Vizcab accelerates the building industry's carbon transition
Our mission: to offer construction industry players the fastest, most powerful and most collaborative Building Lifecycle Analysis service.
We believe that digital technology and data sciences have the potential to catalyze the building industry's energy-carbon transition, making it profitable for the entire sector.
Tech for Good!
Did you know?
The building sector accounts for 40% of CO2 emissions when all three scopes are taken into account. In a context of climate crisis, this expenditure has become a key factor in reducing France's greenhouse gas emissions
Source : ecologie.gouv.fr
our mission
Decarbonization, a crucial challenge for the building industry
The building sector currently accounts for 38% of the world's energy-related CO2 emissions, with a weekly construction output equivalent to the size of Paris. Despite this, the sustainability of new housing, offices and facilities remains insufficiently assessed, accounting for less than 1% of cases worldwide.
Housing-related energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise through 2019, with trends little impacted by the global pandemic.
With the world's population expected to grow by 2 billion by 2050,new buildings will have a significant impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions, particularly in emerging markets where building standards are less stringent.
This will also lead to a significant increase in raw materials consumption, largely attributable to the construction sector.
our mission
Making complex phenomena understandable
Our challenge is to make the power of Building Lifecycle Analyses accessible to construction and real estate professionals.
Thanks to technologies linked to data science and Artificial Intelligence, we can help your company become carbon neutral by 2050.
The Vizcab patent
As part of his research and teaching at EPFL Lausanne, Thomas Jusselme has published a method for creating technical design solutions that meet specific performance objectives for a building. The method involves selecting a design model and parameters from databases, generating design alternatives, evaluating their impact on building performance from another database, and finally ranking the design parameters according to their contribution to performance.
This has been enshrined in a patent held by EPFL, which Vizcab has exclusive rights to use.
The founders
Thomas Jusselme
Thomas Jusselme is co-founder of Vizcab. With a strong attachment to nature and a keen interest in environmental protection, and close ties with the wood industry, he trained as an environmental engineer, then went on to specialize in industrial design with a Master's degree from the Université Technologique de Compiègne. It was during a long trip to 25 countries in the company of Guillaume Lafont, to discover best practices in sustainable construction, that Thomas found his calling. After several entrepreneurial adventures, Thomas and Guillaume co-founded Vizcab in 2015.
In parallel with his role at Vizcab, Thomas is very much involved in academia. In 2008, he began a parallel teaching/research activity at ENSAG in the Constructive Cultures laboratory, then at ENSAL and finally at EPFL between 2014 and 2020, where he directs the Building2050 research program. He obtained a PhD from EPFL in Architecture and Urban Sciences in 2020 with a thesis entitled "Development of an LCA-based data-driven method for low carbon buildings at early design stages". Since 2019, he has been Professor of Building Energy Efficiency at HEIA Fribourg and at the Smart Living Lab. His research work has led to the publication of over sixty scientific articles and books.
Guillaume Lafont
Guillaume Lafont is co-founder and Managing Director of Vizcab. With a dual engineering and entrepreneurial background (environmental engineering Lyon 1 and EM Lyon), he joined forces with Thomas Jusselme in 2006 to structure the launch and development of exndo architectures and Milieu Studio, an engineering firm specializing in eco-design and building physics.
In 2015, together with Thomas Jusselme and Michel Forgue (one of France's most recognized experts in construction economics), he set up the web platform Vizcab.io, to help construction and real estate players accelerate the carbon transition of their projects at the best construction cost.
"Our ambition is to enable all players in the construction industry - developers, promoters, architects, economists, design offices and manufacturers - to get to grips with carbon data and make informed decisions on this vital real estate issue.
The simplest solution to the building carbon cost equation
The carbon accounting tool that all building industry players deserve
200+ construction companies trust Vizcab to optimize the carbon impact of their building projects.
Press coverage
Let's co-construct new methods for decarbonizing the building industry
Vizcab helps builders set up their eco-construction projects
Sustainable construction is now on the building industry's statute book. The software developed by Vizcab enables them to make the right choices when it comes to the materials they use.
Experts call for France's environmental regulations to maintain its ambitions
As the French Construction Council (Conseil supérieur de la construction) prepares to issue its opinion on future environmental regulations - an opinion under the influence of numerous federations...
The carbon impact of wood and bio-sourced materials simulated at the design stage
The National Committee for Wood Development and software publisher Vizcab have released the second version of their wood and biobased simulator. It now...
Our team of experts
Vizcab, a human adventure first and foremost
Guillaume, Michel and Thomas are entrepreneurs committed to low-carbon construction.
A shared trajectory of over 15 years, between practice and research, has given rise to their desire to change the world of construction.
our vision
Accelerating the ecological transition of the construction industry
Centralize and control your construction projects' carbon data with our innovative platform. Thanks to our solution integrating machine learning technologies, effectively measure, optimize and manage carbon impact. Take advantage of a decision-support algorithm and proactive alerts based on our 11m datalake for informed choices and easier management of the environmental quality of your projects.
