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16 Apr 2020: CDBB, a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub, has published The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Interoperability Report.

11 Dec 2020: fourfutures_onechoice_2020._png.png Four Futures, One Choice uses a futures thinking methodology to explore four scenarios for the digital built environment in the year 2040, hinging on the age demographics in the UK and the achievement of the

4 Apr 2020: screenshot_2020-06-18_at_17.09.03.png This review of CDBB funded literature revealed a wide array of tools - meaning digital technologies, processes and frameworks - at various stages of maturity, many of which could be transformative if they were

22 Jun 2020: Research background Dr Farhad Huseynov is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of bridges. During his PhD studies at the University College Dublin, he

22 Jun 2020: Research background I completed my Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering in 2018 at Imperial College London. I have experience in computational methods for the characterisation of nonlinear structural behaviour and structural dynamics. Additionally, I

22 Jun 2020: Research background My research focuses on technology adoption in construction organizations and project settings. For my PhD at the University of Hong Kong, I examined the sociotechnical interactions in a project-based ‘technology transfer’

3 Jul 2020: The DT Hub is pleased to present its second series of Digital Twin Talks! Join us on the 7th July for the first video in a eight part series exploring the interconnection of digital twins and the benefits that can be delivered. The series provides

18 Nov 2020: The open access e-book will be available to download from December 2020, but in the meantime you can find a link to the summary preview and learn more about the

13 Oct 2020: The Information Management Framework (IMF) aims to enable effective information management across the Built Environment.

17 Apr 2020: The DT Hub is pleased to present Digital Twin Talks! Join us on the 28th April for the first video in a five part series exploring how digital twins are defined and the overarching concepts around them.

17 Apr 2020: The DT Hub is pleased to present Digital Twin Talks! Join us on the 28th April for the first video in a five part series exploring how digital twins are defined and the overarching concepts around them.

11 Dec 2020: While many worried that automation would lead to unprecedented levels of unemployment, the built environment in 2040 is powered both by a growing skilled workforce and supported by automation.

1 Dec 2020: Introduction: screenshot_2020-12-01_at_11.39.40.png Welcome to our Winter newsletter. I hope you enjoy reflecting on the wealth of activity that has continued, through the challenges that 2020 has brought us all, as much as I have.

3 Mar 2020: Government Soft Landings (GSL) can play an important role in enabling a smooth transition from construction to operation. It also helps clients to assure the performance of an asset and inform future project performance setting.

22 May 2020: Our Challenge CDBB’s vision of the future involved buildings and infrastructure that are “smart”, capturing data about performance to predict when maintenance would be needed, understand how users are engaging with the services they provide

15 Jun 2020: Research Projects Research Theme Currently Funded Project Type A digital twin prototype for journeys to work in Cambridge Digital Twins, Cambridge Living Laboratory Research Facility Early Career Researcher 2018 Adaptive Design of Supported

6 Jan 2020: In the 2020 New Year Honours List Professor Andy Neely, FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the University, and former Head of IfM, received an OBE for services to Research and to University/Industry Collaboration.

19 Aug 2020: CDBB was committed to developing tools, guidance, case studies and insight papers to support the adoption of the UK BIM Framework, data-driven decision making and to enable public and private sector digital transformation that improves the social,

25 May 2020: This network takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the state-of-the-art in use of modelling support for infrastructure planning decision making, both in industry and policy practice, and in the research community; needs of the

23 Jun 2020: Tim Wright has been at Leeds since 2006, initially as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and (since 2012) as Professor of Satellite Geodesy. His work has been at the forefront of developing the use of satellite radar interferometry (InSAR)

20 Apr 2020: On April 23 2020 from 12.00-13.00 a joint webinar hosted by Geospatial Commission and Ordnance Survey will provide an overview of the recently announced Public Sector Geospatial Agreement. The presentation will cover: What's new - what does the PSGA

8 Dec 2020: CDBB Convenes global BIM Summit to target savings of $250bn through the digitalization of construction The UK's Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has announced today that the inaugural Global BIM Summit will take place, online, on 17 March 2021

25 May 2020: 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 dimensions: (1) the lifecycle of information, from its creation,

25 May 2020: This research project has used advanced image processing and computer vision techniques to recreate geospatial viewpoints of some historic, 17th century David Loggan line drawings of Cambridge Colleges. Subsequent drone flights then captured current

17 Feb 2020: Digital twins offer great potential to improve performance, resource efficiency, monitoring and safety of complex infrastructure systems. Developing and using them also generates new questions about security, privacy, equity, and public and private

27 Aug 2020: lagroup885x433.png The Local Authorities working group (established in 2019) is made up of representatives from a number of local authorities, Home Nation Reps, the UK BIM Alliance and the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities.

