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11 May 2021: It's about bringing all of our learnings together and creating better outcomes for people and places. ... I hope people do sign up and we would welcome contact from the public sector in countries who would like to participate with the Network and

27 May 2021: It’s crucial that we stop working in silos and listen to the needs of young people and their teachers. ... We strive to provide employers with the training they want for their people when they want it.

25 Feb 2021: The Construction Innovation Hub’s new Information interoperability: business benefits case helps organisations to understand and unlock the benefits of information interoperability.

28 Sep 2021: Assessing the performance of a building or other asset during the procurement, design and construction phase remains a significant challenge for the industry and its operational energy use and emissions can come as a shock.

5 Mar 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

5 Mar 2021: Change requires a cultural shift within an organisation. People respond best when change is incremental and positive impacts can be seen in their daily work.

17 Mar 2021: As transport systems increase in complexity and mutual dependency the cost and requirement for real-world testing is also increasing. Therefore, the automotive and transport industries are seeking to augment real-world testing with simulation and

19 Mar 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

26 Feb 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

26 Feb 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

5 Mar 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

15 Mar 2021: Local authorities have varied responsibilities and populations, but all are grappling with increasing budget pressures -not least due to the Covid-19 relief and recovery.

15 Dec 2021: Published in MDPI Sustainability a new open access paper from Antiopi Koronaki, Aurimas Bukauskas, Aftab Jalia, Darshil U. Shah and Michael H.

21 Apr 2021: environment whose explicit purpose is to enable people and nature to flourish together for generations. ... shared rules for how we can share data where digital and physical worlds meet for the benefit of people and society.

6 Sep 2021: Since its creation in 2018, the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) has had three objectives: Enable a National Digital Twin – an ecosystem of connected digital twins to foster better outcomes from our built environment Deliver an Information

25 May 2021: It marks the culmination of two years of close joint working between the two countries - by working together to innovate the built environment we can create better outcomes for people and

21 Sep 2021: 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. ... I have watched Mark work resolutely to create the transformational change in our

15 Jan 2021: Colouring London is described by the ODI as an example of a 'successful collaborative data maintenance model’ along with Wikipedia, Open Streetmap, Music Brainz, and Open Food Facts'.

20 Oct 2021: Bring together the thinking of CDBB community to inform future programmes and pass the baton to a new generation of people who will help turn ideas into reality.

17 Mar 2021: The Network will build on its members’ transformation journeys to transition towards a digital built environment that delivers socio-economic benefits for people and places. ... It's about bringing all of our learnings together and creating better

11 Mar 2021: As a result, a formal mechanism to ensure that the right information can be made available at the right time, to the right people and that the quality of the information

3 Sep 2021: Mike Turpin, Technical Adviser for the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) explains how the recently released enhanced suite of online training will help to support the global implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM).

17 May 2021: In a proof-of-concept collaboration between TWI Ltd and the University of Cambridge and enabled by the Construction Innovation Hub, researchers have developed a sustainable process to rapidly join timber elements using linear friction welding.

5 Mar 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

21 Jul 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has been housed at the University of Cambridge since September 2017.

16 Jun 2021: s productivity gap, but could also unlock economic, environmental and social gains to create a better future for people and the planet.”.

22 Nov 2021: These projects included essential social and economic infrastructure and provided an opportunity to apply the adopted and adapted methodologies to deliver benefits to people and places.

18 Aug 2021: An enhanced suite of training has been launched to support the global implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM).

3 Nov 2021: The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (31 October to 12 November 2021) is sending a strong message to all countries to put the targets set at the COP21 2015 summit into action in order to achieve Net-zero goals and stop climate change.

26 Feb 2021: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International work stream has championed the foundation of successful collaborations between international governments and regional public sector communities resulting in the forthcoming launch of a Global

1 Feb 2021: 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

12 Feb 2021: A panel discussion with the authors Chair: Dr Erika Parn cz_logo_rectangle.png Four Futures, One Choice, a new, plain-language e-book written by experts from the Centre for Digital Built Britain in Cambridge, presents four future scenarios for what

26 Feb 2021: As part of the Cambridge Festival we are inviting Cambridgeshire residents to join us to explore what the future might be for UK’s buildings, infrastructure, places and spaces.

8 Sep 2021: screenshot_2021-09-08_at_10.47.25.png Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. We are pleased to bring you an update of the activities from across CDBB, the National Digital Twin Programme, our Construction Innovation Hub work, our research teams, and

20 Apr 2021: framework_for_composition.png The Construction Innovation Hub's  (the Hub) Platform Design Programme (PDP) working in partnership with both government and industry to develop a platform construction system consisting of a standardised kit of

1 Mar 2021: The Skills and Competency Framework, is the people enabler needed to develop and drive adoption of the IMF. ... There will be opportunities for technical and non-technical people who are equipped with the right skills, ranging from data fundamentals,

12 Feb 2021: Explore what the UK’s buildings, places and spaces could be like in 2040 & how the choices we make today could lead to fairer greener future. An interactive story sets out four future visions for the built environment and will be available

13 May 2021: It also supports a smooth transition (soft landing) between design and construction teams and the people that operate and use public buildings and facilities. ... putting people's needs at the heart of construction.

22 Mar 2021: The Infrastructure Mapping Application for London (IMA) seeks to address London’s need for improved coordination around infrastructure delivery to minimise disruption.

2 Feb 2021: Local authorities across the UK are being encouraged to ‘go digital’ in their approach to the design, construction and operation of their buildings and estates.

12 Feb 2021: Odysseus, a collaborative project led by The Alan Turing Institute, is featured by Microsoft On the Issues, the organisation’s global public affairs content hub that explores ways technology impacts society.

26 Apr 2021: Resource: Skills and Competencies for the National Digital Twin. With a growing digital transformation movement, there are a wealth of new and exciting career and training opportunities for people, regardless of ... The elements that make up the Skills

25 Mar 2021: Resigned to our fate). The people and businesses of the UK have placed greater value on lower-carbon activities, such as creative pursuits, sharing and repairing economies, careers in caring and ... spending time in nature with the people we love.

11 May 2021: The Construction Playbook (2020) highlights the need for appointing parties, such as asset owner clients, to further embed digital technologies and processes, especially the UK BIM Framework and digital twins, as a vehicle to improve the performance,

16 Jun 2021: s productivity gap, but could also unlock economic, environmental and social gains to create a better future for people and the planet.”.

20 Apr 2021: Asset System lifecycle and a periodic process lifecycle – to support the management of information for any large system of people, organisations, assets and, crucially, the activities in which they are involved.

19 Mar 2021: Many industries and businesses have been converted into more efficient, dynamic, and productive forms. The construction industry, on the other hand, still relies heavily on labour combined with onsite work, which is no longer compatible with the

1 Dec 2021: Thank you also to those people that have provided invaluable feedback that continues to shape the direction of the guidance.”.

19 Jan 2021: Hear from experts in application of digital technologies from the University of Cambridge (UoC) that are helping SMEs in the construction sector overcome digital transformation challenges.

16 Feb 2021: In this blog from Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR), Hannah Holmes and Gemma Burgess, explain how they mapped the locations of over 350 UK businesses specialising in different types of OSM, including modular buildings, pods,