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4 Nov 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain, as part of the Construction Innovation Hub, is supporting a ground-breaking commercial development.

24 May 2020: The Housing Digital Built Britain Network focused its attention on residential housing. It brought together academics, practitioners, policy makers and government to facilitate dialogue and determine the key areas of inquiry.

24 May 2020: This project develops probabilistic master-planning tools to support effective implementation of energy policies in UK cities. It integrates high-dimensional data that spans environmental features, physical form & land-use, socio-demographics, and

28 Jan 2020: Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects cdbb_wp_040_thayla_zomer_imagex300.jpg Our January Monthly paper is a working paper by Thalya Zomer, Andy Neely, Ajith Parlikad and Veronica Martinez.

10 Sep 2020: ARCOM Kwadwo paper.png The paper 'Offsite manufacturing and construction industry transformation: a multi-level socio-technical transitions perspective' has been published in the Proceedings of the 36th Annual ARCOM Conference.

25 May 2020: This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin.

26 Mar 2020: BIM processes need to be structured and customised according to specific client information requirements, but preliminary engagement with high-performing clients and teams has indicated slow uptake in adoption against the ... Basic questions are still

29 Jul 2020: How information requirements are identified and communicated . How information is shared between organisations .

14 Feb 2020: inefficiently. The requirements for materials in construction could be reduced to achieve Absolute Zero by avoiding over-specification and over-design, by structural optimisation and with re-use.” (p28).

25 May 2020: One cause of over-engineering is a cumulative effect of different stakeholders adding margins to the requirements and the specification of the system to mitigate against their own risks. ... The stakeholders often know that their system is overdesigned,

25 May 2020: This project improved the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment.

23 Jun 2020: Following severe damages caused by climate cycle El Nino in Peru in 2017, yesterday the Department for International Trade (DIT) signed a Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement with the Government of Peru to support the crucial reconstruction of

7 Dec 2020: To share UK BIM Framework compliant approaches to information requirements (IR), enabling increased interoperability thanks to information being procured in a standardised and repeatable way.

25 May 2020: This project aims to develop a Balanced Score Card (BSC) to support the adoption of automation in construction.

23 Nov 2020: The ISO therefore specifies the principles and requirements for security-minded management of sensitive information that is obtained, created, processed and stored as part of, or in relation to, an initiative,

26 Aug 2020: Mark Enzer, Head of the National Digital Twin Programme, CDBB, will be presenting at this years Transforming Construction Network + Embracing a Movement for Change Conference.

7 Dec 2020: To identify, assess, and promote conformity to standards supporting interoperability, including identifying current gaps and overlaps, and make recommendations to progress on any development required at UK, CEN or ISO level.

23 Apr 2020: Ron Lang, Impact Director for Value at the Construction Innovation Hub, introduces the Hub's Value Theme. As we start a new financial year, I find myself reflecting on just how far we’ve come at the Construction Innovation Hub.

25 May 2020: This research will be further extended to the development of a decision-making assessment tool to measure capabilities and requirements in the entire lifecycle of built assets.

11 Sep 2020: Construction must adopt digital tools to prepare the way for information and automation technologies that deliver value.

12 Feb 2020: CDBB is partnering with Bouygues on a host of digital activities to demonstrate how virtual reality and gaming pursuits can be adapted and utilised in the construction industry.

24 May 2020: 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.

3 Jun 2020: Osmose is a project aimed at building a new operating system for situated environments that can handle the demands of thousands of sensors and actuators that need to run in a coordinated and highly reliable fashion.

2 Sep 2020: Mark Enzer’s presentation underlined the requirement within the NDT concept of secure and resilient data-sharing among all stakeholders, including data exchange between the digital twin and the physical twin,

29 Jul 2020: R&D efforts must now focus on developing technologies specific to the requirements of the AEC sectors[3]. ... It outlines the use-cases in which AR and VR can be used in the AEC sectors and a set of research topics necessary to meet the requirements for

25 May 2020: In this project we define ‘built form’ as the assemblage of individual buildings and structures in the built environment and we make use of a wide range of new insights and data to model the evolution of the built form in Britain.

