Researchers are looking for ways to identify and fast-track asphalt innovations and slash the carbon cost of road surfacing. Helena Russell reports.

The final report of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, published in September, concluded that the product suppliers were greedy liars and everyone else involved was just incompetent. Over the following pages we consider the fallout from the inquiry.

Two very different product developments are promising huge benefits in the generation and storage of renewable heat energy. David Taylor reports

One of the Labour party’s pre-election promises was to free up the planning system and get people building more homes. One of its proposed tools for achieving this is the introduction of ‘brownfield passports’ – and it has raised a few eyebrows, as Mark Smulian reports