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2 Apr 2019: Following the announcement that Mott MacDonald has been appointed delivery partner for the UK Global Infrastructure Programme, Adam Matthews, Head of CDBB International, welcomes the news.

1 Mar 2019: In her monthly round-up of activities at the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Alexandra Bolton, Deputy Director at CDBB, welcomes the latest report from the National Infrastructure Commission and looks forward to talking digital transformation at

4 Apr 2019: Data will drive future decisions, not simply ‘custom and practice’. And when we do need to build new assets – be they schools, hospitals or highways – we need to think of how

25 Jan 2019: Following the formation of the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG) Alexandra Bolton, Deputy Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain, sets out the next steps in defining the Information Management Framework for a digital built Britain.

11 Jan 2019: a platform for industry professionals to come together and learn more about the construction landscape and new methods and technologies that bring change. ... Digital Market and Data Protection, where we announced new partnerships with NBS (National

29 May 2019: The event, part of CDBB Week, aims to drive collaboration between government, academia and industry, offering delegates unique opportunities to forge new business relationships with digital twin pioneers.

1 Feb 2019: In this month’s blog we hear from Fiona Moore, CDBB’s BIM Programme Manager, who discusses her thoughts on the importance of BIM in construction and how a change management approach can be key in making progress and releasing the benefits of BIM.

17 Jan 2019: The well-attended event, which took place in New Delhi in December last year, was announced by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Theresa May in April 2018 as a major initiative ... was invited to attend the event to explore commercial, investment,

31 Jan 2019: New terminology. Terry Stocks, CDBB BIM L2 Programme Lead, presented on using the PwC BIM Level 2 Benefits Measurement Methodology [BMM].

1 Oct 2019: The latter, is from our own experience, the factor that is not focused on enough and all too often organisations are too focused on technology and adopt one bit of new

12 Apr 2019: Digital Twins facilitate a new way to understand the environment within which we are operating, and to better identify the effect that decisions may have before undertaking significant investment. ... When wide adoption of a new technique looks to happen

14 Nov 2019: Interesting new ecosystems can be seen emerging in the built environment market.

25 May 2019: exploits new and emerging digital construction and manufacturing skills and technology to reduce costs and increase productivity;. ... champions human-centric design of infrastructure and the services they deliver;. grows new career business and export

31 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

31 May 2019: The 2017 Scottish BIM mandate brought focus to using digital tools for infrastructure management across the Scottish Government, which is in the process of redesigning the planning system through a new

4 Feb 2019: The second session focussed on the new ISO 19650 standards. Dr Anne Kemp - BIM Strategy & Development Director, Atkins, provided the context for the new standards and emphasised the importance of collaboration

21 Nov 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

7 Mar 2019: Learn more: (link to blog/news). Approach Stream Lead, Miranda Sharp, Ordnance Survey . ... Learn more: (link to blog/news). Enablers Stream Lead, to be announced soon.

23 Jan 2019: CDBB has published the first output of its Digital Framework Task Group, The Gemini Principles. The paper sets out proposed principles to guide the national digital twin and the information management framework that will enable it.

22 Feb 2019: Reporting on Data for the Public Good – the Commission’s response to government’s request to identify new technologies that have potential to improve the productivity of the UK’s infrastructure

15 Feb 2019: The CDBB International programme engages with countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, North America and Africa. Adam Matthews, head of the International team, reports on the latest collaboration in Uruguay.

8 Feb 2019: BSI as our National Standards Body triggered this as a new work item within ISO as the international standards organisation, and then through what is known as the Vienna Agreement at

14 Mar 2019: Mark Enzer, CTO at Mott MacDonald and Digital Director at the Centre for Digital Built Britain Mark is a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models and he is particularly interested in transformational change in the

31 May 2019: He delivered several million pounds-worth of procurement savings during his tenure and enabled the University to exploit a number of new technologies and platforms.

26 Mar 2019: The March Paper in the CDBB Publication Series is by Andy Neely, who looks at how AR and VR can allow us to build beautiful.

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

21 Nov 2019: support the development of new and emergent techniques within the infrastructure research domain.

3 Apr 2019: DAFNI is funded by EPSRC as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities. At the conference we will launch DAFNI 1.0, which is the culmination of 2 years of software development by DAFNI's delivery team at STFC.

20 Nov 2019: Joan Lasenby received her undergraduate BA degree and Part III qualification, in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. Her PhD was in Radio and Molecular Studies of the Galactic Centre at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (now the

27 Jun 2019: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury announces launch of the Centre for Digital Built Britain' Digital Framework Task Group during visit to the University of Cambridge, (2.38m)

18 Mar 2019: Innovation in construction helps the industry to increase safety and work more efficiently making better use of resource to lower carbon impact while creating new businesses opportunities. ... New techniques are emerging to do this using nanopores,

3 Jun 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

21 Nov 2019: James is an Advisory for the National Digital Twin programme.

21 Nov 2019: Tom is the lead for the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub), a part of the National Digital Twin programme. In this role Tom is responsible for the continued growth of the DT Hub community, enabling knowledge sharing within the community, and advancing the DT

1 Oct 2019: Setting a pathway to better information management The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG) has set out a pathway to better information management and guidance on digital twin adoption.

28 Jan 2019: Building on the pilot CDBB project PolyChora which has developed an alpha-version of a new digital interface for visualising changes in land use, buildings and transport infrastructure, this project aims ... to (a) develop a fully-fledged new digital

29 Jan 2019: CDBB Cambridge Science Festival. CDBB will be hosting an afternoon at the Science Festival, which focuses on robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and new technologies are transforming the way we will

29 Mar 2019: The shape of future architecture, engineering and construction was subject of the Construction Engineering Masters Annual Debate

31 May 2019: The impact of his research includes successful translation to new products and services for companies and organisations such as, for example, National Cash Registers and Amazon, as well as providing essential ... transmission, new material

22 Feb 2019: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) is pleased to announce their BIM Roundtable Discussion Series in association with the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

14 Nov 2019: He worked for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in New Delhi and Hyderabad for 5 years on non-profit heritage conservation and environmental development projects. ... Kingdom and is currently Research Associate on a project developing Precision Engineered

21 Nov 2019: Peter leads the National Digital Twin programme at CDBB. He is responsible for the delivery and strategic alignment of the programme. Peter's background is in civil engineering with a PhD in data-driven asset management. He is experienced in

31 May 2019: Alexandra joined the National Digital Twin Programme at CDBB in May 2019. She is the Programme Manager for the DT Hub. Her role is to support the DTHub Chair and the Stream Delivery Lead in starting up and developing the newly born DTHub Community.

25 Sep 2019: Companies can see the opportunities that are being created in this new experience and platform-led economy, and at the same time they can see the threat of new competition emerging ... the kind of service transformation shift demanded of them in the new

11 Dec 2019: Neil Thompson. Neil has nearly 20 years of experience in implementing new technology and processes in the construction industry.

19 Nov 2019: Research Background Didem cares about the future of the world and nature. She is a computer scientist with a Ph.D. in mechatronics, which can give you an idea about how much she loves to talk about the future and emerging technologies. She is a data

8 Nov 2019: There are some exciting new research projects commencing and we have brief details of some of these, along with the new researchers, later in this newsletter. ... The launch of the new UK BIM Framework website brings together overarching approach to

2 Aug 2019: Find out about the latest news from CDBB on events, our blogs, recent reports and more in the CDBB's August 2019 Newsletter.

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

7 Mar 2019: Presenters: James HeatonInstitute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge ‘The use of BIM and asset classification within a Smart Cities framework’Dr Isolda Agusti Juan The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University