High Growth AI Accelerator – Construction Sector
The High Growth AI Accelerator for BridgeAI is a 14-week accelerator programme for UK-based startups, scaleups and SMEs to help them validate and develop ethical and desirable AI and ML deep-tech solutions.
This opportunity focuses on addressing critical challenges in the construction sector with AI solutions that demonstrate technological innovation and advance the sector’s transformation in the digital era. We are interested in proposals spanning the entire spectrum of the built environment value chain, encompassing areas such as planning and design, construction and engineering, building performance optimisation, and sustainability.
We invite innovators to tackle specific commercial challenges, developed in collaboration with industry leaders. Applicants are encouraged to choose a challenge aligned with their expertise.
- Design and compliance challenges, in collaboration with Foster + Partners
- 3D construction printing challenges, in collaboration with Versarien plc
- Integration and collaboration challenges, in collaboration with Buro Happold
- Open industry challenges
Selected businesses will benefit from collaborating closely with industry players in the sector, access to cloud credits, technical and business expertise, strategic and technical guidance, holistic diagnostics, and tailored support, empowering them to accelerate their product development and readiness.
This programme is the fourth accelerator delivered by Digital Catapult and part of BridgeAI, an Innovate UK national programme that seeks to stimulate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies in agriculture, creative, construction, and transport.