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15 Oct 2019: Reflecting on our inaugural ‘CDBB Week’ and looking forward to Digital Construction Week, Alexandra Bolton, Executive Director for the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) is positive about the digital transformation in the construction

22 Feb 2019: Dr Kate Parsley, Head of Engagement (maternity cover), reports on CDBB's preparations for Cambridge Science Festival - at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge at 1.30-4.30 on Saturday 23 March 2019.

15 Aug 2019: Rounding off CDBB Week 2019, we will highlight the key headlines and outcomes of the week’s in-person events and online activities via our social media channels, and launch additional videos, presentations and bonus content from each day of CDBB

7 Sep 2019: Android and iOS users:. Tap the "Download" button to download the free Guidebook app.

16 Oct 2019: Event and Livestream Invitation to join with representatives of local, state, and commonwealth governments, industry and academia, at the inaugural SEQ Digital Twin Industry Forum.

22 Jan 2019: January Paper in the CDBB Publication Series paper by Veronica Martinez and Andy Neely, Audrey Ouyang, University of Cambridge, Caroline Burstall, Caterpillar and Dav Bisessar, International Business Machines Corporation

2 Jul 2019: On Wednesday, 11 September we will celebrate the culmination of the BIM Roundtables Series in the gardens of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Hosted by Keith Waller, Programme Director of the Construction Innovation Hub, the event is intended to

6 Nov 2019: This is the first in a series of DT Hub Supply Chain Workshops. The workshop will provide an opportunity to learn more about CDBB’s National Digital Twin Programme, and to get involved in the start-up of newly launched Digital Twin Hub.

20 Nov 2019: Michael is Academic Director of Cambridge Digital Innovation and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as Head of the Organisation Theory & Information Systems group, Director (Associate

25 May 2019: The fifth of our series of nine BIM roundtable events was held on Tuesday 5th March and saw a group of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the construction sector discuss the advantages of being small when delivering BIM, along with

26 Mar 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

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

31 Jul 2019: Download Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery  - PRINT/OFFLINE VERSION. ... Download Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery - Single Page Pring/Offline Version.

25 Jun 2019: Background A significant amount of work has been conducted over the last year by the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), part of The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), in order to set the foundations and draft a plan (the Roadmap) for the

19 Dec 2019: GeminiPrinciplesimage.jpg To understand how transformative the Gemini Principles are to the development of digital twins, we looked at academic literature for any examples where digital twin implementations were based on similar precepts.

19 Jan 2019: From Norm to Swarm: development of a balanced scorecard for evaluating automation in construction. ECR project by Dr Isolda Agusti Juan, from The Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management, UCL

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

22 Nov 2019: Following the appointment of Manchester-headquartered consultancy Turner Harris to lead the Enablers stream of the National Digital Twin (NDT) Programme, CEO James Harris, Enablers stream lead, is looking forward to grappling some of the key

19 Jan 2019: Future cities in the making–overcoming barriers to information modelling in socially responsible cities. ECR Project by Dr Franziska Sielker from University of Cambridge.

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

16 Sep 2019: [Flikr Photos from the day] On 11 September, bathed in afternoon sunshine and amid the vibrant colours of St Catharine’s College’s gardens, CDBB and the Construction Innovation Hub hosted a reception for industry insiders, researchers and

11 Sep 2019: In the fourth of our CDBB Week 2019 International blog series telling the in-country experience of partner countries, Nayeli Mayorga, Policy officer for energy and infrastructure, British Embassy Mexico City reports on progress in Mexico

28 Jul 2019: Our July Monthly Paper is a working paper by Dr Timea Nochta, Nicole Badstuber and Dr Noura Wahby looking at city digital twins.

19 Nov 2019: Why interoperability is so important when delivering BIM. In this blog CDBB Change Consultant Fiona Moore introduces the BIM Interoperability Experts Group (BIEG) and the reasons behind its development.

