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The metropolitan region of Hamburg brings together multiple stakeholders along the value chain of planning, constructing, and managing smart buildings, cities and infrastructures. Hamburg is a top-ranking smart city in Germany, having a dedicated state- and city administration that pro-actively fosters digitalization efforts on all levels. It is a vibrant place for cutting edge research and innovation with institutions like HCU or TU Hamburg, who investigate new tools and technologies like BIM, GIS, or digital twins. With a strong application focus, the researchers work in close cooperation with local city administrations but also project partners worldwide.  Hamburg boasts the largest urban construction in Europe – the HafenCity, which forms a testground for groundbreaking experiments in planning and building. Here cutting-edge experiments are being carried in fields like new construction technologies, sustainable building, construction management, or new intelligent materials. Further innovation-driven urban construction projects are the Kleiner Grasbrook or the Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. Hamburg boasts a thriving startup-ecosystem which will be further boosted by ongoing efforts to establish a large-scale startup factory in the field of green technologies.