Project description
Innovative technology for concrete stairs construction
The construction of formwork for staircases is costly and time-intensive, and it generates considerable amounts of timber waste. Today the use of robotics in construction is on the rise offering faster, money-saving and waste-reducing solutions to construction firms. Odico A/S is a pioneer in robotics on an international level and has developed and undertaken over 250 robot manufacturing projects in six countries. The EU-funded SMARTSTAIR project proposes an innovative solution developed by Odico that enables concrete staircase construction 64 times faster than existing technology, significantly reducing costs and waste generation. The solution is a full-feature robot production system that comprises an industrial robot, a proprietary wire-cutting device and an innovative robot control software all assembled in an Internet-of-Things platform.
Objective
Founded in 2012, Odico A/S is an international pioneer in the emerging field of robotics for the construction industry. In 2014, Odico became the first company in the world to produce formwork (i.e. molds for concrete casting) with robotic hotwire cutting and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) blocks for a commercial project the iconic Fjordenhus in Vejle (Denmark) designed by the world-famous artist Olafur Eliasson. We have completed over 250 robot manufacturing projects in 6 countries, including several high-profile construction projects, such as the Opus Dubai building.
Today, producing formworks (i.e. molds) for a typical concrete staircase takes up to 4 person-days. Our SmartStair innovation will do this in under 30 minutes; 64x faster than existing technology. SmartStair is a containerized, full-feature robot production system developed by Odico and currently patent-pending. It replaces non- value-added manual work and enables concrete manufacturers to slash formwork manufacturing costs by up to 88%.
The system comprises a) an industrial robot with b) a proprietary wire-cutting tool, c) groundbreaking robot control software developed by Odico, and, d) all assembled in a containerized Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform. With the easy-to-use SmartStair App for iPad, the concrete pre-manufacturer designs the formwork according to project specifications, in just a few minutes.
SmartStair addresses our customers severe pain points: building formworks for staircases is expensive, time-intensive and generates +100M tons of timber waste annually in Europe alone. The market opportunity is massive. Our Total Addressable Market is 2.13Bn and will reach 2.48Bn by 2026 at a CAGR of 5%. We aim to rapidly penetrate this market by introducing a far superior technology. Through our hardware + software licensing business model, we expect a market share of 1.8% (of Serviceable Available Market), a turnover of 23.5M EBITDA of 6.5M and headcount of 87 people by 2025.
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- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinator
5000 Odense
Denmark
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.