Balfour Beatty appoints chief technology officer

The online estate agent has teamed up with Amazon to bring the household voice technology to its UK customers for updates on the sale of their home.

The developer's app will offer room bookings, issue reporting, events planning, inventory management and communication.

The Salford housing association, which owns over 8,000 homes, has given its tenants the option to manage their own tenancy digitally, with the introduction of a portal and a chatbot.

As our transport networks and urban environments expand to provide for an ever-growing population, education around air quality is vital, write Stephen Bell and Alice McLean.

Dublin's largest owner of office buildings, IPUT, has signed Forge Bluepoint to four sites.

The engine was developed with sensor firm Converge, which builds wireless and cloud-based technologies to help construction companies strike earlier and plan their projects more efficiently, by monitoring concrete.

Eurovia UK is set to trial autonomous vehicle Kar-go to support urban and rural highway management.

The developer will pilot Wondrwall’s automated energy system and Heylo’s part-rent, part-buy scheme at a project in Manchester.

The global real estate advisory firm has added another tool to its belt with the launch of an interactive 3D model of Dublin.