VAULTED

What VAULTED does

VAULTED AG is a Swiss construction technology company that develops and sells prefabricated, unreinforced concrete floor systems based on arched (vaulted) geometry. The company's flagship product, the Rippmann Floor System (RFS), is built on more than 15 years of structural engineering research conducted at ETH Zurich. The system replaces the conventional "brute force" mass approach with optimized geometry: its arched form carries loads through compression, eliminating the need for embedded steel reinforcement and reducing concrete consumption to approximately one-third and steel consumption to approximately one-tenth of conventional slabs. The company claims embodied carbon reductions of up to 75% versus conventional concrete floors, and elements are designed for disassembly and reuse at end of building life.

The go-to-market is enterprise-focused and project-based. VAULTED targets architects, structural engineers, contractors, and developers through direct consultation, stakeholder-specific landing pages, and a portfolio of reference projects. A proprietary digital platform translates complex arched geometry into buildable, compliant, and installable structural systems, supporting the full project value chain from design through installation. Revenue is generated through hardware sales of prefabricated RFS elements manufactured in a controlled factory environment and shipped to construction sites; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.

VAULTED is privately held, headquartered in Dübendorf, Switzerland, and was co-founded by Prof. Dr. Philippe Block of ETH Zurich, who serves as Chairman. The company lists five reference projects spanning Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, indicating early commercial traction across continental Europe. Headcount is 1–10 employees, the company was founded in 2023, and no external funding, partnerships, acquisitions, or awards are disclosed in the source material.

Name

VAULTED

Legal name

VAULTED AG

Website

https://vaulted-floors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

VAULTED AG is a Swiss construction technology company that sells the Rippmann Floor System, a prefabricated unreinforced concrete floor using arched geometry that cuts concrete and steel use, serving architects, engineers, contractors, and developers on commercial building projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Floor Systems

NAICS

Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing (327331)

SIC

Concrete Products, Except Block & Brick (3272)

akta.pro primary industry

Drywall, Partitions & Suspended Ceilings (IMAFANAG)

Keywords

• Prefabricated floor systems
• Low-carbon concrete floors
• Structural floor technology
• Circular construction materials
• Computational structural design

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Prefabricated Floor System Sales: VAULTED sells prefabricated Rippmann Floor System (RFS) elements as the primary product. These are manufactured in a controlled factory environment and supplied for installation in construction projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

VAULTED AG manufactures and supplies the Rippmann Floor System (RFS), a prefabricated, unreinforced concrete floor system that uses arched geometry to carry loads through compression rather than mass. The company supports architects, engineers, contractors, and developers with a proprietary digital platform that makes complex arched geometry practical to design, produce, transport, and integrate into construction projects. Elements are factory-prefabricated and engineered for circular reuse at end of building life.

Product overview

VAULTED AG offers a single core product, the Rippmann Floor System (RFS), a low-carbon structural floor system designed for material efficiency, circularity, and digital construction. The RFS is a prefabricated, unreinforced concrete floor system that replaces mass with optimized geometry, inspired by Gothic cathedral construction and based on more than 15 years of ETH Zurich research. The company also provides a proprietary digital platform that enables complex arched geometry to be designed, produced, transported, and integrated into real construction projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rippmann Floor System (RFS)

Quantifiable outcome

• Embodied carbon emissions reduced by up to 75%
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Skanska: Skanska is a major international construction and project development company with strong sustainability commitments and growing use of prefabrication and low-carbon concrete. They represent the type of large incumbent VAULTED must partner with or displace to scale adoption of RFS.
• Heidelberg Materials: Heidelberg Materials is a global cement and aggregates producer actively developing low-carbon cementitious products (e.g., evoBuild). They overlap with VAULTED on the demand driver of embodied-carbon reduction but operate in commodity materials rather than prefabricated structural systems.
• Bouygues Construction: Bouygues Construction is a major European general contractor investing in low-carbon construction methods and prefabrication. They overlap with VAULTED in serving European sustainable building projects and could be either a customer-channel partner or a competitive incumbent for low-carbon structural systems.
• CRH plc: CRH is one of the largest global building materials groups with vertically integrated cement, aggregate, and concrete operations and a sustainability roadmap for lower-carbon products. They sit in the same broad value chain as VAULTED but on the materials-supply side rather than prefabricated systems.
• Holcim: Holcim is one of the world's largest building materials companies, with a strong strategic push into low-carbon and circular construction solutions including reduced-clinker cements and ECOPact concrete. They compete broadly with VAULTED in the low-carbon structural materials space but at much greater scale and with a far wider product portfolio.
• Laing O'Rourke: Laing O'Rourke is a major UK-based engineering and construction firm known for off-site prefabrication and modern methods of construction, including precast concrete. Their prefab concrete operations address the same buyer need as RFS - faster, higher-quality structural delivery - but at far larger scale and broader scope.

Emerging players

• Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings uses 3D printing and factory-based prefabrication to produce low-carbon building components and homes. They share VAULTED's emphasis on material efficiency, factory production, and digital design-to-fabrication workflows, though operating with different materials and a more consumer-facing model.
• ICON: ICON develops large-scale 3D printing technology for buildings and has delivered affordable and disaster-relief housing projects. Like VAULTED, they pursue innovative, lower-carbon construction methods via digital design and factory-based production, but focus on walls rather than floor systems.

Direct peers

• CarbonCure Technologies: CarbonCure provides technology that injects CO2 into concrete mixes to reduce embodied carbon. While their mechanism (chemical CO2 sequestration) differs from VAULTED's geometric optimization, both companies directly target the same buyer pain point - reducing the carbon footprint of concrete structural elements.
• CREE Buildings: CREE Buildings develops prefabricated timber-concrete hybrid floor and wall systems for sustainable construction. Like VAULTED, they focus on innovative, prefabricated structural components that materially reduce embodied carbon and target architects and developers seeking differentiated, low-carbon buildings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vaulted-floors

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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