How Disruptive secures its sensors against hackers

The British developer is to build 347 homes as part of a £55m residential project in Merseyside. The number of homes more than doubles the total amount of modular units Urban Splash has built to date.

Due for completion in 2020, the Nexus International School, located in Aljunied, central Singapore, is bringing tech to education in the form of radio frequency identification for students and staff, Apple TV, cashless card systems and more.

Scientists from four British universities will use £7m of government money to attempt to develop 1cm-long robotic devices with the ability to find and mend cracks in pipes.

Ordnance Survey’s latest service, a partnership with Intel company Mobileye, is aimed at the energy and infrastructure market – mapping roadsides for manhole covers to lamp posts.

More investment in innovation would attract a new wave of diverse, tech-savvy workers to construction, helping address the sector’s skills shortage, the contracting giant argues in a paper calling for accelerated innovation in the industry.

Companies who do not manage risk and innovation better face the prospect of becoming inherently uncompetitive. That’s the message from the Institution of Civil Engineers, in a recent short paper focused on the UK built environment sector.

From the bright lights of New York to the cool canals of Amsterdam, this was a big year for proptech and we tried throughout to get to where the action was. Join us as we take a look back at some of our favourite videos we produced this year.

The real estate companies will use the software to track and manage assets through the commercial property lifecycle from introduction, through to acquisition, management and disposal.