The EG Tech Awards is all about championing the tech and real estate stars, innovators and adopters embracing digital transformation as the historically slow-moving property sector is propelled headfirst into a far more reactive, agile future.
Judges for the awards, which is now in its second year, were inundated with entries and nominations, making the decision making process both inspiring and difficult. But there can be only one winner for each of the categories.
And at the most anticipated event of the summer, held at The Brewery, EC1, today, those winners were revealed.
Congratulations not just to the winners but everyone shortlisted.
Construction Award
WINNER
PlanRadar
“The winning company has proven great traction,” said the judges. “An impressive model, lots of customers and a great track record already.”
Finalists
Fonn Construction
Innerspace Homes
Oakwood Engineering Solutions
PlanRadar
Infrastructure Award
WINNER
UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium
Judges said the winner hit the brief on so many levels. From innovative infrastructure analysis to a focus on future needs as well as the present. The winner demonstrated a razor sharp approach to tackling infrastructure issues head on.
Finalists
Classic Folios
Glide Residential
UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium
Innovation Award
WINNER
Appear Here
In a category with more than 30 entries, this was another tough one to judge. After lengthy deliberations, the judges picked this winner because of its new approach to a business model that judges believe “will completely transform” the sector.
Finalists
Appear Here
Dashflow for CRE
Flatfair
Leverton
Matterport
RenKap
StreetDots
Investment Award – Property
WINNER
Goldacre
“A prime example of innovative investment” was how judges described this winner. In a tough category swamped with entries, this was a hard fought victory but one the judges said was entirely deserved.
Finalists
British Pearl
CapitalRise
Goldacre
Investment Award – Technology
WINNER
Gyana
Judges said they liked the winner’s “super smart” approach to data-driven investment and badged this company as doing something new and different around deep analytics from different data sources.
Finalists
BidX1
Coyote Software
Dashflow for CRE
Drooms
Gyana
Oxane Partners
Placemaking Award – Property
WINNER
Wordsearch Place
The winner of this category has demonstrated just how far placemaking can go to transform buildings, spaces, places and entire cities. Judges were impressed by how far this company has managed to take some of its projects and how it gets developers and traditional real estate companies on board with a new way of thinking.
Finalists
FutureCity
Knight Frank
Wordsearch Place
Placemaking Award – Technology
WINNER
Built-ID
Judges praised the winner for its dedicated engagement with the community and described it as an “undeniably strong company” and “a worthy winner in a tough category”
Finalists
Built-ID
District Technologies
Grain Connect
StreetDots
Productivity Award
WINNER
Open Box
The judges said this company is really helping to drive efficiency. It is helping the real estate industry to take the next steps towards transformation and there is no doubt that the services it provides increase efficiency.
Finalists
District Technologies
Essensys
Open Box
Student Cribs
WiredScore
Sustainability Award – Technology
WINNER
Pavegen
The winner of this category has not only been working hard on its product, but raising awareness around sustainability around the world. Judges praised the winner for having a wider impact on the sustainability agenda behind the business itself and were impressed by how far the product has come.
Finalists
Glide Residential
Iceni Projects
Pavegen
Sustainability Award – Property
WINNER
Nuveen Real Estate
The judges said the winner of this category really stood out for doing something new, fresh and totally different in the sustainability sphere.
Finalists
Innerspace Homes
Longevity Partners
Nuveen Real Estate
The Big Picture Award
WINNER
HM Land Registry
Judges said the winner of this award was an inspiration. It successfully demonstrated collaborative thinking within a large, complex organisation by pulling together the world of real estate and technology. Judges added that the winner also had a refreshing and honest approach to the challenges of instigating change in such a large organisation that others could learn from.
Finalists
British Property Federation
HM Land Registry
NHS Property Services
Remit Consulting and the RICS
UK PropTech Association
VU.CITY
EG Tech Academy Award
WINNER
Aphex
Judges said that while both finalists pitched products that sought to solve productivity problems, the opportunity for large-scale and dramatic improvement across an entire sector was clearly evident in one of those pitches.
Finalists
Aphex
Centric Lab
Bridging the Gap Award
WINNER
Fionnuala Hogan, managing director, Goldacre
“Supportive, innovative, forward-thinking.” Judges picked the winner in this category not only for their approach to the future growth of the relationship between property and technology, but for their past dedication to bridging the gap in a sector that has been evolving for many years. The winner of this award truly embodies the ethos behind the bridging-the-gap concept. One of the hardest categories to judge with a plethora of exceptional and inspirational entries and a very strong shortlist.
Finalists
Julian Carey, executive property director, Stenprop
Amanda Clack, head of strategic advisory, CBRE
Leila Collins, senior associate, MetaProp
Savannah de Savary, founder & chief executive, Built-ID
Angelica Donati, chief executive, Donati Immobiliare UK
Fionnuala Hogan, managing director, Goldacre
Bill Hughes, head of real assets, LGIM Real Assets
William Newton, president & EMEA managing director, WiredScore
Andy Pyle, head of UK real estate, KPMG
Photographs by Ed Telling Photography
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