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A car kitted out with technology for gathering data on the condition of buildings<\/p>\n

Madeleine Cuff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

UK city-dwellers may have spotted a strangely shaped car cruising around their neighbourhood earlier this year. It looks just like a Google Street View vehicle, with a camera rig emerging from the back end to scan its environment \u2013 and like the Google cars, it, too, is scanning and photographing city streets.<\/p>\n

But these modified Teslas aren\u2019t just taking photos. They are kitted out with state-of-the-art sensors and scanners that enable them to report back on the exact dimensions, heat loss, materials, age and state of dilapidation of every building they drive past.<\/p>\n

Armed with this so-called built environment scanning system (BESS), the cars have been on the hunt to find out how leaky and run-down the UK\u2019s building stock really is. Between March and May, they scanned thousands of streets and millions of buildings across London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds and South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

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