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5 Oct 2022: Off-site manufacturing delivers major benefits to the automotive, food and beverage industries, but construction has been slower to explore its potential, especially in the UK.

9 Mar 2022: Henry Fenby-Taylor, the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Head of Information Management explores the start-up ecosystem in construction and how a new report from the Construction Innovation Hub can help those looking to set up or invest in

10 Mar 2022: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) publishes the Gemini Papers today (Thursday 10 March) to outline a blueprint for the future - demonstrating the value of connected digital twins and how they can enable people and nature to flourish

28 Mar 2022: Download a digital copyis CDBB’s blueprint for the future, showcasing the vital role that connected digital twins play in improving social, economic, and environmental outcomes, to create a better quality

24 Mar 2022: “We’re either a massive brake or accelerator on climate resilience depending on our actions.” The UK’s built environment, of which the construction sector is a significant component, contributes approximately 40% of our nation’s carbon

7 Feb 2022: To create a just and inclusive digital built Britain, we need to have ongoing critical dialogues about the ethics of the decision-making involved in creating smart cities. None of us will get it exactly right to begin with, but better outcomes for

9 Feb 2022: If you are concerned about climate change and passionate about the power of data to tackle the challenges we face then join us to explore how information interoperability can help to tackle the biggest challenges facing the plannet today - the

21 Apr 2022: The finance industry has long been at the forefront of using data and technology to make better decisions, to de-risk and improve return on investments, and to create better outcomes.

17 Jan 2022: By 2050, an estimated 4.1 million people will be affected by sight loss in the UK, making up a portion of the 14.1 smarthospital_panels_v4-page-001.jpg million disabled people in the UK.

25 May 2022: In an increasingly digitalised built Britain, smart city initiatives are seen as a way to give local authorities the opportunity to boost their inter-urban competitiveness and to harness urban data to shape urban decision making and service delivery,

4 Feb 2022: You are invited to join a webinar on 2nd March when the team will share the project outcomes and learnings. Hear from the CReDo team about the technical demonstrator they delivered and the lessons they learned, and find out how you can pick up the

22 Sep 2022: Engineered timber offers a cost-effective solution to the UK’s building needs, improving construction productivity and performance.

22 Sep 2022: Digital innovation brings opportunities to improve productivity and predictability in construction. Yet the sector has been slow to change. The problem is not purely technical; digital transformation is also a social, cultural, economic and

18 May 2022: A significant proportion of the work undertaken by CDBB has focussed on the macro level, working with national and international policymakers and businesses. However, most businesses that make up the construction sector are small and medium-sized

23 Mar 2022: Launched today (23 March) our Information Management Roadmap is designed to set out on one page how we are driving the digital transformation of the construction sector and contributing to the achievement of the Transforming Construction Challenge

22 Sep 2022: A major rail upgrade programme to remove a bottleneck on the West Coast Main Line saw collaboration between Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, Volker Rail and Network Rail.

26 Sep 2022: The development of a digital twin for the facilities of the University of Cambridge on the West Cambridge campus provided a chance to address the challenges associated with the production of a National Digital Twin (NDT) along with how a

28 Feb 2022: This blog by Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Konrad Graser identifies the DFAB House project in Switzerland as a case study which captures learning for faciliating the digitalisation of offsite manufacturing aligned to the Construction Innovation Hub's

22 Sep 2022: The UK construction and housing industries lag behind most other fields in taking advantage of new technologies. Government has repeatedly expressed its commitment to digital transformation in the construction sector.

4 Oct 2022: The century-old Moorfields Eye Hospital is relocating from its current home in London’s Old Street to a two-acre site at St Pancras Hospital, in the King’s Cross area.

3 Mar 2022: We are pleased to announce that from 1 April 2022, the DT Hub will transition from its current home at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) to an Industry/Catapult partnership housed at the Connected Places Catapult (CPC).

4 Oct 2022: Plans for Oriel, a new hub for eyecare, have been in development since 2011. A design team was appointed in 2019, offering CDBB-funded researchers based at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School a timely opportunity to explore what

22 Mar 2022: We all want the built environment to be safe and to last. However, minor movements over time from forces such as subsidence can impact how well our assets perform. It can also make connecting and modifying assets harder if they have shifted from the

22 Sep 2022: As of 2019, the UK Government has committed to a “presumption in favour” of off-site construction for procurement of all new buildings by all key government departments.

4 Oct 2022: From 2018 to March 2022, the Centre for Digital Built Britain led the National Digital Twin Programme on behalf of the UK Government.

