{"id":105250,"date":"2022-02-07T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=105250"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:50:18","slug":"multi-million-pound-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/multi-million-pound-investment\/105250\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramboll awards VU.CITY with multi-million-pound investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Smart city design and planning platform <a href=\"https:\/\/vu.city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VU.CITY<\/a> has secured a series A multi-million-pound investment from <a href=\"https:\/\/ramboll.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramboll<\/a> to help model the future our cities using digital twin technology<\/h2>\n<p>The engineering and design consultancy joins existing shareholder<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grosvenorhillventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Grosvenor Hill Ventures<\/a> &#8211; the technology investment subsidiary of global real estate advisory firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savills.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Savills<\/a> &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/gia.uk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GIA Surveyors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, VU.CITY has been helping architects, developers, planners and local authorities across the UK and Ireland make better decisions on the future of our cities with proposed development using interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/3d-digital-twin-technology\/101140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3D digital city models.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The investment from Ramboll will help VU.CITY to become a marketplace for data and solution providers to inform the development of the best possible cities, whilst scaling into new markets, geographies, and industry verticals.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Helping create better cities for the future\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>VU.CITY CEO Jamie Holmes said: \u201cWe\u2019ve always believed VU.CITY has almost limitless potential in helping create better cities for the future and the investment from Ramboll marks the beginning of the next stage of our growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability for us to access Ramboll\u2019s knowledge as designers, engineers, architects and consultants working in cities all over the world will be of huge benefit to our customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRamboll also brings a strong innovation portfolio and we are delighted to bring their generative design real estate platform SiteSolve into the VU.CITY marketplace as one of the early contributors.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Digital twin technologies as a crucial tool to support the development of sustainable and liveable cities\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Mathew Riley from Ramboll also commented: \u201cWe see city-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/social-housing-sector\/103812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital twin technologies<\/a> as a crucial tool to support the development of sustainable and liveable cities. VU.CITY brings incredible transparency to inform crucial decision making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong collaboration and co-creation across our industry is critical to developing and scaling innovative solutions to complex challenges. We are excited to partner with the VU.CITY team to accelerate the development of this powerful platform and to bring our domain knowledge and digital expertise to support that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VU.CITY currently has modelled the city of London to 15cm accuracy, including 90% of the surrounding boroughs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart city design and planning platform VU.CITY has secured a series A multi-million-pound investment from Ramboll to help model the future our cities using digital twin technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[24813,277,856,947],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building-contracts","8":"tag-built-environment","9":"tag-construction-technology","10":"tag-london"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ramboll awards VU.CITY with multi-million-pound investment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Smart city design and planning platform VU.CITY has been awarded a multi-million-pound investment from Ramboll to help model the future our cities\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/multi-million-pound-investment\/105250\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ramboll awards VU.CITY with multi-million-pound investment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Smart city design and planning platform VU.CITY has secured a series A multi-million-pound investment from Ramboll to help model the future our cities using digital twin technology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/multi-million-pound-investment\/105250\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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