The former New Homes Director of Zoopla Property Group, Chris Browne has joined the Finnish ConTech company GBuilder to offer his expertise on the expanding UK market.

GBuilder has brought a modern, digitalised, and more efficient way of working to residential developers and house-builders in the UK market. Their ground breaking one solution platform and the real-time use of BIM-based information benefits all stakeholders at every stage of the homebuilding process, as already demonstrated in other European markets.

“Our team has the world leading knowledge of the digital customer journey and material management, learned from the years of dedication and hard work”, says Harri Majala, the CEO of GBuilder. “We are a team of highly skilled professionals working towards the shared vision. Chris Browne, with his expertise on the UK market, is a great addition to our excellent team. It is time to take on the UK market with full force.”

“This really is the right place and the right time for GBuilder. The digitalisation of the UK housebuilding industry is accelerating fast”, says Chris Browne. “As soon as I was shown the GBuilder proposition, I was excited to be involved in launching the BIM based platform to the UK market. I keep in close contact with the ever changing UK residential market and I have seen nothing to compete with a service we at GBuilder offer the New Homes industry.”

‍About Chris Browne

‍Chris Browne has 40 years experience in residential sales and New Homes, and more recently he has been working as a consultant into the New Homes industry. As well as Zoopla Chris experience gained from working with UK national house builders direct, residential agency and advisory roles into the prop tech industry in the UK.

‍About GBuilder

‍GBuilder is a BIM-compatible customer journey management platform for property developers and construction companies to manage customer-related tasks, material choices and options, configurations with 3D & VR visualisations, change requests, communication, documentation and much more. With over 40.000 housing units built through GBuilder’s platform, the software is already widely used by Scandinavia’s largest residential developers and construction companies, such as YIT, Bonava, Skanska, and Hartela. There are already ongoing projects in the UK and in other countries, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Baltics.