British fusion investment fund Starmaker One has received a £20 million boost from the UK government to kickstart growth. 

The water sector has been slower than others in implementing information management standards due to its historical focus on engineering and operations. But with more than £100bn to spend in the next five years to upgrade the water and waste water network, change is needed, says Clare Taylor, chair of BIM4Water.

A new report by the cross-party Public Accounts Committee says that the government’s lack of coherent and integrated decarbonisation plans are jeopardising the country’s net zero objectives.

A village in Cornwall has started getting its energy from a shared network of ground-source heat pumps, in what is thought to be the first project of its kind.