Concular
Dominik Campanella is the CEO and Founder of Concular, which he founded after having worked as Data Scientist at Google and being involved restado, Europe’s largest market place for reclaimed construction materials. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and IT from the University of Mannheim as well as a dual Master’s Degree in Data Science and Management from HEC Paris.
What is the Challenge?
Today, only 1% of building elements are being reused after demolition and the building sector is dominated by the “take-make-waste” model that ignores chances to reuse building materials. This way, many re-usable resources remain unused, while new ones have to be taken from the earth.
What is the Solution?
Concular has created a platform to encourage the reuse of building materials. Builders upload their needs onto Concular’s service, while demolition projects upload available materials before and during the demolition. Subsequently, the company’s digital, AI-driven platform matches builders’ demands for materials with suppliers. Concular also manages the supply chain to get the matched materials where they need to go and places a warranty on the product that is being reused, if requested. In this way, Concular enables sustainably-sourced buildings in pursuit of a circular economy.
What EQT Foundation loves about Concular
Turning buildings into material banks have long been considered the holy grail of the circular economy. It would entail massively changing how an entire sector sources and disposes of materials, and for that matter, an industry that will need to completely transform in order to meet the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Concular team does not only have relevant experience to be able to pull it off, but we have also been impressed with their holistic thinking and value proposition to stakeholders at key positions across the value chain of the building and construction industry.
By taking the position as tinder for the building and construction industry, they are not only matching today's waste with new projects, making it the material of tomorrow - they are also paving the way for modular construction and materials designed for re-use. In order to reach full circularity for buildings, we need to understand what comes out as waste materials in order to design buildings without it.
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