Coworking giant WeWork rebrands to The We Company

In a global debut for the Big Four auditor, the drone captured more than 300 images and measured the volume of coal stored at one of the UK’s last remaining coal-fired power stations.

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.

New proptech companies seem to appear every week but while many of these companies have a good team, great product, or compelling proposition, many don’t have all three, writes Alex Edds.

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.

Venture capitalist Fifth Wall has outlined how e-commerce innovators are set to continue revolutionising the retail sector this year. 

Over the holidays 179 of you completed Antony Slumbers' 'How proptech are you?' quiz. Are you mainly dinosaurs, nervous dabblers or tech dynamos?

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.

Proptech professionals from British Property Federation, PiLabs, VTS, WiredScore and more share their insights looking forward to the year ahead.

Join attendees including global transport company Scania, networking group PropTech House, Nordea Bank, developer Diös, smart building innovator Spaceti, 3D visualiser Vyer, law firm Bird & Bird, electric car hire company Cityzapnow and more, as PlaceTech brings its Trend Talk series to Stockholm on 29 January.

Mike Edge and Paul Knight, partners at Mills & Reeve, look at how the law firm has been using technology to improve real estate investment purchases.