Five projects creating supportive places for older UK residents

At the forefront of a stadium capacity discussion will be whether a club can fill the seats it builds on match day, writes Chris Pike.

A hallmark of the past year has been the ongoing struggle between Covid-19 and science, writes Vincenzo Maggio. The questions around retail and office space do not apply in the same way to R&D facilities.

Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s innovation business, has created a low-cost, real-time sensor to manage and understand how parking spaces are used in an effort to kickstart better placemaking.

Estates teams in the HE sector face a raft of challenges, writes Laura Ludlow, including reduced income from overseas students, third term rent refunds and the likely reduction of public sector spending in the near future.

Confirmation in the Queen’s Speech that the UK government will pursue laws to modernise the planning system were cautiously welcomed by the property industry, although the specifics of those plans are still unclear.

Electric vehicles hit record sales in the UK and US in the first quarter of the year, but wide-ranging challenges could derail the industry’s recent gains.

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.

The first driverless vehicles are due to hit our streets later in this decade, writes Robbie Turner. As well as having an effect on how we live, work and travel, the rollout could have a profound effect on how our towns, cities and built environment are developed.

How can proptech help developers keep track of the moving parts in the rapidly-evolving residential market?