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PlaceChangers Shortlisted for Prestigious "Top 50 Tech Partners" Award

PlaceChangers is proud to announce its nomination for the Top 50 Tech Partners 2026, an industry-led initiative by Build in Digital and UK Construction Week to identify the UK’s most reliable and innovative providers in the wider property and construction technology space.

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PlaceChangers Shortlisted for Prestigious "Top 50 Tech Partners" Award

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Reflections on the DB Mindbox BIM Challenge

Reflections on the DB Mindbox BIM Challenge

Header image Credits: (C) DB AG / Oliver Lang Over the past few weeks, the PlaceChangers team (Seb Weise and Alex Moon) had the opportunity to take part in the DB Mindbox BIM Challenge — an intense, high-speed innovation process hosted by Deutsche Bahn that brought together digital tools, infrastructure, and public engagement. It was an invaluable chance to test ideas, challenge assumptions, and validate the direction of our product development in a real-world, high-stakes setting. The c

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PlaceChangers Joins Deutsche Bahn’s Challenge to Advance BIM-Driven Public Participation

PlaceChangers Joins Deutsche Bahn’s Challenge to Advance BIM-Driven Public Participation

March 2025 – PlaceChangers, a UK-based digital consultation platform, has been selected to participate in Deutsch Bahn’s international challenge focused on Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Public Participation. The challenge is organized and hosted by DB mindbox – Deutsche Bahn’s startup hub and innovation vehicle based in Berlin. This marks a significant step in PlaceChangers’ mission to transform how infrastructure projects engage with communities through real-time, geospatial, and BIM-

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Glen Dyke joins PlaceChangers as Advisor in Australia

Glen Dyke joins PlaceChangers as Advisor in Australia

PlaceChangers, a leading innovator in digital planning and community engagement, has significantly expanded its global footprint by establishing a partnership with Xyst New Zealand. This strategic expansion is marked by the use of PlaceChangers' cutting-edge technology to facilitate community consultations and enhance place analytics, thereby fostering more inclusive and informed planning processes. In a landmark move to be available in the New Zealand market, PlaceChangers has formed a strate

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PlaceChangers now available in New Zealand via award-winning company Xyst

PlaceChangers now available in New Zealand via award-winning company Xyst

PlaceChangers, a leading innovator in digital planning and community engagement, has significantly expanded its global footprint by establishing a partnership with Xyst New Zealand. This strategic expansion is marked by the use of PlaceChangers' cutting-edge technology to facilitate community consultations and enhance place analytics, thereby fostering more inclusive and informed planning processes. In a landmark move to be available in the New Zealand market, PlaceChangers has formed a strate

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PlaceChangers platform wins the Most Innovative Product award at HousingDigital_ 2024

PlaceChangers platform wins the Most Innovative Product award at HousingDigital_ 2024

In a solid testament to innovation and collaborative excellence, PlaceChangers has been awarded the prestigious Housing Digital award for Most Innovative New Product of 2023. The accolade was bestowed upon PlaceChangers for their pioneering approach to connecting tenants and housing associations through their groundbreaking product. The judges were impressed by the submission's strength, highlighting the product's unique capability to help housing associations and their customers collaborativel

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PlaceChangers shortlisted for most innovative new product at Housing Digital

PlaceChangers shortlisted for most innovative new product at Housing Digital

PlaceChangers has been shortlisted for most innovative new product at the HousingDigital Awards 2024. The PlaceChangers platform is powered by an innovative geospatial engine which enables housing organisations to digitise project-related asset data and enrich their engagement projects with place-based open data and resident feedback. This enables owners to move projects ahead faster while prioritising needs and engaging tenants throughout the property planning process. The PlaceChangers engag

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PlaceChangers shortlisted at the 2023 Startup Awards

PlaceChangers shortlisted at the 2023 Startup Awards

North East based PropTech startup PlaceChangers is shortlisted in three categories for this year's UK PropTech Awards. PlaceChangers is nominated for the Collaboration of the Year Award, Best Use of Data (PropTech) while Sebastian Weise, founder at PlaceChangers, has been shortlisted for the PropTech Advocate category. The UK PropTech Awards have been running since 2019 and are fast becoming a prestigious award for the UK community of companies and professionals accelerating the digitisation of

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PlaceChangers to help decarbonisation of housing as part of Challenge North Tyne programme

PlaceChangers to help decarbonisation of housing as part of Challenge North Tyne programme

PlaceChangers has been selected for the Challenge North Tyne Accelerator Programme with a proposal to help decarbonisation of North East housing. This R&D project will involve two workshops, prototyping, and technical development resulting in a place analytics tool, designed to analyse the energy efficiency of existing homes and provide insights for neighborhood-scale retrofit program strategies. The project will built on PlaceChangers' Site Insights tool, which enables planners to analyse p

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Triple shortlisting for PlaceChangers at the 2022 PropTech Awards

Triple shortlisting for PlaceChangers at the 2022 PropTech Awards

North East based PropTech startup PlaceChangers is shortlisted in three categories for this year's UK PropTech Awards. PlaceChangers is nominated for the Collaboration of the Year Award, Best Use of Data (PropTech) while Sebastian Weise, founder at PlaceChangers, has been shortlisted for the PropTech Advocate category. The UK PropTech Awards have been running since 2019 and are fast becoming a prestigious award for the UK community of companies and professionals accelerating the digitisation of

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PlaceChangers generates jobs in the North East

North East based PropTech startup PlaceChangers saw its revenues grow substantially over the past 12 month. The business growth followed increased visibility through a series of award successes and new client projects in the UK and Ireland. The company now continues to generate employment in the North East tech sector with the recruitment of it's first full-time staff. North East a hot bed of proptech success Activity in the proptech space in the North East has been accelerating. The region i

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PlaceChangers wins 2021 RTPI NE Chair’s Award for Planning Excellence

PlaceChangers wins 2021 RTPI NE Chair’s Award for Planning Excellence

PlaceChangers ends the year 2021 with a series of award successes. The company had been nominated as finalist for three awards this year. This includes a nomination as Innovator of the Year at the Dynamite Awards 2021, the premier Awards for the digital sector in the North East. PlaceChangers was also runner up for a GBEA Award as 'Disrupter of the Year'. RTPI award success PlaceChangers won the RTPI NE Chair’s Award at the 2021 Royal Town Planning Institute’s Awards for Planning Excellence

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PlaceChangers shortlisted as a Finalist at the 2021 RTPI Awards

PlaceChangers shortlisted as a Finalist at the 2021 RTPI Awards

PlaceChangers is a Finalist for the Chair’s Award at the 2021 Royal Town Planning Institute’s Awards for Planning Excellence. This year’s Chair's Award at the RTPI Awards will recognise planning teams, organisations or individuals who have been innovative during the Covid 19 pandemic to deliver tasks/projects to the highest standards and continued to engage with local communities. Being selected as a finalist at the 2021 RTPI Awards is a validation of PlaceChangers’ vision which is focused on p

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