15 Jul 2019: The Digital Twin Hub is a collaborative learning community, facilitated via an online portal, that will support collaboration related to the development, management and integration of digital twins for the built environment, including economic and

10 Oct 2019: Find out about what happened at CDBB Week in the October 2019 Newsletter. [View Newsletter] October 2019 Newsletter Introduction: This month we are reflecting on the events of our inaugural CDBB Week.

11 Sep 2019: Peru is working with CDBB International on its path towards digital and sustainable transformation. In the first CDBB Week 2019 International Blog Gianina Caballero, Programme & Project Coordinator for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)in Per

24 Sep 2019: A mysterious figure was spotted at every single event during CDBB week. Who was he, the CDBB team wanted to know, and what was he doing here? We tracked him down at the Summer Showcase and unmasked him as Professor Robert Amor, Head of the

18 Jun 2019: CDBB invites proposals to overview and plan the work of the Digital Twin Hub collaborative learning community, facilitated via an online portal, that will support collaboration related to the development, management and integration of digital twins

21 Jun 2019: In this weeks blog Alexandra Bolton introduces some of the activities planned for the inaugural CDBB Week, including CDBB’s Digital Framework Task Group at our National Digital Twin day and CDBB's popular Summer Research Showcase.

27 Jun 2019: Introducing the Centre for Digital Built Britain (12.3 min) Professor Andy Neely and Dr Mark Bew introduce the Centre and explain what a Digital Built Britain is, what the challenges are and how Cambridge will engage with its various stakeholders.

25 Apr 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.23.50.png Project background 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

29 May 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

1 Nov 2019: Following the UK BIM Framework’s publication of a refreshed Government Soft Landings (GSL) , lead author David Philp reflects on the report’s production and how the guidance therein supports maintenance of the ‘golden thread’ of a built

31 May 2019: future_cities_and_bim.png Project background 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.

19 Aug 2019: As part of ongoing work under the UK’s Transforming Construction Challenge and the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, a new thought-leadership blog from the Construction Innovation Hub will be launched on Tuesday, 10 September 2019.

23 Jul 2019: This will be published by the Centre for Digital Built Britain and the UK BIM Alliance and will be available for free download on our websites.

29 Jan 2019: This project develops probabilistic master-planning tools to support effective implementation of energy policies in UK cities.

19 Jan 2019: Research Calls CDBB invites proposals from eligible research teams, and early career researchers for research projects aligned with the CDBB mission 'to develop and demonstrate policy and practical insights that will enable the exploitation of new

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

30 Jan 2019: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.06.22.png Project background 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

5 Apr 2019: Click on the roadmap image below and download the interactive pdf (the interactive features work best in Adobe).

13 Sep 2019: As part of our series of CDBB International blogs to mark CDBB Week 2019, Andressa Mares Guia Milhomens, Coordinator and International Trade Analyst for the Ministry of Economy, Brazil, reflects on the in-country experience from Brazil setting out

19 Jan 2019: This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin.

11 Sep 2019: In a series of CDBB International blogs to mark CDBB Week 2019, a number of representatives from partner countries offer the in-country experience of collaborating to implement a national programme of digital change. Juan Camilo Pantoja, Project

11 Sep 2019: In the second of our CDBB Week 2019 International blog series telling the in-country experience of partner countries, Carolina Soto, Executive Director of Planbim Corfo reflects on the digital transformation journey to date in Chile.

25 Sep 2019: One Day Conference - Wednesday 16 October 2019 This one day conference will provide unique insights from leading service providers and offers a valuable opportunity to hear and discuss the latest developments in service thinking.

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.

31 Jan 2019: CDBB and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) teamed up again for the fourth event in a programme of high-level ‘roundtable’ discussions, which aim to further accelerate adoption of the Government’s digital strategy for the built

19 Jan 2019: IMMEDIATE Project: Integrated Management of Margins through Evaluation, DesIgn, Analysis, Tracking and nEgotiation