The Core Innovation Hub is a new fund that will see technology such as virtual reality and drones used to change how homes, hospitals and schools are designed and built.

Design can be art. Design can be simple. That’s why it’s so complicated. –Paul Rand

The Government is investing £72 million into tech like virtual and augmented reality in a bid to transform the UK’s construction industry.

The funding is the result of the new Core Innovation Hub, an initiative that is part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, and looks to improve STEM (science, tech, engineering and maths) skills in the UK and boost related businesses and industries.

It has been contributed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and aims to help the building and construction sector to “design and build faster, more cheaply and more sustainably”, according to the Government.