GenieBelt and REHAU to revolutionise the global materials market

  COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - 08/22/2018 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

Leading materials provider REHAU forms collaboration with construction software provider GenieBelt to solve today’s biggest challenges in the construction industry:  Money and time.  REHAU will provide their customers around the world with an innovative project management portal powered by GenieBelt. This cutting-edge digital solution will help them coordinate project activities and build better.

Every main contractor faces similar challenges when managing construction projects: They have to make sure that they stay on budget and finish the project on time while managing multiple subcontractors. A lot of time and money is wasted trying to get status updates and communicating changes to the schedule. 

In order to provide a solution to this problem, GenieBelt and UNLIMITED X, the innovation lab of the REHAU Group, have established a cooperation. Together, they will offer the REHAU project portal, a tool allowing to monitor the status of a construction in real-time and to communicate with all subcontractors and stakeholders with one click from any device. 

Danish startup GenieBelt has the vision to transform the construction industry and expects this cooperation to be very successful: “We have the innovative real-time project communication and collaboration software, REHAU has a lot of know-how and experience in the construction industry. Both companies want to set a new market standard for communication and collaboration on construction projects. We can see the enormous potential in improving the way projects are managed day-to-day to eliminate time waste, miscommunications and delays.”, says GenieBelt CEO Ulrik Branner.

For REHAU, this cooperation is an opportunity to offer a new digital product to customers. “It is our mission to excite our end customers through new digital solutions. Together with GenieBelt, we have adapted the software to perfectly suit our customers’ needs and to offer them additional value to our existing products. We are happy to work with GenieBelt to transform the construction industry”, Stefan Thomas, CDO REHAU and Managing Director UNLIMITED X, states.

REHAU was founded in 1948 in Bavaria, Germany. The company, which provides polymer-based solutions to construction, automotive and industry is represented in 54 countries. GenieBelt, founded in 2013, is a Danish tech startup offering a unique way to bring project schedules to life and get real-time insight into problems and progress.

“REHAU is a major global player with 20,000 employees in more than 170 locations across 6 continents. At GenieBelt, we work every day to transform the way we communicate and collaborate in construction and working with REHAU will significantly boost that”, says Ulrik Branner.

REHAU’s customers will be introduced to the new project portal this month.

About REHAU

Polymer specialist REHAU makes sustainable contributions for the ecological and economic challenges of tomorrow. Around 20,000 highly qualified employees all over the world are committed to this. For almost 70 years, outstanding innovations, the latest production technologies and flexible logistics have made the independent family company a forward-looking and reliable partner with expertise for almost all economic sectors. Focal topics are mobility, energy-efficient construction, the use of renewable energies, future living and water management. For more information, visit www.rehau.com.

About GenieBelt

GenieBelt provides real-time project collaboration and communications software to construction projects of any size around the world. The Danish startup aims to transform the way the construction industry communicates, coordinates and builds to help the industry reap the benefits of higher efficiency and less waste. The cloud-based GenieBelt platform improves collaboration between teams, makes it easy to identify where problems originate and to make better decisions with data that can be trusted. GenieBelt is used on more than 20,000 projects in 30+ countries. For more information, visit www.geniebelt.com.