New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Concept category

Identify the award category for which this concept is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
elina@cubed.lv

Basic information
Concept title
Real estate development platform Cubed

Full Concept Title
Cubed - a real estate platform empowering people to design and buy custom sustainable homes.

Please provide a short, catchy description of your concept to be used in communication towards the public
We help people to design and build sustainable community developed dream homes. Our innovative tools empower people to create custom condos that're environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient, all while saving money on energy costs. Experience the future of real estate with us today.

What was the geographical scope of your concept?
Local

Where was your concept implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Latvia

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your concept address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your concept refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)

Has your concept benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
Yes

Which fund(s)?
LIAA (Investment and Development Agency of Latvia) - 2022

Has your concept won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Cubed
  Type of organisation: For-profit company
  First name of representative: Elina
  Last name of representative: Dzene
  Age: 26
  Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
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  By ticking this box, I certify that the information regarding my age is factually correct. : Yes
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Latvia
  Function: Latvian
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Lapu iela 19 - 2A
  Town: Rīga
  Postal code: LV-1002
  Country: Latvia
  Direct Tel: +371 29 322 678
  E-mail: elina@cubed.lv
  Website: https://cubed.lv/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cubed/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): Linkedin
- URL: https://www.facebook.com/Cubedplatform
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): Facebook
In case my concept is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my concept in the channels of the European Commission
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the concept
Please provide a summary of your concept.
We are a platform that connects land owners, real estate developers, factories, and buyers who can customize their condo layout and building amenities.

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with 5 key words.
Community

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Customization

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Self-service

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Prefabricated

Please indicate the main themes of your concept with key words
Sustainable

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
1) CUBED is an on-demand multi-story apartment building platform that connects end client needs with prefabrication supply;

2) Educating clients about the impact their decisions have on sustainability as a part of the sales process, will facilitate a higher quality of living and limit carbon footprint. 3) More efficient management & materials used during the design process and across all building life cycles will lower the costs of building management.

4) Improved supply chain with better information exchange between the assembly, production, and the end client.

5) For renovations would be recreated, prefabricated and sustainable facades, which would respect the historical value.

6) The platform will empower collective decision-making by involving individuals in collaborative decision-making, this will result in better community integration and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive community.

7) The supply chain would be controlled to use sustainable materials, technologies and processes, that would result in CO2 footprint reduction at scale.

8) Most sustainable square meter is the meter that isn't built or heated, our smart building has the least unused square meters per living square meters.

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
Our solution will facilitate the residents to see benefits beyond the emotional attachment of current living space by visually displaying their next home.
The demand for sustainable buildings will increase based on economic drivers as well as comfort and accessibility. The unique value of our solution enables a guided process flow to ensure transparency for homeowners. Our goal of the platform is to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the renovation process and new residential real estate development through earlier and closer cooperation with the end-users.

Please give information about the key objectives of your concept in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the concept can be exemplary in this context.
We want to design a system where people with 100% certainty can design, buy buildings before they are built. By doing that we would have created a system that would support long term thinking in the decision making process and practice inclusion by allowing each community member to have a say in what environment he would like to live in.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the concept and civil society have been / will be involved in the concept and what has been / will be the impact of this involvement on the concept.
Sustainability is part of CUBED’s mission and the activities of the platform demonstrate a focus to impact all stages of the building's lifecycle. The platform features dynamic energy system scoping for the whole building and includes sustainability reports based on design & layout. This is achieved by an automated co-design process that introduces embedded energy system requirements for each of the apartments. Our frontier knowledge of wood-structure buildings, insulation materials, and design rule check will limit carbon footprint compared to buildings based on conventional concrete materials. The platforms will also feature retrofitting layers to renovation projects with the use of prefabricated facade modules. The expected result will provide an overall Co2 footprint regarding each client’s decisions as well as model Co2 footprint for the whole building.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and development of the concept. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was
Factories, Real Estate Developers, Buyers, Investors, Banks, Architects, Interior designers, Realtors/real estate Agents, and municipalities were interviewed and we built a solid knowledge foundation about key problems in residential real estate development. Thanks to municipalities we allocated the most important regions which are missing new condos and what are key uncertainties for development in main cities. As for other participants, we concluded the problems of customer flow and communication process between different involved units.

Please explain which disciplines and / or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and development of your concept. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Factories, Real Estate Developers, Buyers, Investors, Banks, Architects, Interior designers, Realtors/real estate Agents, and municipalities, each of mentioned participants involved in sharing their experience about the work process in new real estate development practice. Based on the information that we received from the involved parties we have built MVP solution for the problems that arise for the mentioned parties in real estate development.

Please explain the innovative character of your concept when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the concept.
We offer personalization as a more efficient way for building buildings instead of standardization.

- In the calculation we need to take in Social Value created.
- All the waste that is created by building stuff that people don't need and don't want to pay for.
- Long Term benefits.

Please which elements of your concept could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
Our concept could be replicated in any real estate development project, not just buildings, but also infrastructure, commerce projects, city development, and even climate change projects.

Our softer when completely finished will be a negotiation tool for stakeholders to come to terms on how the project should be made.

Group/stakeholder decision making is made easy. By digitizing the decision making process.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the concept addresses by providing local solutions
Each market we will enter we always will need a strong partner dealing with changes in local building regulations and getting approvals from municipalities to start construction.

Please attach the development plan of your concept. This plan should detail the plans you have for the further development and implementation of your concept, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application. The plan should also include envisaged results and benefits from the concept for direct and indirect beneficiaries. The results and benefits should be specified in relation to the objectives of the concept, and to what is expected in the context of the respective category

Development plan - Cubed.pdf
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Yes

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Yes

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Yes

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By submitting your application, you understand that all the applications that meet the eligibility requirements will be shared for the purposes of the selection processes, and notably published on the secured platform prizes.new-european-bauhaus.eu and for the purposes of the promotion of these on the New European Bauhaus website and/or other European Commission communication channels. In this sense, the applications would be widely available. Applicants should ensure that they present their concepts, concepts, in such a way that they could be shared without giving rise to intellectual property related concerns. If your submission is selected as one of the finalists, it will additionally be shared for the purpose of the public vote that will take place. The European Union is granted a licence to use and share your application with the general public and the official external experts for the purposes of the selection process, including the voting. The European Union has the right to use the images and visual materials and the description provided in the application for communication purposes related to the contest and beyond. Rights granted comprise the right to store, reproduce, display, publish and communicate or distribute copies in electronic or digital format, including, but not only, through the internet. Unless you have disclosed your name, the European Commission has no obligation to share your name when using or disseminating your contribution to the public. The European Union cannot be held responsible in case any submitted concept, concept is found to infringe third party’s rights. The European Union shall be neither responsible for the use that third parties may do of the applications or related content.
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By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you read and understand that the ‘Guide to Applicants’ of the NEB Prizes 2023, available online in the website of the NEB Prizes 2023, is an integral part of this application form and that it must therefore be observed when completing and submitting your application.
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