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5 Jun 2019: 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

17 Oct 2019: David Cuckow from BSI talks about the role of the Digital Twins Hub to share knowledge, agree on common approaches and inform future “good practice”. David is leading the team that will set up and facilitate the DT Hub, working as part of the

27 Jun 2019: 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

20 Sep 2019: CDBB Week 2019 brought together key stakeholders from the Centre’s academic, industry and public sector networks to celebrate our collaborative and joined-up approach towards a digital built Britain that is fit for the future.

28 Jan 2019: In this project we define ‘built form’ as the assemblage of individual buildings and structures in the built environment and we make use of a wide range of new insights and data to model the evolution of the built form in Britain.

13 Sep 2019: Mott MacDonald, led by its Smart Infrastructure business, was appointed by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as the Delivery Partner for the BIM Pathfinder Programme in January 2019. As part of our series of International blogs to mark CDBB

30 Sep 2019: It seems that somehow stringent planning laws in the UK - and especially in London - inadvertently helped the UK to be in the forefront of the digital twins market for cities.

1 Feb 2019: ConTag will generate an open dataset for visual machine learning (ML) specific to the construction industry.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.23.50.png Project background Bridge collapses are expensive and often tragic events that need to be avoided by detecting faults early.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-06-30_at_22.17.11.png Project background This project represents an early trial to address the research gap on city-level digital twins. The pilot is focused on commutes, such as journeys to work, which are a key determinant of peak

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-06-30_at_21.51.57.png Project background This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin.

1 Feb 2019: just how enthusiastic and committed people still are when it comes to delivering demonstrable improvement through the adoption of BIM. ... The remaining five roundtables include SMEs, technology providers, asset management, BIM consultants and clients,

29 Mar 2019: The launch took place in the Innovation Zone and it was good to see so many people keen to know more about the collaboration to develop, commercialise and promote digital and ... by architect and television presenter George Clarke in 2017) for the 2019

29 Mar 2019: The Cambridge Science Festival provides the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career ... This year the Centre for Digital Built

8 Mar 2019: In fact, let’s be pedantic here about wording; many people write about the digitisation of construction, but that would mean that we are simply switching the same content to a ... And that’s where we stumble on our very own chicken-and-egg scenario;

13 May 2019: Abstract: With the predicted world population growth of 83 million people per year (increasing 1.09% year on year) compounded with a strong trend for migration to urban centres, there is ... People. Read the paper:. James Heaton and Ajith Parlikad; 'A

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?

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.45.33.png Project background This project aims to develop a Balanced Score Card (BSC) to support the adoption of automation in construction.

18 Mar 2019: In addition, over 150 people volunteer their time to act as stewards to ensure visitors have a safe and enjoyable Festival experience. ... The Centre for Digital Built Britain will host a session aimed at highlighting to young people the construction

22 Feb 2019: be amazed and impressed by the enthusiasm, intelligence and energy of the young people I will have spoken with during the afternoon. ... In addition, over 150 people volunteer their time to act as stewards to ensure visitors have a safe and enjoyable

10 Jul 2019: immediate.png Project background Over-engineering of systems is an often-hidden source of inefficiency in systems, which can add significantly to their building and running costs, and reduce the sustainability of systems.

12 Aug 2019: standards and frameworks that help set the direction and methods for achieving the outcomes people want. ... after the building has been handed over to occupants, how can we incentivize the people who need to pay for it up front?

11 Mar 2019: The activities have been designed to demonstrate to young people the construction jobs of the future and also how Building Information Modelling (BIM) is implemented to better design, build, operate and ... integrate various buildings that better serve

23 Oct 2019: screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.26.55.png Abstract Over the past few years, deep learning (DL) based electricity demand forecasting has received considerable attention amongst mathematicians, engineers and data scientists working within the smart grid

3 May 2019: It was important to keep the Concepts Guidance as straightforward as possible to encourage people to engage with the ISO 19650 standards. ... All feedback will be considered and where there is engagement we will invite people to participate in the

28 May 2019: We are fortunate to collaborate with such dedicated and highly skilled people in different organisations to achieve the shared goal of transforming our future infrastructure.

