The nominees for the BK-Launch Entrepreneurship Awards 2026 have been selected! From 30 applications, nine ventures have been nominated across three award categories: At-Launch, Post-Launch and The Green Village Award.
The nominated ventures are working on a wide range of challenges in the built environment, from circular construction materials and sustainable infrastructure to digital design tools and water treatment technologies.
On Thursday 19 November, the nine nominees will pitch their ventures during the BK-Launch Entrepreneurship Awards Ceremony at TU Delft, where three winners will be announced.
Meet this year's nominees!
We produce sustainable exterior wall by upcycling excavated soil from the Rotterdam Ground Bank. Our business model combines direct material sales, custom manufacturing contracts, and circular engineering consultancy. By bridging traditional earthen construction with modern structural testing, we deliver commercially viable, climate-adapted building elements that drive the transition toward a circular built environment.
Subnexon sells underwater inspection of infrastructure as service. Preventative inspection (and maintenance) is incredibly hard to do in the Netherlands. Subnexon's added value therefore lies in a stark reduction in maintenance and operation costs for many organisations, such as water boards and construction companies.
Vitruvius Software is creating software tools that help property developers to analyse potential development sites, generate massing plans using AI, and evaluate and compare different designs for their construction cost, revenue and embedded CO2, as well as compliance to building regulations.
InfraBlades gives wind turbine blades a high-value second life as structural elements in civil infrastructure. Instead of shredding and burning the blades – which is costly and is not sustainable – we focus on repurposing complete blades in bridges. In this way, we create durable, sustainable infrastructure, and thereby address the infrastructure replacement challenge.
JiTiBa develops a modular wastewater treatment system using algaepearls. These are small beads that contain living microalgae. After conventional treatment, these algae help remove remaining nitrogen and phosphorus from the water before it is discharged or reused. The system is designed to be added to existing municipal or industrial treatment plants without major changes.
Stadsgrond makes circular building materials from excavated soil and city waste - compressed earth blocks and floors as they share the same raw materials. Blocks (clay binder, crushed waste aggregates) are already in commercial production. Floors, made the same way within 50 km of Rotterdam, are currently pilot-tested at small scale at The Green Village.
© fotograaf, Stadsgrond
GreenTray is a modular, biobased green-roof system designed to maximise ecological and climate value within a low structural load. It combines variable substrate depths, targeted water retention and habitat diversity: deeper zones provide root volume and water storage, while shallower zones reduce weight.
Veenweide Atelier develops a circular reed building system that connects climate-adaptive peatland management with sustainable cultivation and construction. This creates a new value chain in which wetland cultivation provides both ecological and economic value while supplying a locally grown biobased material for the built environment.
Zavhy develops reinforced 3D concrete printing technology for structural construction. Unlike conventional 3D concrete printing, which often remains limited by reinforcement and structural requirements, Zavhy integrates automated concrete printing with reinforcement technologies to enable load-bearing applications.
Curious to learn more about these ventures and the people behind them?
Join us for the BK-Launch Entrepreneurship Awards Ceremony on Thursday 19 November at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft.
All nine nominees will pitch their ventures before the jury, followed by the announcement of the three Award winners. It's an opportunity to discover new ideas, meet entrepreneurs and connect with others interested in entrepreneurship in the built environment.
Thursday 19 November 2026 17:30
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Category: Entrepreneurship Awards