How Sidewalk Labs makes green development affordable

Autonomous HVAC systems and software to eliminate wasted energy in buildings are two ideas that will take centre stage at a startup challenge at COP26.

Asset management software startup PropFolio has beaten off competition from more established rivals to win financial backing from adviser Arcadis and new business from developer Allied London.

Coming out of the depths of the pandemic, our towns and cities have started to bounce back – but the level of recovery has varied from place to place. PlaceTech rounds up six data dashboards from around the world to help you visualise footfall, economic activity and other metrics.

We round up some of the booking services that make navigating the vast ocean of flexible workspace painless.

In the fastest recruitment of anchor participants in its accelerator’s history, MetaProp has chosen three startups from within the co-working, construction and residential property management sectors.

The inventor of a smart bike light that collects data about near miss hotspots is among the six startups in Geovation’s latest accelerator programme.

From recycling carbon into concrete to molecular-level air purifiers, innovations from the first Clean Fight accelerator programme have ambitions to clean buildings in New York and beyond.

With the project now live, PlaceTech caught up with Bogdan Nicoara, CEO and co-founder of Bright Spaces, and Oliver Moorhouse, director of Moorland Property Solutions.

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.