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The New Technologies Working To Address Key Climate & Housing Challenges

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Apr 11, 2023

 In the ninth episode of Season 11 of the
Propcast, host Louisa Dickins is joined by Mateo Zimmermann,
Investment Manager at CEMEX VenturesChris Bone,
Co-Founder & CEO at Modulous and Tim Davies,
CEO at HiiROC Ltd.

Episode Highlights:
• The work that each of the businesses do and how they
collaborate
• The work HiiROC are doing to try and make hydrogen more
affordable
• The main issues currently facing the construction industry and
the work being undertaken to try and find solutions 
• How these issues can impair innovation and make the industry
quite risk averse
• The work Modulous are doing on ESG 
• The challenge with bringing new talent into the industry who can
help drive innovation and technology adoption
Why it can take longer to see the rollout of new technologies
within the space
The different speed of innovation adoption across the industry and
the frustrations this can cause
• The investments CEMEX are making in companies working on green
construction
• The issues with supply/ delivery of materials and the work CEMEX
are doing to try and resolve this
• The future they all see for construction

Resources:
• LMRE Global Recruitment and
Search Consultancy
LMRE
YouTube Interviews
PropTech
Salary Report, LMRE 2022
Leaplab | CEMEX
Ventures
Construction
Startup Competition
• McKinsey
• Modulous
• Synhelion
• PartRunner – Home

Key Takeaways:
• CEMEX have been amazing for us through this process because
they’re thought leaders in their space. They have great views
on how the industry can be changed and that’s something that we’re
very keen to help facilitate. Our vision is to help solve the
housing crisis while protecting the planet. – Chris
• We are rolling out the production of hydrogen, but we’re working
with partners like CEMEX to say how do we use it in the right
setting? So how do you use it to produce cement? How do you use it
to produce steel or for transport? – Tim
• We can only tackle the challenges our industry are facing, and I
want to emphasise on that,  if we industry players collaborate
to build a better future. – Mateo
• We’re continually looking at both the physical product and the
carbon content of that product. And until you understand the carbon
content, it’s very difficult to drive change, to improve that, or
to be able to track it and understand exactly what level of carbon
is, in our instance being put in our buildings. – Chris
• It’s a very tight margin business. Therefore, when you look at
cement or steel and the like to suddenly introduce a much
higher energy cost because you’re using hydrogen, not natural gas
or whatever else is nigh on impossible. So we as technology
providers have to provide the solution that makes it
affordable. – Tim
• I think the paces are also a little bit different. There’s
obviously a lot of innovations in terms of materials that are
happening, but not necessarily there is an adoption on the job site
right on construction. – Mateo
• It’s very inefficient and obviously materials are a large part of
the construction budget. So from 40 to 60% depending on the country
and it’s highly inefficient. It’s actually one of the biggest 
reasons for delays in construction. – Mateo

About Our Guests:
Mateo Zimmermann
Mateo Zimmermann is Investment Manager at CEMEX Ventures,
responsible for the Corporate Venture Capital Investments in
startups in the Construction technology space.
Before joining CEMEX Ventures, Mateo worked at The Boston
Consulting Group (BCG) from 2013 to 2017 as a Management
Consultant, where he promoted to Project Leader. He previously
worked at StepOne as an Advisor for startups and corporates in
their Digital Strategies. Before that he worked as an Investment
Analyst in Private Equity and Corporate Debt at the Asset
Management division of Arcano. He also worked for UBS and
Electrolux Group. Mateo has a double degree in Engineering and
Management. He graduated as MSc in Industrial Engineering and
Management at Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) and obtained
a Master in Management at ESCP Europe (Paris, France). He was born
in Madrid (Spain) and has both the Spanish and German
citizenship.

CEMEX Ventures
The global economy has endured a tough 2022. With decades-high
inflation sapping post-lockdown spending and pushing central banks
to hike borrowing costs at an unprecedented clip to bring it under
control. Yet despite poor projections and an overall decline in VC
funding, 2023 represents an optimistic year for startups in the
ConTech sector. Predictions point to trailblazing new technologies
and business models entering the industry to improve sustainability
and reduce the global carbon footprint.
That’s why CEMEX Ventures, the corporate venture capital and open
innovation unit of CEMEX, goes beyond simply investing. Since 2017,
CEMEX Ventures develops relationships between entrepreneurs,
investors, CEMEX, and other corporations in order to revolutionize
the construction industry as we know it today.

Chris Bone
Chris is CEO and co-founder of Modulous, the construction
technology company that was formed to address the global housing
crisis while reducing the climate impact of real estate
development. Chris has 25 years’ experience in the construction
industry, having managed businesses across consulting,
manufacturing, and construction. At Modulous he is responsible for
all aspects of the company’s growth and development in the UK,
Europe, and the USA.

Modulous
Modulous was founded in 2018 by a team of construction, technology,
and manufacturing specialists to create an asset-light model for
the design and delivery of sustainable homes. Its integrated
digital and physical product suite is designed to make the whole
construction cycle – from feasibility right through to delivery on
site – more efficient and effective.
Its software platform generates optimised schemes based on a Kit of
Parts, which is manufactured within the supply chain, removing the
need for dedicated factories. The Kit of Parts is a standardised
set of assemblies providing a high-performance net-zero modular
housing system, delivered in half the time of traditional
housebuilding, with 70% less waste and 60% lower embodied
carbon.
Modulous has offices in London and Seattle and is the first
globally scalable technology solution to address both the worldwide
housing crisis and escalating climate emergency.

Tim Davies
Tim has held Chief Executive & Board roles across a variety of
sectors including green-tech, retail & service-providers working
with both corporates and start-ups. He has a proven track record of
identifying and delivering new business opportunities and
considerable value creation including 20 years’ experience working
for PE & VC-backed businesses. Now, as CEO of HiiROC, Tim and his
team have developed a technology with a potentially
transformational impact on Climate Change. 

HiiROC
A transformational new technology for affordable, clean hydrogen
production using world leading proprietary plasma technology.
HiiROC’s Thermal Plasma Electrolysis (TPE) uses renewable (or grid)
electricity to split hydrocarbons (biomethane, flare gas, natural
gas, propane, etc) into zero-emission Hydrogen and inert solid
Carbon Black (i.e. without producing CO2).
TPE works at a fraction of the cost of Water Electrolysis, without
the CO2 emissions of Steam Methane Reforming and is scalable from
micro onsite (saving transport & storage costs) to industrial
scale. The highly versatile technology is being piloted globally in
2023 across the hydrogen sectors from industrial decarbonisation to
transport to grid blending and power management whilst also being
used for flare gas mitigation and CO2 reduction using
biomethane.

About Our Host
Louisa Dickins
Louisa
is the co-founder of LMRE, which has rapidly become the market
leading global PropTech recruitment platform and search consultancy
with operations across North America, United Kingdom, Europe and
Asia-Pacific.
To promote the industry she is so passionate about, Louisa set up
the Global podcast ‘The
Propcast’
where she hosts and invites guests from the built
environment space to join her in conversation about innovation.

About LMRE
LMRE is globally recognised
for leading the way in Real Estate Tech & Innovation talent
management.
From the outset our vision was to become a global provider of the
very best strategic talent to the most innovative organisations in
PropTech, ConTech, Smart Buildings, ESG, Sustainability and
Strategic Consulting.
At LMRE we are fully committed at all times to exceed the
expectations of our candidates and clients by providing the very
best advice and by unlocking exclusive opportunities across our
global network in the UK, Europe, North America and
Asia-Pacific.

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