Discover our history through these key periods
Vizcab wins 3rd place in the Construction Startup Competition
Vizcab is a WINNER of the largest startup challenge in the construction industry.
We are #BuildersOfTheFuture, provoking change and lighting the way for industry revolution.
Follow our efforts to win gold at Pitch Day on November 7 at the User Conference. See you in Las Vegas!
Vizcab raises €5m from Kompas KOMPAS VC, Rise PropTech Fund, Cemex Ventures and AlturInvestissment
The French start-up, a pioneer in the decarbonization of the construction industry, boosts its growth with a new €5 million financing round.
This new round of financing brings together the following investment funds: KOMPAS VC, Rise PropTech Fund, Cemex Ventures and Altur Investissment, as well as Vizcab's historic investors: A/O and Banque des Territoires (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts).
Vizcab wins the Urban TechChallengers competition in the "Building for thefuture" category
We're very proud to be finalists in this year's Urban Tech Challengers competition on the theme of "Building for the future".
Urban Tech Challengers is a leading platform dedicated to discovering and supporting innovative tech start-ups that are making a difference in the world. Each year, we host an epic pitch competition for entrepreneurs developing disruptive products and services for sustainable, resilient and future-proof cities.
In our 2023 edition, we're looking for companies that offer impactful, equitable and scalable solutions to the most pressing challenges facing our cities. So, if you'd like to join the ranks of the most ingenious problem solvers, consider applying to the Urban Tech Challengers. With four verticals to choose from - Improving the Living and Working Experience, Optimizing Urban Operations, Building for the Future and Improving Infrastructure - there's something for every start-up.
Plus, you'll have the chance to connect with several venture capitalists, companies and media outlets to help you succeed. So why wait? Apply now and be recognized as a major player in the field!
Launch of Vizcab Analytics
Establish relevant reports and efficiently track your carbon emissions. And share best practices to decarbonize your business and accelerate regulatory reporting (CSRD).
Microsoft Accelerator Winner
At its Envision France innovation event on December 13, Microsoft France unveiled the list of 11 startups selected for the second promotion of the Environmental Startup Accelerator, an ambitious program dedicated to finding solutions for the energy transition, supply chain optimization and the circular economy. We are a winner in the Energy Efficiency category, alongside Geosophy and Meersens.
Launch of our new solution: Explo
A decision-support tool that enables players toinitiate and optimize their carbon strategy right from the sketch or competition phases, when everything is at stake.
A new identity for our hummingbird!
With just a few months to go before #RE2020 comes into force, Vizcab is getting a facelift. Our new brand image is part of a global drive to make LCA more modern, more ambitious and more collaborative.
Vizcab raises €1.6m from Banque des Territoires and A/O Proptech
This round of financing will enable us to accelerate the marketing of our SaaS Building Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) solutions to players committed to the shift towards low-carbon construction.
Combo Solutions becomes Vizcab
Farewell Combo Solutions, long live Vizcab
To make life easier for everyone, we're bringing our corporate and product branding together.
Acceleration and relocation at H7
We are pleased to be among the 45 start-ups accelerating at H7, the French Tech totem in Lyon.
Our commercial acceleration is boosted with leading low-carbon explorers such as Vinci, Icade, 3F, France Habitation...
Winners of Enerj Meeting's Start-up Trophies
Only 9 months after the launch of Combo Solutions, we receive the special E+C- award...
"The jury appreciated the predictive analysis dimension enabled by this comprehensive, interoperable, multi-criteria data-science solution. The software generates tens of thousands of variants to select the most relevant."
We're proud to have been one of the winners of the Start-ups Construction Tech® challenge!
Winners of the Construction Tech® start-up challenge
The Construction Tech Start-ups Challenge, organized by the Batimat trade show, singled out Vizcab as one of the 8 winners from 110 applications!
The jury, a panel of construction experts, highlighted the quality of the winners: "Solutions to facilitate access to and deepen the use of new technologies; more powerful digital analysis tools; responses better adapted to the needs of construction companies; simple and effective innovations; hybridizations and cross-fertilizations of technologies...".
Vizcab beta officially launched!
In January, 15 beta testers joined us as we continued our development.
1 month after the launch of Vizcab beta, we already count nearly
100 users. Thank you for your confidence.
Combo also integrates the ecosystems of Paris&Co and Impulse Partners.
Technology transfer with EPFL
Technology transfer from the research group EPFL Building 2050managed by Thomas Jusselme, our co-founder, and housed at the Smart Living Lab. We would like to thank the project team, including Human-IST UNIFREPFL and EPFL-ECAL Lab, in particular Prof. Lalanne and Dr. Tuor, for their contribution in visualizing the data generated by EPFL. This input was a source of inspiration for the Vizcab interface.
We receive support from the Future Investment Program..
We join UR Link, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield's incubator, and develop Vizcab's MVP.