How LandTech plans to fix slow, inefficient development

Responding to the sector’s notoriously slow payments, construction management software provider Procore has agreed to acquire Levelset for $500m.

Modular housing developer ilke Homes is eyeing a pipeline of 10,000 factory-built homes over the next five years after securing £60m in new funding from Homes England and several other investors.

Construction’s long battle with stagnating productivity growth was the driving force behind startup Saqara’s recent $10.6m Series A fundraise.

The global property investor has partnered with Google to tackle what it calls “the greatest need and the greatest opportunity in addressing our future”.

Digital transformation and pathways to net zero were front and centre at this year's annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

The construction technology provider has appointed Richard Longdon, the long-serving CEO of FTSE 250 tech company AVEVA, as non-executive chairman.

Metaprop portfolio company Urbint has raised $60m in Series C funding as it develops tools to prevent and stop threats to infrastructure and workers.

Harri Majala, CEO and founder of GBuilder, a BIM-compatible collaboration platform for property developers and construction companies based in Finland, speaks to Paul Unger.

Construction startup Buildots has raised $30m in Series B funding as it expands its smart hardhat technology to a dozen countries.

Willmott Dixon’s digital construction platform Collida has signed a five-year partnership with Architype, the net-zero architect.

Developers over the last year have promoted a growing number of schemes that are ‘net zero carbon-ready’. But what does that term actually mean?