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.

i2O, the smart water network company, has announced that it has doubled its manufacturing capacity by creating a new state-of-the-art technology assembly facility in Woolston, Southampton, close to its UK headquarters.

Doosan Enpure has recently embarked upon its Enflo-Carb™ project, using its proven Enflo-DAF™ technology as the foundation to a series of seasonal trials with the support of the Water Science Institute at Cranfield University.