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10 Jul 2019: future_cities_in_the_making.png Project background What questions are City Information Modelling (CIM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) best suited to answer?

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

27 Nov 2017: The Government have announced £5.4 million in funding to launch the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge, which will help people make better use of cities ... BIM enables the people building and managing our transport networks,

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

24 Mar 2022: Around 40 people came together  to join the highly collaborative approach to problem-solving with additional participants joining remotely for the hybrid event. ... What we learned is that data alone won’t save the world by Itself, but the collective

25 May 2020: Radar imagery taken by satellites (InSAR) can be used to monitor millimetre-scale movements of built environment assets over time.

25 May 2020: Information Resilience (IR) can be defined as the process of reducing the vulnerability of information to threats during its lifespan.

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

16 Jul 2020: This project considers stakeholder engagement in Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure Projects.

16 Mar 2022: CDBB’s overarching role was to bring people together, to convene, connect and coordinate across the whole of the built environment.

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

30 Jan 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.06.22.png Project background This research network aims to take a user-centric approach to interacting with information, from search and retrieval to browsing and exploration, and to consider the following three

13 Jun 2020: Literature review, expert panel, interviews. Subject:. people list.

7 Mar 2019: The Centre for Digital Built Britain has published one of the key deliverables of the DFTG: The Roadmap to the Information Management Framework for the Built Environment (the Framework), that will enable the development of the National Digital Twin

25 May 2020: What questions are City Information Modelling (CIM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) best suited to answer? This project examines what digital information is commonly available in UK cities and what new information can be retrieved from the

6 Nov 2017: With the closure of CDBB in September 2022, this website remains as an archive of our work.

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

To asset owners and managers, understanding how people move through and use the built environment is a high priority, enabling better, more user-focused decisions.

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

Search site. Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022. This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built

23 Jan 2019: CDBB has published the first output of its Digital Framework Task Group, The Gemini Principles. The paper sets out proposed principles to guide the national digital twin and the information management framework that will enable it.

25 May 2020: Abstract screenshot_2020-08-14_at_17.12.02.png Effective asset management plays a significant role in delivering the functionality and serviceability of buildings.

12 Sep 2022: Digital Construction on a Shoestring follows the Shoestring Approach that emerged from Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring, a University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing project helping SME manufacturers benefit from digitalisation.

27 Apr 2020: Abstract. When looking at in-building or urban settings, information about the number of people present and the way they move through the space is useful for helping designers to understand

25 May 2020: This project aimed to fully document and make available the automated back analysis tool developed to support commercial implementation, as well as investigate barriers to the adoption of data-driven adaptive design in practice through a targeted

15 Jan 2019: screenshot_2020-06-24_at_13.39.58.png Research background This research network aims to: establish the existing landscape; determine the current position and future vision in relation to other industry bodies that are fundamental in shaping the

25 May 2020: This project developed a case study of The Edge in Amsterdam, billed as the world’s smartest building, for CDBB.

16 May 2019: dcom.png Project background The entire lifecycle of the built environment is governed by a variety of regulations, requirements and standards. The checking of compliance against these is a complex task, which is currently performed manually, thus

24 May 2020: Using the principles of universal design, this project aims to create a VR environment that reduces usability issues such as balance in order to test virtual built environment designs with users who have a balance or sensory impairment.

31 Mar 2018: designing_safe.png Project background Using the principles of universal design, this project aims to create a VR environment that reduces usability issues such as balance in order to test virtual built environment designs with users who have a

24 May 2020: The Housing Digital Built Britain Network focused its attention on residential housing. It brought together academics, practitioners, policy makers and government to facilitate dialogue and determine the key areas of inquiry.

12 May 2018: adaptive_design.png Project background This project aimed to fully document and make available the automated back analysis tool developed to support commercial implementation, as well as investigate barriers to the adoption of data-driven adaptive

24 May 2020: Indeed, carbon saving measures are not uniformly beneficial to all people and buildings, and integrated analysis across diverse dimensions can help understand barriers or opportunities for their uptake.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.28.01.png Project background How can buildings’ energy use and embodied energy both be optimized at the design stage? This project aims to enable the generation of real-time data from operational energy use and from

25 May 2020: This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin.

28 Jan 2020: construction projects context) and conceptualise it as a dynamic change process that people enact.

22 Sep 2022: The bigger and more complicated the engineering problem, the more likely it is to have a digital twin. Firms that build rockets, planes and ships, for example, have been creating digital twins since the early 2000s, seeing significant operational

30 Dec 2018: screenshot_2020-06-30_at_21.21.47.png Project background The Housing Digital Built Britain Network focused its attention on residential housing. It brought together academics, practitioners, policy makers and government to facilitate dialogue and

25 May 2020: This project improved the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment.

27 Nov 2019: A Building Information Modelling approach to the alignment of organisational objectives to Asset Information Requirements Our December Monthly Paper is a Journal paper by James Heaton and Ajith Parlikad from the Institute for Manufacturing, and

4 Jun 2019: This report describes the uses of BIM technologies and implementation of BIM processes, examples of its benefits and some of the main lessons learned from BIM implementation during Project Capella, which forms part of the University’s Biomedical

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-06_at_14.06.09.png Project background This project developed a case study of The Edge in Amsterdam, billed as the world’s smartest building, for CDBB.

10 Sep 2020: ARCOM Kwadwo paper.png The paper 'Offsite manufacturing and construction industry transformation: a multi-level socio-technical transitions perspective' has been published in the Proceedings of the 36th Annual ARCOM Conference.

21 Oct 2021: screenshot_2021-10-21_at_09.33.52.png Abstract This guidance document describes six key factors that will help construction firms to transform their project delivery through the adoption and use of BIM and OSM.

15 Feb 2019: screenshot_2020-07-10_at_09.42.08.png Background This report describes the uses of BIM technologies and implementation of BIM processes, examples of its benefits and some of the main lessons learned from BIM implementation during Project Capella,

4 May 2018: machine_learning.png Project background This project improved the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment.