Emporis

Emporis
Type GmbH
Industry Real estate information
Headquarters Frankfurt, Germany
Products Real estate information products
Website www.emporis.com

Emporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The company collects and publishes data and photographs of buildings worldwide.

Emporis offers a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com, located at www.emporis.com.[1] Emporis is cited relatively frequently by various media sources as an authority on building data.[2]

Emporis used to focus on high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in the past, which it defines as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively.[3] Today the number of low-rise buildings and other structures on Emporis exceeds the number of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers by far.[4]

History

Michael Wutzke started a website about skyscrapers in Frankfurt in 1996. In 2000 he started skyscrapers.com which was folded into Emporis.[5]

In 2000 a group of Emporis senior editors began presenting the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Eligible buildings are selected from a list of all buildings in the world at least 100 meters tall which were completed that year.[6]

In 2004 Stephan R. Boehm, who according to the company's website is a "serial entrepreneur", assumed the role of Chairman. Wutzke remains Chief Technology Officer and is managing director.[7]

In 2005 Emporis formed a partnership with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), under which Emporis serves as the official CTBUH high-rise buildings database.[8]

In 2007 venture capital firm Neuhaus Partners and KfW Bankengruppe invested several million Euro in the company.[9]

Effective January 1, 2009, the company moved its headquarters from Darmstadt to Frankfurt.[10]

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