Innovation through collaboration and networking

Slovenski gradbeni grozd

Construction Cluster of Slovenia

Our services

After more than 10 years in active participation in EU research and development projects, skills development project and technology transfer projects we understand the main reasons for successful and unsuccessful implementation of commercialisation of innovation.We started as a construction cluster and through transformation we developed services which could help organisations in each sector.

We offer workshops for Business model innovation, which is a new competitive advantage (including for Circular Economy and commercialisation of Innovation). We also offer our networking potential.

We seek for organisations who understand the necessity of change in rapidly changing environment, who are intended to unlock their hidden potential and explore their business models and seek for possibilities for reinvention and are willing to cooperate with independent professionals. We can help them finding solutions to reinvent their value proposition and therefore their profit.

One of the main reasons for startups and enterprises fail is “no-market need” for their products. This not mean that their products or services are useless. It more describing the situation when the understanding about what problems could be solved with the use of the products or services or what “jobs to be done” could be done for the customers is not on the highest level of understanding.

For that reason we help startups, enterprises and other clusters redefine their business model and value proposition to be more successful, sell more and have more profit.

We usually do this with the combination of coaching and workshop facilitation.

Important: this is not only for construction or construction related companies. We can help companies and clusters in various fields of expertise. We can also help companies be more circular, including their business models.

Contact Details:

Vaše 41a, Medvode,

Slovenia,1215 Website:

SGG

Email: vladimir.gumilar@sgg.si

Phone: +38641770482

Skype: vgumilar

CCS as innovation cluster

The main goal of the CONSTRUCTION CLUSTER OF SLOVENIA, CCS (SLOVENSKI GRADBENI GROZD) is to improve domestic and international competitiveness of its members through commercial cooperation and networking, R&D and innovation, education, training and policy action. The cluster was established in 2004 by construction companies and institutions in the fields of building design, consulting, engineering, contracting and production of building materials and products. It is an Economic Interest Grouping (not-for-profit). CSS is an open organization to all interested stakeholders in the construction sector and related technological domains.

CCS is a member of European Construction Technology Platform and of the E2B association (Energy Efficient Buildings) and Renovate Europe national supporting partner for Slovenia.

The main competences of the CCS as innovation cluster are:

Preparation of RTD proposals for national and EU public and private funding
Collaboration in RTD projects implementation, representing industry association and industry needs and expectations, and/or directly involving cluster members (industry actor) to project activities, and/or in dissemination and exploitation activities
EU and national R&D and innovation projects coordination and management, including costs / financial reporting
Coordination and management of dissemination and exploitation actions in EU funded RTD projects, consultancy and deployment of exploitation activities, technology transfer and intellectual property issues.
Cluster and other new collaborative organisational and business models development and implementation. Innovation management
National and international networking, policy actions (ECTP, E2B),

Areas of interest

Due to heterogeneity of the cluster members there is no common RTD topic or topics like industrialization, but a list of areas of interest for EU and trans-national cooperation:

New and renewed technologies (advanced materials and composites, road construction technologies, smart building materials, intelligent structures, new optimized construction technologies, prefabrication and automation, sustainable construction processes, intensified use of ICT in construction, building bionics and biomimetics …).
Sustainable buildings and construction (design, construction, retrofitting, assessment, commissioning, operation and maintenance)
Protection of the environment (building waste management, sustainable urban drainage systems, neutralization of harmful substances in building materials…).
Heritage preservation (identification of current state of heritage and planning of retrofitting priorities, consequence based approach to heritage preservation, advanced application of tradition materials and low-intrusive retrofitting techniques, energy efficiency in heritage building…).
Energy efficiency and renewables in buildings and districts
Water efficiency buildings and districts
Green skills and jobs development (vocational and professional training and education)
New business and financing models in sustainable construction and energy retrofitting and renovation /clusters, virtual organisations…
Circular economy in construction sector

International Circular Construction Cluster

· 50% of the Earth’ s raw materials are used in construction and nearly;
· 40% of the final energy consumption is used during the service life of buildings, especially from the use and maintenance of buildings, but also in the production of construction products and materials from raw materials;
· 30% of generated waste is from the construction sector in the EU.

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European strategic cluster partnerships

ESCP4i

European strategic cluster partnership for internationalization

We led the project ECCA – European Circular ConstructionAlliance – adopting Circular Economy for internationalization and global competitiveness of European SMEs in Building and Construction. The project ended in late 2017. At the end of 2019, we revived it with an initiative for an International Circular Construction Cluster.

ESCPs3

European strategic cluster partnership for investments in smart specialization

As part of the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for smart specialization investments (ESCP-S3), we participated in the CYBER SECURE LIGHT project, which addressed cyber security risks in smart buildings, primarily lighting. As part of the project, we were also the ambassador of IOT Solutions World Congress 2019 and co-organizer of the event as part of the congress.

ESCP4X

European strategic cluster partnership for excellence

As part of the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Excellence (ESCP-4X), we are participating in the SMART4NZEB project, which enables international exchanges and strategic partnerships with an emphasis on exchanging experiences between different practices, skills, policies, goals and levels of engagement. (nZEB). Opportunity for companies interested in the markets of Poland, Romania and Serbia.