The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 11th that it will host the '2025 Smart Construction Challenge' to discover and activate advanced smart construction technologies that will lead innovation in the construction industry.
The Smart Construction Challenge is an event organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in which relevant public institutions share roles and oversee competitions across five fields: safety management, dwellings, roads, railways, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). This is the 6th edition of the challenge.
In each field, one team will receive the Grand Innovation Award (cash prize of 30 million won, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award), and three teams will receive the Public Institution Head Award (cash prize of 10 million won), for a total prize pool of 300 million won.
The competition theme for the safety management field is smart safety management technologies that can prevent worker fall accidents at construction sites and facility maintenance.
The dwellings field will focus on competitions centered around AI-based smart construction technologies aimed at improving productivity and ensuring quality and safety.
The road sector focuses on prefabrication methods for implementing manufacturing and automation in the construction industry along with smart construction equipment technology (Machine Guidance·Machine Control), while the railway field centers on smart construction technologies specialized for railways such as AI and big data. The BIM field will conduct the challenge based on BIM application technologies for building construction.
Technologies that receive the Grand Innovation Award will be broadly supported to ensure excellent technologies can be utilized, such as receiving bonus points when selecting smart construction small and medium enterprises, prioritized support for field technology verification, and support for opening sales channels in public institutions.
Technologies that win awards in this challenge will be exhibited at the '2025 Smart Construction Expo (EXPO)' to be held from November 5 to 7 at KINTEX in Ilsan, where they will be introduced to interested industry officials and the general public.
Corporations wishing to participate in the Smart Construction Challenge must download the application form from the Smart Construction Challenge homepage by the 29th of this month, complete it, and submit it via email.
Kim Tae-byeong, Director of Technology Safety Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, 'Smart construction is an essential element for the safety, quality, and productivity of our construction industry,' and noted, 'We hope to discover creative ideas through public participation and look forward to the participation of many corporations with excellent smart construction technologies in this challenge.'