Emporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, 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, also low-rise buildings and other structures are part of the database.

History[link]

Michael Wutzke started a website about skyscrapers in Frankfurt in 1996. In 2000 he started skyscrapers.com which was folded into Emporis in 2003.^[4]

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.^[5]

In 2004, Stephan R. Boehm assumed the role of Chairman. Wutzke was Chief Technology Officer and managing director until 2010, when he left the company of his own free will. Since then, Daniel Grözinger and Sven Schmidt are managing director at Emporis^[6]

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.^[7]

In 2007 venture capital firm Neuhaus Partners and KfW Bankengruppe invested several million Euro in the company.^[8]

Effective January 1, 2009, the company moved its headquarters from Darmstadt to Frankfurt. In 2011, the company moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Emporis.com
• Emporis Corporate Website
• Emporis Community
• Emporis Awards
• Emporis Standards
• Emporis Research