Ultraviolet robots, vapour systems and waste analytics are among the tech solutions helping to keep premises safe and healthy.

There was a $30bn investment into the data centre sector during the first half of 2020, despite the impact of Covid-19, according to research by Knight Frank and DC Byte.

Sunand Prasad, incoming chair of the UK Green Building Council, said he plans to use the position to champion climate action in the property and construction industry and inspire the industry to adopt practical solutions to making buildings truly sustainable and regenerative by design.

Joining Paul Unger, editor of PlaceTech, is James Onions, director of Paragon, the building services consultancy, to share his passion for bringing technology to property.

It’s simple, really. Open your space, with your face. Well, at least that’s the dream of these two companies; innDex, an emerging leader in construction site digitisation and automation; and Touchbyte, a pioneer in facial recognition technology.

London-based electric vehicle infrastructure company, Connected Kerb, has secured £720,000 from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy as part of a consortium for a pioneering EV charging project, Agile Streets.

Paragon, one of the UK’s largest independent building and project management consultancies, has agreed a strategic partnership with proptech connectivity expert NODE.

Buildots, which tracks errors on site from hard hat-mounted cameras and processes them to a central dashboard, has raised significant funding from a group of investors.

The European construction tools group has entered into a partnership with prosthetics manufacturer Ottobock to develop exoskeletal systems, which “open new possibilities in terms of health protection and productivity” in the construction industry.