5 Mar 2020: Ahead of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival and following the success of the Construction Innovation Hub’s support of Futurebuild 2020, Alexandra Bolton, Executive Director at the Centre for Digital Built Britain, considers skills and

28 Aug 2020: Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton, was instrumental in the development of the World Wide Web.

11 Mar 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain works in partnership with the Infrastructure Client Group's Digital Transformation Task Group (DTTG) on the National Digital Twin Programme and its Digital Twin Hub.

5 May 2020: What would an autonomous vehicle’s dream city look like? Autonomous navigation is a hard problem that is compounded by the unpredictability and dynamics of urban environments.

25 May 2020: advances. Pre-existing relationships with these asset owners meant that user requirements could be taken into account during the design phase.

10 Apr 2020: screenshot_2020-08-18_at_15.18.54.png Abstract Edge computing and Federated Learning (FL) can work in tandem to address issues related to privacy and collaborative distributed learning in untrusted IoT environments.

27 Aug 2020: The University of Cambridge is approaching the market to engage with potential suppliers for the provision of a report on the economic impact of the implementation of Building Information Management (BIM).

25 May 2020: The digital disruption of traditional norms fuels arguments that digital technology gives rise to completely new collaborative models and has significant impact on construction procurement systems.

26 Aug 2020: Mark Enzer, Head of the National Digital Twin Programme will be presenting at NAFEMS UK Conference 2020, which will be focusing on 'Inspiring Innovation through Engineering Simulation'. Mark will be the keynote on day one of the event.

23 May 2020: The goal of this project is to develop two separate current frameworks for practice, policy and future research under the umbrella theme of ancillary (additional) sensing for BIM.

10 Nov 2020: Building a Sustainable, Net Zero London The UK is legally committed to being zero carbon by 2050. Engineered Timber is the only large-scale construction material that can be grown.

19 Aug 2020: What is the Information Management Framework (IMF)?

12 Sep 2020: Blog: From Thayla Zomer on this paper and research Abstract screenshot_2020-10-12_at_15.09.59.png Most existing research on built environment policy has focused on the independent variable - policy formulation - and assumed that the prescriptions

14 Aug 2020: screenshot_2020-04-17_at_11.25.18.png CDBB, a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub, has published The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Interoperability Report for consultation.

13 Jun 2020: This report explores the capabilities required to specify, procure, design, deliver and manage services based on, and embedded in, the built environment in order to optimise effectiveness, efficiency and productivity for their stakeholders, whilst

8 Jul 2020: Abstract screenshot_2020-08-14_at_17.31.51.png Visual inspection and human judgement form the cornerstone of daily operations and maintenance (O&M) services activities carried out by facility managers nowadays.

1 Jun 2020: Research background Drawing on the literature on dynamic capabilities and digital transformation, this paper conceptualises and investigates the relevant antecedents of an essential capability for digital transformation – the digital transforming

3 Jun 2020: Bridge collapses are expensive and often tragic events that need to be avoided by detecting faults early. This project aims to create a coordinated aerial swarm system to inspect the cracks in bridge structures, improving the monitoring coverage and

23 May 2020: How can digital twins address city-level problems such as transportation planning as work patterns change? This project represents an early trial to address the research gap on city-level digital twins.

24 May 2020: What part does city and regional governance play in how a city-level digital twin develops?

6 Feb 2020: CDBB has awarded Atkins and Orndance Survey the tender to support the research into the benefits of creating a National Digital Twin of the UK's infrastructure.

24 May 2020: While digital technology is springing up in the private rented sector and potentially providing various benefits, there is still a trust barrier when it comes to tenants sharing their data.

23 May 2020: This project builds on a tool developed by two Cambridge PhD students that allows for the generation of high-resolution geographical data heat maps. These heat maps can help to solve optimisation problems relevant to citizens’ everyday lives.

7 Dec 2020: To understand the lifecycle of information across all assets and join the dots to make our current data structures work. Reviewing and developing tools with a clear emphasis on education across all levels removing the barriers which currently