Hoban Construction Presents Industrial Accident Prevention Task at 'Daestar Problem Solver Platform' Contest
Hoban Construction collaborates with startups to work on industrial accident prevention.
Recently, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry) announced four tasks in the field of industrial accident prevention for the ‘Daesta Solver Platform,’ a contest where large corporations propose challenges and startups provide solutions.
The Ministry’s Daesta Solver Platform means that “startups act as solvers for challenges that large corporations and others have not been able to resolve.” The government plays a bridging role connecting large corporations with external startups.
Hoban Construction, which has consistently strived for safety management, proposed industrial accident prevention at construction sites as a task. Hoban Construction requested the development of services to eliminate blind spots in safety management at construction sites and improve worker safety. Accordingly, startups must devise ways to enhance safety management by tracking workers in hazardous areas of construction sites to provide warnings, monitoring, and other safety measures.
The contest proceeds through three evaluation stages. The first stage is a document review, selecting about 20 startups based on criteria such as △idea △innovation △creativity. In the second stage, a face-to-face evaluation will focus on task suitability and technical feasibility, selecting about 15 startups by September. The final third stage grants approximately two months to refine the task, during which startups receive mentoring from demand companies and experts, followed by a pitching evaluation scheduled for November.
Selected startups will receive benefits such as △commercialization funds (up to 100 million KRW) △technology special guarantees (up to 2 billion KRW) △preferential support for strategic projects (up to 2 years and 400 million KRW) or stepping stone projects (up to 1 year and 150 million KRW) under the Startup Growth Technology Development (R&D) program.
The Ministry stated, “The tasks announced this time are meaningful in applying key technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution to industrial accident prevention, reducing fatal accidents in industrial sites.” It added, “Startups are expected to lay the foundation for growth through collaboration with leading domestic and international companies.”
Meanwhile, Hoban Construction is known to be the most active in collaborating with startups in the construction industry. In 2019, Hoban Construction became the first domestic construction company to establish an accelerator corporation, ‘Plan H Ventures,’ expanding investment and collaboration with startups.
Within just over two years since its establishment, Plan H Ventures has discovered 16 startups. It continues collaboration in various fields with companies such as the urban smart farm company ‘Seseul Primus,’ facial recognition-based security solution provider ‘CVT,’ digital twin technology firm ‘Pluxity,’ and proptech companies ‘Ten Eleven’ and ‘Jiin Plus.’
Last year, Hoban Construction established an open innovation department within the company and is actively adopting technologies from ventures, SMEs, and startups.
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