29 Apr 2019: In short, it is about having the right information (and information that is right) for the right people at the right time.

5 Mar 2019: Mott MacDonald has been appointed as Delivery Partner for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Building Information Modelling (BIM) Pathfinder Programme, as part of the Cross-government Prosperity Funded Global Infrastructure Programme.

5 Jul 2019: day celebrating our progress so far towards a National Digital Twin and enabling people at all stages of their digital twin journey to come together and share knowledge. ... information-based industry, in which better decisions, based on better data,

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.29.00.png Project background The goal of this project is to develop two separate current frameworks for practice, policy and future research under the umbrella theme of ancillary (additional) sensing for BIM.

25 Jan 2019: Twin. Simply put, it is about having the right information for the right people at the right time.

22 Jan 2019: People. Audrey Ouyang. Caroline Burstall. Dav Bisessar. Subject:. 2024 University of Cambridge.

7 May 2019: It is great to work with such a dedicated group of people in such different organisations, all focused on achieving the goal of transforming infrastructure of the future.

11 Jan 2019: new skills and young people into construction. ... In order to attract new talent we must incentivise young people to join the industry and the best way to do this is through advances in technology that deliver value to

31 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-06-24_at_14.27.58.png Project background What part does city and regional governance play in how a city-level digital twin develops?

4 Apr 2019: Others, impatient for progress, have said to government: “Why don’t you just get on with it?” Perhaps the answer to those people should be: “There isn’t yet a clear

9 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.37.10.png Project background Information Resilience (IR) can be defined as the process of reducing the vulnerability of information to threats during its lifespan.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.09.44.png Project background Osmose is a project aimed at building a new operating system for situated environments that can handle the demands of thousands of sensors and actuators that need to run in a coordinated and

26 Mar 2019: The March Paper in the CDBB Publication Series is by Andy Neely, who looks at how AR and VR can allow us to build beautiful.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.16.41.png Project background The aim of this project was to develop a new digital interface to integrate the data and visualisation of the designs of land use, buildings, transport infrastructure and associated urban

8 Apr 2019: It was great to see such a variety of people interested in what we are doing, covering all generations, and we look forward to new opportunities to reach out to different

17 Jan 2019: We are pleased to announce that Mark Girolami will be joining the Centre for Digital Built Britain in March 2019 from the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, where he holds both the Chair of Statistics and the Lloyds Register

8 Apr 2019: As we saw with the publication of the Gemini Principles, there is a large community of people and organisations who are engaged and supportive of the development of an information management

8 Feb 2019: Many people have been involved in this journey on a pro bono or voluntary basis, and I for one would like to thank them for all that they have done.

5 Apr 2019: CDBB and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) teamed up for the fifth event in a programme of high-level ‘roundtable’ discussions, which aim to further accelerate adoption of the government’s digital strategy for the built environment,

10 Jul 2019: co-evolving.png Project background What would an autonomous vehicle’s dream city look like? Autonomous navigation is a hard problem that is compounded by the unpredictability and dynamics of urban environments.

10 Jul 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.59.13.png Project background ML technology has enabled a revolutionary leap in many digital economies generating growth in activity and business mainly for the ITC sector. Part of the growth is generated through sharing

31 May 2019: Scotland’s geography is another a factor shaping digitalisation. Highland is the largest local authority in the UK but it is sparsely populated, with only nine people per km2 recorded in

7 Jan 2019: DR JENNIFER SCHOOLING OBE, Chair of the Strategic Research Advisory Group at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), Interim Academic Lead for the Core Innovation Hub of the Transforming Construction Alliance, and Director of the Centre for

14 May 2019: The Centre of Digital Built Britain in partnership with the UK BIM Alliance invites proposals to conduct a research project to investigate BIM maturity and benefits tools evaluation.