Marco Polo 100 Digital Build Challenge By Agorize

Marco Polo 100 Digital Build Challenge was created with the goal of achieving our mission to build affordable housing using new construction technologies and processes.

Revolutionize the construction industry, solve the affordable housing crisis by building a multi-residential building for $100/sq ft using new technologies. Invitation to innovators in 3D printing, prefabrication technologies, robotics, architecture, and construction.

With 7 decades of experience building, financing, and operating complex long term infrastructure projects in one of Canada’s most influential cities, Toronto, Horizon is driven to pioneer the next innovation in sustainable real estate.

Construction is an industry that’s made relatively little progress in how it organizes its business, still using century-old technologies and processes. We believe digital capabilities present opportunities to make qualitative leaps for the industry. There have been piecemeal efforts made, but no significant revolution in overall project scale practice.

This is where we want your help!

Horizon is looking for passionate individuals around the world who have innovative solutions that can help us bring our vision to life. We want your ideas & will partner with you to realize them. We will provide land, technical expertise, and funding to actualize and build the chosen concepts. At the end of our journey, our goal is to have several completed buildings that are operational, and places people can call home.

The Marco Polo 100 Digital Build Challenge is open to everyone

We believe the best ideas can come from anywhere.

No matter whether you are a startup, entrepreneur, inventor, industry professional, educator, or a student around the globe from fields including but definitely not limited to 3D- printing, prefabrication technologies, robotics, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, and construction.

Our expert mentors & partner associations will support you during the whole process to help you advance in all aspects that you do not have expertise in yet.

Your mission is to develop innovative ideas to build a multi-residential building for $100/sq ft using new technologies and processes and reduce traditional construction timelines by up to 50%. This Challenge is attempting a leap for digital technology, 3D printing, robotics, automation, prefabricated manufacturing that is both exciting and formidable; breaking down traditional silos and bridging knowledge in construction, architecture, and engineering to implement a living breathing building.

All of the above has resulted in a shortage of affordable housing for the modern family.

We hope that with increasing use of technology, automation, and innovation in construction processes we can:

Reduce costs and timelines for construction
As a derived effect of the above, reduce the cost of housing
Reduce project risks, particularly with on-site construction risks such as weather and other external factors
Improve efficiency and productivity
Attract younger people to the field of construction and create new types of jobs
Improve health and safety conditions for workers

Our primary goal is to reduce construction costs and timelines by utilizing new technologies and processes while making a building that is livable, appealing to local audiences, and fully compliant with all applicable regulations and zoning bylaws, at a cost of $1076/sq meters ($100/sq ft) or less.

Our expert team of mentors & partner associations will closely accompany you during the whole process allowing you to learn about specifications, submissions and aspects of this challenge that you have no expertise in. So don’t be shy, we want to hear your idea!

Awards:- Horizon Legacy is offering you a chance to pioneer the next innovation in sustainable real estate. Join the challenge and get up to $10,000,000 of investments and $200,000 cash prize to actualize and build your concept.

Deadline:- 12-01-2021

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