-consuming to calculate due to insufficient data quality;
8. Digitalisation and implementation of BIM.