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6 Jan 2020: New Year Honour for Professor Andy Neely OBE. Submitted by Angela Walters on Mon, 06/01/2020 - 09:43. ... In the 2020 New Year Honours List Professor Andy Neely, FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the University, and

22 Jun 2020: Research background My primary area of research has been in the field of sensor data collection and analysis obtained from multi-modal sources. In my CDBB project, I am working on developing an architecture for real-time analysis of the data being

14 Sep 2020: Jo Dickson joined the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) in 2020 from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough councils where she led the internal communications for the two local authorities including supporting staff through the Covid-19 relief and

20 May 2020: A new report, The Pathway Towards an Information Management Framework: A Commons for a Digital Built Britain, sets out the technical approach for the development of an Information Management Framework (IMF)

23 Jun 2020: Not least with the support of the UK Government, significant new housing and commercial developments are proceeding with considerable momentum throughout the Greater Cambridge region. ... For example, construction of the largest "New Town" to be built in

4 Mar 2020: Rachel joined the National Digital Twin Programme at CDBB in February 2020. Rachel is a Project Manager for the National Digital Twin Programme. Rachel holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Leeds. Before joining CDBB, Rachel has worked

12 Nov 2020: screenshot_2020-11-12_at_09.16.31.png The local authority (LA) sector is large and diverse with 343 councils in England who collectively spent around £25bn on capital expenditure in 2017/2018 and approx. £4bn on building maintenance and operation

22 Jun 2020: Development of new methods for infrastructure monitoring by making use of available remote sensing satellite data.

16 Jul 2020: Author of Data for the public good which recommended the development of the National Digital Twin and the creation of the information management framework, Sarah is the Outreach Lead for the NDTp, working with stakeholders to enable greater

11 Dec 2020: This work occupies a new space in the scenario literature by considering the built environment in the context of an unprecedented climate and public health crisis, digitalisation and the UN’s

23 Jun 2020: Professor David Mosey PhD is Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at the Dickson Poon School of Law. He joined the Centre in May 2013 after spending 33 years as a specialist construction lawyer, including over 20 years

4 Mar 2020: Helena Brimson is an Administrator for the National Digital Twin Programme.

12 Oct 2020: Mark Enzer, Head of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) National Digital Twin programme and Chair of the Digital Framework Task Group has been awarded an OBE for services to national infrastructure in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list

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,

22 Jun 2020: Collaborative procurement models can also take full advantage of the new opportunities created by BIM and can respond efficiently to its challenges. ... As part of the Centre of construction Law Working Group and in association with Home Owners Alliance

19 May 2020: Digital infrastructure will bring together data from diverse sources to create new and valuable collective insights.

6 Apr 2020: The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has produced new guidance on the employment issues raised by the coronavirus crisis.

25 Feb 2020: Research background Prior to Cambridge, Vladimir did a Msc in physics at the University of Namur (Belgium) where he started to work on low-cost optical system for the monitoring of precious manuscripts. He then pursues a doctoral degree at

22 Jun 2020: Research background Dr Zakaria DAKHLI is a research associate in digital services and business models for off-site construction supporting the IfM (Institute for Manufacturing) and the CDBB (Centre for Digital Built Britain). Before joining 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.

18 Nov 2020: Research background Gokcen is a systems engineer with a PhD in Information Systems. Her research interests include software engineering, smart buildings and cities, and BIM. Her application areas comprise software process assessment, BIM capability

14 Sep 2020: Laura is a HR Coordinator for CDBB and Strategic Partnerships Office, and has joined us from the HR Administration team at the University. Her role includes coordinating recruitment and providing advice on HR policies and employment relations issues,

1 Dec 2020: The international programmme will launch its new Global BIM Network at the inaugural Global BIM Summit on 17 March. ... This is great news and shows the appetite there is in this fast-growing community which aims to accelerate learning around digital

17 Nov 2020: Blog: The Need for a Platform Approach to Construction - new survey reports published.

14 Sep 2020: Research background Dan Summerbell's background is in manufacturing operations. He has worked in a range of industries, across the UK, France, the US and Canada. He joined the Centre for Industrial Sustainability in 2017 to work on carbon efficeincy

30 Jan 2020: Most recently he has become PI on the new Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring programme which is seeking to use off the shelf commercial digital technologies to provide low cost digital

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

19 May 2020: In order to achieve this, we needed to explore new ways of collecting and interpreting data to better understand where improvements can be made. ... As of 2019, the UK Government has committed to a “presumption in favour” of off-site construction for

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

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.

29 Jul 2020: UK BIM Framework publishes new resource to support BIM training providers. ... Nicola Pearson, Head of Skills and Knowledge Transfer for CDBB, said: “As many in the training and higher education sector are starting to plan courses for the new year, we

24 Sep 2020: This will be co-developed with industrial partners to create new integrated, digitally-enabled manufactured components and sub-assemblies. ... This market will be underpinned by new business models, an upskilled workforce, new methods for product

19 May 2020: The project focuses on how new technology, in particular, telemedicine and AI which is transforming how Moorfields’ services are being provided to visually-impaired patients at the organisational frontline.

22 Jun 2020: These roles range from designing new structures on mega-projects like the Crossrail train line in London to working on sites to reconstruct housing destroyed by earthquakes in Peru. ... She has also worked in industry R&D roles for a construction company,

22 Jun 2020: Submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment). Zahra Sadeghi, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Andrew Hooper, Juan.M Lopez-Sanchez, “A New Polarimetric Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Method using Temporal Coherence Optimisation”, IEEE ... Zahra Sadeghi

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

16 Nov 2020: Every construction and infrastructure project must source information on buried utility assets (e.g. cables, pipes, sewers, ducts) when preparing ground investigation and excavation work in order to avoid costly damage to assets, and to safeguard

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.

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.

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.

22 Jun 2020: He used the social construction of technology (SCOT) approach to explore the complex interactions embedded in a project-based attempt to transfer technology into a new environment.

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

11 Dec 2020: The carbon footprint for reusing steel components, for example, is much lower than for creating new ones. ... While the SDGs set targets for reducing poverty and environmental destruction, Green New Deal-style policies attempt to address both crises

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3 Jun 2020: PolyChora Alpha: a new digital interface for interdisciplinary city design. The aim of this project was to develop a new digital interface to integrate the data and visualisation of the designs ... The focus of the work is the new method and tool for

16 Apr 2020: CDBB, a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub, has published The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Interoperability Report.

26 Aug 2020: CDBB is pleased to be a partner for Digital Construction Summit 2020, which is an annual event for digital decision-makers in the built environment sector. ​Following the Covid-19 outbreak, we postponed our 2020 event, planned for 3 June, in line

19 Oct 2020: Submitted by Angela Walters on Mon, 19/10/2020 - 15:03. New research by Thayla Zomer, a PhD researcher at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), University of Cambridge, Professor ... In other words, project stakeholders engaged with the pressures

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 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