The European Commission has released the 2016 results of the European Innovation Scoreboard, the Regional Innovation Scoreboard and the Innobarometer which look at the innovation performance of member states.

A new joint venture between global asset management consultancy, Amey, and world leading drone technology experts, VTOL Technologies, will use precision, long-range drones to transform asset management inspections – making it safer, quicker and easier to assess vital infrastructure such as bridges and railways.

Investment in tidal energy will provide a huge boost to steelmaking and other industries, creating many thousands of jobs in South Wales, the head of the Government’s independent review of tidal lagoon power, Charles Hendry, heard during a visit to Newport.

T·PARK, Hong Kong’s first self-sustaining sludge treatment facility and the largest sludge treatment plant in the world, has officially opened. 

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced it will invest up to €10 million euros in AW-Energy, a pioneering start-up company from Finland which developed “WaveRoller” wave energy technology.

Three-dimensional ‘point cloud’ data is now being made freely available for any use and can help to build highly-detailed models of urban environments. LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) surveys are carried out by the Environment Agency to help with flood modelling and tracking changing coastal habitats.

Innovate UK, the Government’s national innovation agency, is to invest up to £15 million in innovation projects in the infrastructure systems sector.

Leading engineering and asset management consultancy, Amey has launched Mercury, their new cloud-based data analytics system at this year’s Institute of Asset Management Annual Conference in Edinburgh.