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Bisnow
Makerspaces and shared workshops will be created alongside new homes and on high streets, thanks to new planning codes and a surge in vacant shop units. So said the designer behind a slew of co-making schemes in London and Manchester….
Avison Young
Avison Young today announced an enterprise partnership with Occupier, a real estate management software company based in New York City. This partnership further expands Avison Young’s investment in technology and innovation to drive digitization of services across the board for clients. “The collaboration of Avison Young and Occupier is exciting not only for our real estate professionals, but for our clients. We’re pulling in best-in-class technology from a provider that offers the top soluti…
Axios
Truck driving is becoming a desk job at Einride, the Swedish company whose electric Pods are now plying the freight yards at GE Appliances’ 750-acre campus in Louisville, Kentucky, Joann Muller reports. Why it matters: The company’s fleet of electric, autonomous trucks could be a model for the commercial freight industry, which faces a shortage of truck drivers and demands to reduce its carbon emissions.
PR Newswire
Kebony, the leading environmentally friendly wood modification technology company, today announces a successful EUR 30 million funding round led by Jolt Capital and Lightrock. Kebony’s vision is to reduce CO2 emissions and tropical deforestation using its patented wood modification techniques, which produce superior wood in an environmentally friendly way. The key disruptive trends in the construction industry are expressed by the need for greener, safer and better products, as the standard c…
PR Newswire
BrainBox AI, a leader in autonomous building technology, today announced a $24M raise to further deploy its AI technology in the built environment and develop its next phase of innovation. The first close of its Series A round includes new lead investor, ABB, and investments by Esplanade Ventures and Desjardins Capital….
Businesswire
Today Prescriptive Data, a smart building and real estate sustainability artificial intelligence company, announced it has been named the newest member of Microsoft for Startups, a global program that helps B2B startups scale with cloud resources and mentoring….
CNBC
Far from Glasgow and COP26, Ithaca, New York, just made an unprecedented move to tackle climate change and the city’s carbon footprint. In a unanimous vote on Wednesday night, Ithaca’s city council approved the full decarbonization of its buildings.
Placetech
A Dutch company working on the development of hyperloop has received €15m from the European Commission – the first time the bloc has funded a hyperloop project.
Wall Street Journal
Sometimes a ruler gets too ambitious and has to fall on his own sword. So it goes for online real-estate king Zillow which, in conjunction with its earnings announcement Tuesday, said it was quitting the automated home-flipping business less than three years after reorganizing its whole kingdom to accommodate it. The pullout, the company said, would reduce its workforce by about 25% over the next few quarters. Zillow said last month that it was pausing offers on homes for which it didn’t alre…
Wall Street Journal
Matt Friedell and about a dozen other Marines approached the gully they had to cross, sized up the terrain and deployed their gear for an operation not found in any military playbook: 3-D printing a bridge.
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