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6 Apr 2020: As Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues impact the construction industry, a number of resources have been made available to provide accurate information on what you can do to support your business.

22 Jun 2020: Research background Matthew Danish is a Research Associate within the Networks and Operating Systems group of the Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He is interested in systems verification, sensor networks,

14 Sep 2020: Anne joined the National Digital Twin Programme at CDBB in May 2020 as a Senior Project co-ordinator of the Change Stream. Her role is to support the Change Stream Lead with the objective of facilitating the changes required to enable the

15 Dec 2020: An interactive web-enabled toolkit which provides the requisite functionality for clients to dynamically generate their own personalised business case for investing in a digital twin.

19 May 2020: Our Challenge Running behind the scenes of digital assets would be vital and huge infrastructure comparable to the power grid and sewers that connect and serve the built environment.

28 Aug 2020: Full Summer 2020 Newsletter Summer News Update - Introduction: screenshot_2020-08-28_at_13.13.47.png I am pleased to welcome you to the Summer edition of the CDBB newsletter.

15 Apr 2020: In November 2018 Government announced a £72m award from UKRI to the Construction Innovation Hub, a four-year programme of work to transform the construction sector as part of the Industrial Strategy.

22 Jun 2020: Research background A human geographer by background, Dr Sabina Maslova's research interests include migrant housing, professional migration, housing decision-making, expatriates, residential mobility, and transnational work. She holds a PhD (cum

18 Sep 2020: The purpose of this work is to understand the breadth and depth of skills and roles required to successfully develop, implement and operate an Information Management Framework (IMF) and working towards a National Digital Twin as an ecosystem of

30 Jan 2020: READ - Blog by Professor McFarlane on the this event. One-day workshop: Low-cost automation for SME's Digital Construction on a Shoestring is an approach to increasing the digital capabilities of companies in the construction sector by deploying

22 Oct 2020: This tender is for the development of a Global Digital Platform.

22 Jul 2020: The Buildings Client Group is a cross-sector leadership community working together to stimulate effective changes across the built environment. It aims to connect individuals who are leading digital adoption within their organisation.

19 May 2020: Our Challenge To support a flourishing society, economy and natural environment, substantial changes must occur across our cities and infrastructure in order to enable them to be more energy and material efficient, to be more durable and resilient

26 Aug 2020: You can watch the sessions from last year’s Digital Construction Summit, look at last year’s programme and download the presentations at the links below. ... To view and download last year's presentations visit:.

7 Jan 2020: You can also subscribe to the CDBB YouTube Channel.

22 Jun 2020: Sakthy Selvakumaran (MEng, CEng, MICE, PhD) is the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and the Founder of tech start-up BKwai: a software platform providing visualisations and data analytics for instrumentation

25 May 2020: This research network contributes to developing the research agenda, enhancing the level of performance and digitisation for future smart cities and smart construction at citizen, portfolio, organisation and project levels.

19 May 2020: Our Challenge We share and create more data than ever before, and businesses have already taken advantage, piecing together insights about our individual shopping habits, lifestyles and interests.

22 Jun 2020: I have a MSc and a PhD in Geomatics Engineering-Remote Sensing. I have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds since July 2019 and working with CDBB from Feb 2020. My research background is in monitoring crustal deformation

2 Jul 2020: Computational Modelling group Prof Markus Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is the director of CARES ltd., the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre.

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

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

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 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’

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

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