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10 Sep 2018: The 2019 International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) will bring together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing.

1 Jun 2018: 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 Jun 2018: 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

9 Aug 2018: If you missed our Summer Showcase, or would just like to watch the fast-paced presentations once again, then you can now watch the presentations here, along with the summary video of the day.

1 Jun 2018: 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

3 Jul 2018: I look forward to sharing more news about this important work in the future.

10 Dec 2018: vision.png Project background 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

12 Nov 2018: We’ll be supporting new research projects, organising ‘discovery days’ and providing exceptional support so that our activities continue into the future – spanning digital, construction, energy, and manufacturing. ... Importantly, the Network

5 Jul 2018: Digitisation of Requirements, Regulations and Compliance Checking Processes in the Built Environment. The D-COM network has been formed to drive forward the adoption of the digitization of regulations, requirements and compliance checking systems in

5 Jul 2018: The National Infrastructure Commission report, Data for the Public Good, (December 2017), considered AR and VR as key new technologies to increase the productivity of infrastructure and support decision-making.

8 Jun 2018: Creating a model where a service outcome can be described will create new challenges. ... Understand the ethical issues that will arise when the new business and service model enabled with standardisation.

7 Dec 2018: 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 Jun 2018: 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

25 Jul 2018: The Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) invites proposals to draft reports which describe the capabilities the UK will need to create, exploit and enjoy digital built Britain over the next several decades, the research agenda needed to

5 Jul 2018: The Pedagogy and Upskilling Network bid proposes to contribute to the work of the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) by exploring and addressing the research questions around how we create and support a digitally enabled, agile, effective and

30 Jan 2018: 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

7 Feb 2018: We analyse the accessibility to Cambridge University’s new research centres; the criticality of roads leading to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge; and the accessibility to different critical assets in Hertfordshire.

31 May 2018: 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

30 Jan 2018: We believe that new software tools are pivotal in addressing three core challenges for researchers utilising ML in the built environment. ... 3. Store and display data, models and estimates. The output of this project already facilitated new academic

5 Jul 2018: in the context of existing (and new, if necessary) project and organisational processes.

30 Jan 2018: Potential benefits include reduced construction costs and time efficiencies, fewer design clashes and costly reworking on site, greater accuracy in design and build, and fewer defects in new homes.

18 Dec 2018: 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

30 Jan 2018: The project aims to understand the extent to which the UK planning system is engaging with BIM at different spatial scales (e.g., individual building, development scheme, city, region). It explores how the planning system could better help deliver

25 Jan 2018: 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

4 May 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge is working with BRE Ltd and the Manufacturing Technology Centre under the name of ‘Transforming Construction Alliance’ to develop a bid for the recently-announced Core

9 Feb 2018: Building on four years of material generated by the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and Environment, this report examines the future use of big data in the built environment. Experts from academia, government and private companies were invited to

11 Jul 2018: screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.16.53.png Project background 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

31 May 2018: urban_planning_and_bim.png Project background The project aimed to understand the extent to which the UK planning system is engaging with BIM at different spatial scales (e.g., individual building, development scheme, city, region).

1 Dec 2018: Capability and capacity of skilled and knowledgeable digital workers was still seen as a constraint in driving BIM adoption and need for academia to be producing new entrants with these qualities. ... Some of the organisations around the table had

6 Sep 2018: 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

30 Jan 2018: This project developed The Edge as a case study for CDBB, not only for the sake of information on the building alone, but also to use it as a template to build the “standard case study template.” When we consider other buildings, we can

9 Feb 2018: This project initiated some baseline data gathering and primary analysis of the ways in which off-the-shelf IOT sensors are going to generate and distribute data, the services they will invoke, and the infrastructure dependencies that will thus be

12 Apr 2018: 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 Jul 2018: Infrastructure assets are typically capital intensive investments with long lifetimes – they include both single megaprojects, or resource allocation across multiple options for smaller projects. Megaprojects also have public and private

9 Feb 2018: These new non-traditional (i.e. census data) datasets also have been introduced as a data source in the recent urban analysis, which cannot only provide geo-coded geographic information for

6 Dec 2018: 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 Jul 2018: The network will build on CCHPR’s recent research for CDBB, which looked at the need for innovation in construction and experimentation with new forms of housing delivery, such as modular ... With today's society facing the prospect of housing an

30 Jan 2018: Rapid redesign is then required to provide new construction plans. The newest version of CIRIA 760 clearly outlines a process for using the OM from the start as a pro-active

8 Feb 2018: The principal novel aspect of this research project is the creation of a ‘toolkit’ of digital sensors and other methods for capturing overall occupant response in terms of comfort, satisfaction, productivity and well‐being. The toolkit

17 Jun 2018: 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 Dec 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) are teaming up for a programme of high-level ‘roundtable’ discussions, which aim to further accelerate adoption of the Government’s digital strategy for

1 Dec 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) teamed up for the third event “The Consultant” in a programme of high-level ‘roundtable’ discussions, which aim to further accelerate adoption of the

25 May 2018: These new international standards will be accompanied by a UK National Annex and UK Transition Guidance. ... The new modules are under development and will be available from the CDBB website over the next few months.

8 Feb 2018: This project aims to build multiple sensors that are microphones and ways to interrogate the acoustic environment into wearable technologies for the hearing impaired subjects. These will also talk to microphones placed in the building's walls. With

21 Feb 2018: 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

30 Jan 2018: BIM can give a new momentum to rethink the future city development.

8 Jun 2018: 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

9 Aug 2018: 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 Dec 2018: 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 Mar 2018: designing_safe.png Project background Using the principles of universal design, this project aims to create a VR environment that reduces usability issues such as balance in order to test virtual built environment designs with users who have a