Emporis.com (spoken "Emporis-dot-com") is a large and free-to-use website about buildings. Here you can find any structure, from a hut to a skyscraper, in more than 60,000 cities worldwide. Our audience consists of professionals from the building industry and people with an interest in buildings. The roots of Emporis.com go back eight years from now when the website was started. Since then, we have become the world's biggest public source for building information. However, the content displayed is just a small part of the vast amount of information which is available in the database. The focus of our work is the full life cycle of a building. That's why you find on Emporis.com buildings from over one hundred years ago to futuristic properties planned for 2020 and beyond. The database features all imaginable construction types and usages: office buildings, hotels, towers, metro stations, tunnels, schools, stadiums, police stations, bridges, to name just a few. The data comes from a variety of sources such as data researchers, building-related companies, the public audience, vendors, and last, but not least, an editorial community. These involved contributors are located in every part of the world and add to the great success of the Emporis platforms. As a result Emporis.com grows on a 24/7 basis virtually every second, mostly unnoticed by the public audience.

About Emporis

Emporis.com is maintained by Emporis, a global building information company. Emporis is the leading company for building data on a worldwide basis. Emporis has defined more than 1,000 data standards on how to treat building data. The company offers its products to many companies from the building industry in any region of the world. The building industry compromises of companies who act in architectural design, engineering, construction, real estate, insurance underwriting, banking, building product manufacturing, telecommunication, to name just a few.

Emporis Network

The Emporis Network is the name of a conglomerate of websites which are managed by Emporis. Emporis.com is one of these platforms. Each platform has a different focus, but they all deal with building information in some way:

Emporis.com - Publicly available database of building data. (this platform)
Emporis Admin - Building-related companies can submit/manage content here.
Emporis Awards - Our architectural recognitions presented each year.
Emporis Community - Internal website for the editorial community.
Emporis Corporate - Products and solutions offered by Emporis.
Emporis Maps - Locate buildings throughout the world on maps.
Emporis Research - Subscription to analyze the building industry.
Emporis Standards - Definitions of building-related information.

Using these platforms, Emporis wants to create the world's biggest and best database about buildings. The goal is to make building data universally accessible and useful for any appliance.