WEMAINTAIN CONSTRUCTION
E S C A L AT I N G SMART CITIES WeMaintain is the Proptech start-up who has just entered the Singapore market. Co-Founder and COO Jade Francine, explores disrupting the industry and enabling the Smart Cities of tomorrow Writer: Phoebe Harper
Singapore has one of the most sophisticated built environments in the world, with almost 9,500 high-rise buildings served by ultra-modern infrastructure.” Southeast Asia is widely tipped as the global hub for the future of the Proptech industry. Increased investments in infrastructure throughout the region combined with growing population levels rising in alignment with economic performance merge to create a region that is ripe to support the cities of the future within an explosive sector. WeMaintain is the innovative Proptech company fuelling the development of Smart Cities across the world, inspiring a holistic way of working between modern technologies and the engineers behind their operation. Breathing new technology into old buildings is at the core of WeMaintain. The greatest example of this is how the company weaves the internet of things (IoT) into infrastructure, thereby placing data analysis and 12 | APAC Outlook issue 54
intuitive maintenance at the very heart of their design. Notable examples in the WeMaintain portfolio include the Docklands Light Railway, WeWork and Workspace offices. WeMaintain has most recently added an office in Singapore to its global footprint, in addition to a presence in both Paris and London. Now, Asia has become WeMaintain’s latest playground, with Singapore
as the very nexus of this dynamic growth. With IoT hardware driving data collection, supported by cloud-based proprietary technology, WeMaintain specialises in elevator and escalator solutions for both commercial and residential real estate. The company’s offering enables an end-to-end solution for critical maintenance for both operators and asset owners.
