Deep decarbonization of the industries is key to the efforts being done worldwide to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, while pursuing the means to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. Why? Global Warming has a devastating impact on the people…

By: Mateo Zimmermann, Investment Manager at CEMEX Ventures With +15 years of professional experience, Mateo has an engineering and management background, that helps him seek solutions to enhance productivity in the construction industry through innovation and technology. Modular construction is on the brink to becoming one of the many topics…

Who says that with the $2.9 billion invested so far in 2021 in the ConTech ecosystem, or Construction Technology, this does not become a crushing trend in the industry? Last 2020 the ConTech industry closed with $1.3 billion (USD) invested and over 100 deals closed. This year, the overwhelming figures…

Approaching construction from an efficient and smart perspective is the raison-d’ être of smart cities. There are so many different aspects which have an impact on smart cities: energy, transportation, waste management, mobility, not to mention the efficient construction of smart buildings and infrastructures integrated in the city. But as…

A huge amount of data is generated at every single stage of a project’s lifecycle, and this is where Building Information Modeling (BIM)comes into play. Do you know what this innovative trend is all about? BIM is not a type of software but a methodology. Building Information Modeling refers to…

Innovation in the construction industry is needed now. Although it is known for moving on a slower pace and fall behind other industries, there are more players like us coming into the mix that are betting on disrupting the industry and doing things differently. …

If the pandemic taught all of us something was that an optimal management of the supply chain guarantees that toilet paper won´t be running out on your local supermarket. If that does not tell you that this is an important area withing every industry, nothing else will better explain it. …

The call for innovation in the construction industry involves every relevant player in the construction value chain and that includes those in charge of supplying the building materials for a project. Lucky for us, at CEMEX Ventures we know a thing or two about the world´s most used construction materials…

By Gonzalo Galindo, Head of CEMEX Ventures — With 30 years of experience in the built sector, Gonzalo leads CEMEX Ventures in the search of innovative business models for CEMEX and the construction industry, helping propel innovation, sustainability, and digitization in the sector that leads to more collaboration and less fragmentation. Back when big machinery, heavy equipment, and…