Berlin starts the contract compass: New transparency for construction projects!

Berlin starts the contract compass: New transparency for construction projects!

The jury decision was made: On March 12, 2025, the exciting live pitch for the competition took place in the Festival House Bregenz, in which a total of 26 innovative projects were submitted. The experts had the task of choosing the most promising projects that can now receive financial support of up to 50 percent of their project costs, as reported. Among the winners are impressive developments, including a AI platform for processing damage reports for property managers and an app that enables precise photo measurements using lidar technology. Particularly noteworthy is the "i.Aplear" project, which was awarded a special prize for digital innovation in tourism and enables mixed reality city tours.

At the same time there is exciting news from Berlin: On April 3, 2025, the "procurement compass" will be presented, which aims to improve the transparency and accessibility of tenders for planning services. A collaboration with the Chamber of Architects in Berlin has already started and promotes the exchange of best practice in awarding practice. The contractor monitoring, which has been carried out since 2020, has established itself as an important instrument to analyze and optimize the procurement practice, as ak-berlin.de . The new contract compass will record both national and Europe -wide tenders and is intended to help increase the quality of the competitive procedures. This wants to significantly improve the conditions for fair and quality -oriented assignment of order and increase the visibility of exemplary procedures.

important impulses for the future

The focus of the effort is the close link between the quality of the procedures and the results that are achieved. A transparent and just tendering process will not only improve the competitive situation for architects and planners, but will also raise the implementation of construction projects to a new quality level. These measures are particularly relevant in view of the challenges in construction and the need to promote transformation to more sustainability. The procurement compass will go online in the summer of 2025 and is expected to be found at www.beste-vergung.berlin .