Morgan Sindall Construction has secured nearly £1m funding from Innovate UK to enhance its whole life carbon assessment (WLCA) tool.

Real-time sensors that can detect leaves and the leaf mulch that slows trains could signal the end of the dreaded railway announcement of “leaves on the line”.

Construction is one of the sectors being targeted by Innovate UK’s new £100m fund to drive adoption of AI and machine learning technology.

An Innovate UK-backed project will examine how to turn BIM data and intelligence created during the design and construction of housebuilding into useful information for homeowners.

The first fruits of Skanska’s robot vision have been realised following tests of a BIM-linked site robot.