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30 Apr 2020: Dr Ioannis Brilakis, leader of the University of Cambridge Department for Engineering’s Construction IT group, and CDBB academic has been awarded grant funding, along with visiting Professor Rafael Sacks, to enhance building progress monitoring

30 Apr 2020: The fourth edition of Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery has been published today by the UK BIM Framework.

23 Sep 2020: We wanted to provide that extra level of support to those people who often felt like the odd one out in their own organisation. ... people entering this field and we are looking for ways to be better allies to these communities as well.

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

5 Feb 2020: Published today by the UK BIM Framework The UK BIM Framework today releases the third edition of Guidance Part 2: process for Project Delivery to support practitioners in embedding and implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) Guidance Part 2

26 Mar 2020: Due to the unique prototypical nature of construction, each project relies on the coordination of a diverse network of people, products, services and works.

14 May 2020: screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.41.50.png Abstract A digital twin (DT) refers to a digital replica of physical assets, processes, and systems.

24 May 2020: Related to all these points is the key challenge of engaging people who live and work in cities.

25 May 2020: ensure people know how and when to use it.

12 May 2020: To do this, the paper sets out a systems-based, people-focused view of infrastructure with a focus on:. ... People – the key purpose of infrastructure is to support and serve society, we must get better at understanding and delivering the

3 Jun 2020: 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 highly reliable fashion.

25 May 2020: 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.

12 Oct 2020: The programme’s mission is to enable a data infrastructure to help unlock the information economy, building a smarter nation that benefits people and society.

24 May 2020: Building Interactive Smart Acoustics into Buildings and Clothing. Can people who use hearing aids experience the detailed soundscapes of the buildings they are in?

13 Jun 2020: Subject:. People list.

11 Dec 2020: performance, reduced cost, higher quality and longer-lasting assets, while avoiding algorithmic biases that would exclude people from accessing these benefits. ... This points to the need to put people and planet first in decisions about digital

3 Jun 2020: Machine learning and other existing technologies used in this project require people with specialist skills, and there may be a lack of willingness to invest the time and money in this

25 May 2020: The digital disruption of traditional norms fuels arguments that digital technology gives rise to completely new collaborative models and has significant impact on construction procurement systems.

20 May 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s National Digital Twin programme has launched an open consultation seeking feedback on the proposed approach to the development of an Information Management Framework for the built environment.

25 May 2020: How could Blockchain be implemented in construction? As an emerging technology, Blockchain is being explored for various industries including, but not limited to: health care, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, logistics, finance, banking and

11 May 2020: The central ideas are simple and radical: that the purpose of infrastructure is human flourishing, therefore infrastructure should be viewed and managed as a system of systems that serves people and

23 May 2020: 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.

24 May 2020: Prototyping. More work is needed on passive metrics that do not rely on any manual input from people, and technologies that utilise them.

28 Aug 2020: people and the environment.

25 May 2020: BIM-based tools for automated compliance checking can potentially mitigate some of the negative effects of complexity in healthcare design.

19 Oct 2020: New research by Thayla Zomer, a PhD researcher at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), University of Cambridge, Professor Andy Neely, Director of CDBB and Dr Ajith Parlikad, explores how organisational aspects and existing ways of working

23 May 2020: How can digital twins address city-level problems such as transportation planning as work patterns change? This project represents an early trial to address the research gap on city-level digital twins.

4 Jun 2020: It’s undeniably been a difficult time for most lately, with our relevant sectors being particularly hard hit, and consequently left more vulnerable.

13 Jun 2020: Subject:. People list.

24 May 2020: What part does city and regional governance play in how a city-level digital twin develops?

24 May 2020: While digital technology is springing up in the private rented sector and potentially providing various benefits, there is still a trust barrier when it comes to tenants sharing their data.

23 May 2020: This project aims to understand how check-in data from social media is distributed around Cambridge and what kinds of spatial segmentation can be identified. It validated the social media data on urban segregation using observation and questionnaires

23 May 2020: This project builds on a tool developed by two Cambridge PhD students that allows for the generation of high-resolution geographical data heat maps. These heat maps can help to solve optimisation problems relevant to citizens’ everyday lives.

23 May 2020: This project initiated some baseline data gathering and primary analysis of the ways in which off-the-shelf IOT sensors are going to generate and distribute data, the services they will invoke, and the infrastructure dependencies that will thus be

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

5 May 2020: 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.

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

25 May 2020: 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.

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

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

23 May 2020: 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

25 May 2020: This project set out to show the benefits of a manufacture-led approach to construction, showing how it would support the commitments made by the UK government to improving the construction sector.

24 May 2020: This project aims to define the barriers and opportunities for adopting BIM in the UK housing sector, and to highlight the potential benefits of BIM to this sector.

3 Jun 2020: 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 services at both the neighbourhood and city scale.

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

3 Jun 2020: 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 of IP, knowledge, tools and datasets. We want to adopt

24 May 2020: Digital technologies have the potential to unlock major social and economic change for the World’s rapidly growing urban populations, creating value through more liveable, healthy and environmentally sustainable cities.

25 May 2020: Loads can be safely increased, as can speed. This improves the carbon footprint for goods transported by rail, and means goods and people can transit from A to B more quickly. ... As Chris Talbot, Principal Engineer at Network Rail, explains:. “With

19 May 2020: Our Challenge Digital twins are realistic digital representations of physical assets, for example a digital representation of an aeroplane that can be used to monitor and predict performance, feeding out insights and interventions.

19 May 2020: society, policy, housing, the economy, nature, value and many other issues that touch the daily lives of people in a digital built Britain.