How LandTech plans to fix slow, inefficient development

Packed with concrete and a lack of greenery, cities can be far hotter than rural areas around them. Retrofits to fix the problem can be expensive, but Spacemaker has a tool that could help developers avoid the problem in the future.

London’s £7bn Brent Cross regeneration is set to include a take-off and landing ‘vertiport’ for air taxis as its development partners beef up their transport infrastructure ambitions.

From more cost-effective designs to affordable workspace management, PlaceTech looks at the Sidewalk Labs products making development more efficient and sustainable.

The global property investor has partnered with Google to tackle what it calls “the greatest need and the greatest opportunity in addressing our future”.

Digital transformation and pathways to net zero were front and centre at this year's annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

The construction technology provider has appointed Richard Longdon, the long-serving CEO of FTSE 250 tech company AVEVA, as non-executive chairman.

Location data has “huge potential” to power a greener, faster, better transport sector in the UK – but much of the data we need is still missing. A new Geospatial Commission report has identified six transport opportunity areas and the data that could unlock significant advances.

The Royal Town Planning Institute has launched a research project into how design codes in England could help the country achieve its net zero targets.

The future of transport looks set to rely largely on electric vehicles, with hybrid plug-in vehicles likely to play a useful role in this transition, writes Miriam Prothero.