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10 Mar 2022: The mobilisation of an active, collaborative community from across academia, the public and private sectors has been remarkable to watch and be part of and I am sure that both new

4 Mar 2022: On 30th September 2022, the Centre for Digital Built Britain completes its mission to advance the digital transformation of the built environment.

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

12 Sep 2022: The new Shoestring Unit, embedded in the Institute for Manufacturing, continues to refine the design for an interface that can help construction-industry users identify and implement solutions independently (that is, ... Construction is not well known

31 Mar 2022: The design for a new school extention at the Fawcett Primary School in Cambridge uses engineered timber to create flexible and adaptable spaces.

27 Sep 2022: From 31 March 2022, CDBB moved into its final phase – passing the baton on to new organisations, while completing our work within the Construction Innovation Hub.

4 Feb 2022: Join us on for an all day Hackathon on Friday 4th March to explore one of the biggest challenges we face as an industry: Information Interoperability.

22 Sep 2022: This project developed a framework designed to help scale the value of digital twins beyond operational efficiency towards new revenue streams. ... These include an overview (2020), a feature on business model archetypes (March 2021), and digital twins

18 Mar 2022: A new Information Requirements Tool for the Information Management Community. Submitted by Jo Daye on Fri, 18/03/2022 - 13:00. ... The Construction Innovation Hub (the Hub) is launching a new Information Requirements tool to support client information

11 Mar 2022: CDBB was created to drive forward the digitalisation of the built environment to create a better future for people and the planet. In the past five years, it has brought together people from across industry, academia, and policy to meet that goal.

5 Oct 2022: The value-based model developed by CDBB researchers assesses new capabilities, new organisational structures, processes and cultures. ... This enables new digital services benefiting from digital and data-driven capabilities to analyse data at scale,

16 Mar 2022: This physical and digital book celebrates the extraordinary progress we have made with our partners in industry, academia and government in creating a solid foundation for a digital built Britain.

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 Mar 2022: We found that the UK excels at investing in start-ups which enables a host of new services and products to emerge into the market. ... The opportunity to take risks and try new things is central to the sector meeting its sustainability and productivity

22 Sep 2022: In the long run, for many engineering firms, digital twins must also offer new business model opportunities such as increased revenue streams and profitability beyond increased efficiencies and safety.

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

24 Mar 2022: Winners: Team Accountable Futures. Problem: How can new builds achieve net-zero?

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).

21 Apr 2022: As key investors, the finance community has an opportunity to realise the benefits of digital twins by using them to add value, track sustainability targets, attract new investments, and manage risk

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,

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

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

28 Feb 2022: How to integrate and interface several new construction methods? How to best combine research and industry resources and expertise? ... What new forms of collaboration can be identified from such a diverse multi-disciplinary project?

4 Oct 2022: This includes developing new ways to support the different centres that work with Moorfields. ... Such changes also impact the ecosystem of care providers and lead to new responsibilities and roles being formed.

22 Sep 2022: Analysing the social context to transforming construction through digital innovation. The UK construction and housing industries lag behind most other fields in taking advantage of new technologies. ... BIM4Housing has created a Collaboration and

28 Mar 2022: From 31 March, CDBB moves to its final phase – passing the baton on to new organisations, while completing its work within the Construction Innovation Hub.

4 Oct 2022: Plans for Oriel, a new hub for eyecare, have been in development since 2011. ... The new site is between 6 underground stations, lying around 13 minutes’ walk from Kings Cross railway station.

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

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. ... It is vital for UK construction to take part in research – there is no

4 Oct 2022: Connecting digital twins requires new technologies and processes to curate, manage and enable interoperability of data from various sources. ... CDBB research has conclusively demonstrated possibilities for automatic asset anomaly detection by combining

12 Sep 2022: Working with SME partners in construction, the Shoestring research has generated new low-cost solutions and is compiling these into a Shoestring Digital Construction solutions catalogue.

31 Mar 2022: organisation. Adopting new ways of working may be considered as disruptive to an organisation that is already facing delivery pressures. ... New information is often added to systems; however, old and outdated information is not archived or deleted.

9 Feb 2022: This is not about building new schools and roads in a sustainable way, but equally about improving the operational performance of the built environment that already exists.

10 Feb 2022: The TIP Roadmap is broken into five key areas:. Delivering new economic infrastructure to drive improved outcomes for people and nature. ... As part of the £70m Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Devolution Grant, CIP committed to start on site to build

12 Apr 2022: CIOB and the Buildings Client Group develop a new partnership to drive digital adoption. ... grow new career, business and export opportunities for the UK. For more information, visit2024 University of Cambridge.

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

17 Jan 2022: Digital Twins Journeys: a new infographic on ecosystems of services enabled by connected digital twins. ... A new infographic presents a conception of how this might work in the future.

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

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

9 Mar 2022: Enabled by the Construction Innovation Hub (the Hub) the report details the positive impact accelerators can have on new companies - supporting entrepreneurs and enabling new services and products to enter the

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

22 Sep 2022: start. They instrumented two of the new bridges with fibre optic sensors to better understand their structural behaviour from the beginning of their service life. ... Combining structural and data-driven engineering analysis brings new opportunities to

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.

3 Mar 2022: We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. ... We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.

24 Jan 2022: The new webcomic ‘Coffee Time’ by Dave Sheppard, part of the Digital Twin Journeys series, tells the story of this evolution and what it means for what we can learn about ... Today, people in the Computer Lab still want to know when the coffee is

26 Apr 2022: As key investors, the finance community has an opportunity to realise the benefits of digital twins by using them to add value, track sustainability targets, attract new investments, and manage risk

5 Oct 2022: The research should support deployment of such technologies in future schemes such as the new high speed railway line (HS2). ... In addition, the researchers investigated how new metal reflector designs (creating satellite monitoring points) might

5 Oct 2022: New approaches, such as modular and off-site manufacturing, need to be adopted at scale, with digital technology and new services generating additional value. ... The answer lies in finding new ways of providing value: our research focuses on emerging

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: Keep an eye on the news page for the announcement of the next Global BIM Network event.