Mills & Reeve agrees bespoke package with PlaceTech

Matterport is due to go public in a massive $2.9bn deal this year. Taking a brief break from the mission to digitalise the entire built environment, James Morris-Manuel, MD of EMEA at Matterport, speaks to Karl Tomusk about what lies ahead.

Global architecture practice Gensler has set out its top four trends that are shaping urban design, public policy, and community voices this year.

Jim Eaton-Terry is developer Quintain’s first chief technology officer. After years at airline FlyBe, shoe retailer Clarks and hotel chain Premier Inn, he is now helping turn 85-acre Wembley Park into a residential project with tech at its core.

Dutch modular specialist Jan Snel has launched in the UK after being acquired by Japanese housebuilder Daiwa House Group.

One hundred and thirty-six startups were acquired in the last three years, which is the highest level of consolidation in the past decade, accounting for 72% of the total, according to a study by analyst Memoori.

Employee experience can rarely have been so under the spotlight as right now. Leesman is the expert, after more than a decade spent regularly gathering data from hundreds of thousands of respondents at companies large and small around the globe.

Nuuka, a Finnish proptech software company, has joined the Real Estate Core Consortium of companies and academics targeting the emerging market for connected buildings.

We know the statistic that the built environment is responsible for 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, writes Reza Alaghehband of Envio Systems. But did you know that during the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a 7% decrease in global CO2 emissions when compared to 2019?

PlaceTech has published its 2021 media pack setting out its extensive marketing and consultancy services, including bespoke packages, online event hosting and campaign planning.