This week’s Demo Drop focuses on a member of the FormWorks Lab Cohort, Automatic Construction. Alex Bell, co-founder and CEO of Automatic Construction delivered his pitch to a panel of venture experts as well as the entire conference of industry leaders and executives. This was the culmination of the accelerator program developed between Brick and Mortar Ventures and BuiltWorlds which was announced at the beginning of the Summer at the Americas Summit, in Paris. The cohort was made up of five capable startups: Automatic Construction, Buildpeer, Multipliciti, Nickel, and Simple Construction.
Automatic Construction makes Inflatable Flexible Factory Formwork (IFFF) that is delivered to construction sites as a complete unit with reinforcement already in place. Construction pumps raise the building floor by floor and concrete pumps fill the forms with regular SCC concrete. The results are the same IBC code approved building superstructures that are most prevalent in worldwide and western urban construction at currently 1/5th (and eventually 1/10th) the cost of conventional construction. Automatic Construction is currently experimenting with a CO2 sequestering aircrete mix that because of the airtight nature of their forms can sequester net CO2. Automatic Construction currently works with residential homes and ADU,…