25 Mar 2022: 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. However, many of the methods for getting these insights can feel invasive to users of

31 Mar 2022: Executive Summary Our world is changing: the way local authorities provide products and services, as well as people’s expectations of how they are delivered, are changing. Finances and resources are, and will be, increasingly stretched.

10 Feb 2022: Impacts and benefits of incorporating the TIP Roadmap (2030), Construction Playbook and Value Toolkit for Local Authorities Executive Summary The UK Government has developed or supported three key documents and productivity initiatives that are

9 Mar 2022: Published today Designing an Accelerator for the Construction Sector (9 March) is a practical guide to supporting start-up firms and entrepreneurs within the built environment sector - to help them thrive, and work towards the goal of building a

12 Sep 2022: Digitalisation can seem beyond the financial reach of many small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs). Barriers to engaging with digital tools and technologies include high entry and operating costs and complexity.

29 Mar 2022: The Digital Twin Journeys workstream has taken world leading research and turned it into accessible and useful information to enable those who are just starting out on their digital twin journeys to get ahead.

30 Jun 2022: 1 | Digital Twins and Service Innovation in Designing the Hospital of the Future. Digital Twins and Service Innovation in Designing the Hospital of the Future. Edwin L.S. Lee. Michael Barrett. Karl Prince. Eivor Oborn. Olivia Li. Peter Thomas. 2 |

24 Jan 2022: Sensor technology has come a long way over the last 30 years, from the world’s first, bulky webcam at the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department to near ubiquitous networks of sleek sensors that can provide data at an unprecedented

26 Apr 2022: The finance industry has long been at the forefront of using data and technology to make better decisions, to de-risk and improve return on investments, and to create better outcomes.

18 Mar 2022: The Construction Innovation Hub (the Hub) is launching a new Information Requirements tool to support client information managers in defining organisation, asset and project information requirements.

4 Feb 2022: Small companies in the construction sector are invited to discover how to introduce simple, low-cost digital solutions at an online workshop on Thursday 3 March. Join a virtual webinar at 1.30-3pm on Thursday 3 March to find out more about the

8 Mar 2022: Motion sensors, CO₂ sensors and the like are considered to be benign forms of monitoring, since they don’t capture images or personal data about us as we move through the buildings we visit. Or at least, that’s what we want to believe.

7 Feb 2022: The Global BIM Network’s inaugural General Assembly (GA) was held online on 2 December 2021.

5 Oct 2022: Off-site manufacturing (OSM) was introduced decades ago to improve productivity, consistency and quality. In production, OSM has seen success in the automotive and food and beverage sectors. In construction, OSM take-up has been far more limited.

1 Aug 2022: for Digital Built Britain’s IM programme, is available for download now and is open for comment via the Standards Development Portal until 31st of August. ... You can download and comment on the BSI Flex 1965: v1.0 2022 here.

4 Oct 2022: Development at the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge campus offered an opportunity to demonstrate and address challenges associated with the production of a National Digital Twin (NDT).

22 Sep 2022: For many engineering and manufacturing firms, digital transformation remains elusive. They struggle to emulate the success of platform-based consumer businesses such as Uber, AirBnB and Facebook.

31 Mar 2022: White Paper on Procurement Strategies for Incentivizing Collaborative Delivery to. Optimize Whole-life Outcomes. White Paper on Procurement Strategies for Incentivizing Collaborative Delivery to Optimize Whole-Life Outcomes. David Mosey 2022. This

17 Feb 2022: PRESS RELEASE The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, 10 March at 12.00pm – 1.00pm (GMT) to launch the Gemini Papers: a blueprint for the future. Industry professionals are being invited to attend the

12 Jul 2022: A new whitepaper explores how digital twin technology can play its role in the future of a service-oriented environment – highlighting the potential benefits and opportunities as well as the challenges that can arise when implementing innovative

5 Oct 2022: Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring to investigate large earth movements and monitor city-scale deformation is well established. The use of InSAR to monitor single infrastructure assets has been less well understood.

31 Mar 2022: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) as a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub is pleased to announce the launch of a multi-party ‘Integrated Information Management Contract’ (‘IIMC’), developed by the King’s College London

10 Jan 2022: Digital twins are not just a useful resource for understanding the sakthy.jpg here-and-now of built assets. If an asset changes condition or position over its lifecycle, historical data from remote sensors can make this change visible to asset

7 Jul 2022: The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, on behalf of CDBB, hosted a stakeholder round table discussion about Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) on 27th April 2022.

12 Apr 2022: A cross-sector leadership community is beginning a new chapter in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), working to stimulate change and drive digital innovation across the built environment sector.