22 Jun 2020: Research background Nicola Moretti is a research associate at the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge. He works with the Asset Management Group at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and is part of the Centre for Digital Built

31 Mar 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has launched the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub), a new online community to promote best practice in digital twins for infrastructure and as a testbed for the Information Management Framework for the built

21 May 2020: The Future is a Digital Twin – just like now (but better and with a twin) – In this blog we hear from Sarah Rock who is a Principal Associate in the Construction and Engineering team at international law firm Gowling WLG.

17 Sep 2020: For clarity, the BIM Information Requirement Wiki Tool work currently being tendered aims to create an easy to use collaborative database that allows specially selected restricted users (client organisations) to add and edit content in order to

3 Jul 2020: Digital Twins - Capturing the complexity of cities? Dan Clarke, Cambridge City Council Cities are complex places made up of lots of interconnected systems. Currently, policies, strategies and the digital tools that help to define them, struggle to

19 Aug 2020: Greater data sharing could release an additional £7 billion per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sectors [1] , equivalent to 25% of total infrastructure spend.[2] The Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG) launches the Gemini Principles,

3 Jul 2020: The Integrated Enterprise Kevin Reeves, Costain As digital transformation accelerates across the built environment, Costain is collaborating across the value chain to move towards the Integrated Enterprise, connecting Digital Twins to ask complex

12 Nov 2020: screenshot_2020-11-12_at_09.16.31.png The local authority (LA) sector is large and diverse with 343 councils in England who collectively spent around £25bn on capital expenditure in 2017/2018 and approx. £4bn on building maintenance and operation

7 May 2020: The following resources are provided as part of our mission to develop practical insights that will enable commercial competitiveness and productivity, as well as citizen quality of life and well-being.

29 May 2020: generations. Download the report:. Subject:. 2024 University of Cambridge.

3 Jul 2020: Digital Twins Why Now? David McKee, Slingshot Simulations As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at how the development of a nation of

3 Jul 2020: Demographic Twins for ‘What if?’ Scenario Planning Mark Birkin, Alan Turing Institute As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at

19 May 2020: Our Challenge When planning a complex project like a high speed rail network or a public housing development, computer models can balance the differing needs of local communities, small business owners, the natural environment and other stakeholders,

2 Jun 2020: Webinar on National Digital Twin programme's open consultation on 'The Pathway Towards an Information Management Framework' About this Event Please join us to discuss the recently published IMF Pathway.

3 Jul 2020: Cambridge researchers are part of a collaborative project tasked with developing models, infrastructure and machine learning algorithms for capturing mobility, transportation and traffic activity in London, as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown eases.

3 Jul 2020: A National Underground Asset Register: Delivering Value with Flexibility Neil Brammal, Geospatial Commission As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce

16 Nov 2020: Every construction and infrastructure project must source information on buried utility assets (e.g. cables, pipes, sewers, ducts) when preparing ground investigation and excavation work in order to avoid costly damage to assets, and to safeguard

3 Jul 2020: Why a National Digital Twin?

4 Feb 2020: Ahead of the Construction Innovation Hub’s inaugural Digital Construction on a Shoestring workshop, Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and head of the Distributed Information &

24 May 2020: The project aimed to understand the extent to which the UK planning system is engaging with BIM at different spatial scales (e.g., individual building, development scheme, city, region).

3 Jul 2020: Overcoming Commercial Barriers to the Scaled Adoption of Digital Twins Tom Henderson, TechUK As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at

10 Aug 2020: CDBB is looking for an organisation to event-manage and facilitate two series of online workshops and dissemination of outputs to the built environment sector. The objective of the project is to gain broad agreement on the digital capabilities

21 Dec 2020: You can download and read the full paper here.

24 May 2020: This project addresses the question of how European cities are adapting to BIM, and what awareness there is of BIM in future city thinking and strategies, particularly around Smart Cities. It also looks at what tools and policies are being used to