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12 Sep 2022: creating digital solutions that can be repeated, reused, and integrated . The process begins with a Requirements workshop with representatives from a collection of companies, to identify needs and priorities for the

22 Sep 2022: For many engineering and manufacturing firms, digital transformation remains elusive. They struggle to emulate the success of platform-based consumer businesses such as Uber, AirBnB and Facebook.

31 Mar 2022: Examples include the upcoming UK Government Building Safety Bill and the requirement for the delivery, management and updating of the ‘Golden Thread’ of asset information along with additional requirements included in ... In addition, unprecedented

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: Share your priorities and requirements, and hear from companies who have participated in pilot projects.

12 Sep 2022: Derek Godfrey, Business Development Director at Vulcan Ellis. Requirement workshops and/or webinars were hosted by:.

27 Sep 2022: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) completed its five-year mission on 30th September 2022. Our website is now focused on looking back at our achievements and recalling our five hectic, inspiring, and hugely rewarding years, during which we

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.

5 Oct 2022: An outcome-based business model shifts construction from a centralised model, in which project requirements are fulfilled according to the location of the contractor and subcontractors available in the region, to ... is needed, and on the interests,

10 Mar 2022: The Gemini Papers set the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s vision for the future, showcasing the vital role that connected digital twins play in improving social, economic, and environmental outcomes, to create a better quality of life for all.

22 Sep 2022: The bigger and more complicated the engineering problem, the more likely it is to have a digital twin. Firms that build rockets, planes and ships, for example, have been creating digital twins since the early 2000s, seeing significant operational

31 Mar 2022: A Construction Innovation Hub enabled project by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Natural Material Innovation (CNMI) aims to showcase the benefits of modular school design and construction through a demonstrator project at a primary school

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.

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.

9 Mar 2022: Henry Fenby-Taylor, the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Head of Information Management explores the start-up ecosystem in construction and how a new report from the Construction Innovation Hub can help those looking to set up or invest in

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: “We’re either a massive brake or accelerator on climate resilience depending on our actions.” The UK’s built environment, of which the construction sector is a significant component, contributes approximately 40% of our nation’s carbon

21 Apr 2022: performance and reliability; and complying with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements.

31 Mar 2022: assets’ and the 2020 Construction Playbook requirement to ‘align objectives, success measures, targets and incentives so as to enable joint work on improving value and reducing risk’.

12 Jul 2022: A new whitepaper explores how digital twin technology can play its role in the future of a service-oriented environment – highlighting the potential benefits and opportunities as well as the challenges that can arise when implementing innovative

18 May 2022: This is followed by the creation of a more detailed requirements specification and then a solution design. ... These re-usable components can either be used to develop a quality management tool for another construction SME or be easily configured based

10 Jan 2022: Digital twins are not just a useful resource for understanding the sakthy.jpg here-and-now of built assets. If an asset changes condition or position over its lifecycle, historical data from remote sensors can make this change visible to asset

28 Mar 2022: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) is celebrating completing its five-year mission in 2022 by reflecting on its role in setting the foundations and direction of travel or the next chapter in the digital transformation of the built

12 Apr 2022: A cross-sector leadership community is beginning a new chapter in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), working to stimulate change and drive digital innovation across the built environment sector.

7 Jul 2022: The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, on behalf of CDBB, hosted a stakeholder round table discussion about Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) on 27th April 2022.

17 Jan 2022: By 2050, an estimated 4.1 million people will be affected by sight loss in the UK, making up a portion of the 14.1 smarthospital_panels_v4-page-001.jpg million disabled people in the UK.

22 Sep 2022: Engineered timber offers a cost-effective solution to the UK’s building needs, improving construction productivity and performance.

22 Sep 2022: Digital innovation brings opportunities to improve productivity and predictability in construction. Yet the sector has been slow to change. The problem is not purely technical; digital transformation is also a social, cultural, economic and

22 Sep 2022: providing a series of steps that are essential requirements to successful BIM and OSC adoption and implementation.”.

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,

22 Sep 2022: A major rail upgrade programme to remove a bottleneck on the West Coast Main Line saw collaboration between Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, Volker Rail and Network Rail.

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: This blog by Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Konrad Graser identifies the DFAB House project in Switzerland as a case study which captures learning for faciliating the digitalisation of offsite manufacturing aligned to the Construction Innovation Hub's

22 Sep 2022: The essential requirements of classroom space are established by government, making it feasible to develop a portfolio of designs that can be implemented in different locations and manufacture school-oriented construction

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

4 Oct 2022: The century-old Moorfields Eye Hospital is relocating from its current home in London’s Old Street to a two-acre site at St Pancras Hospital, in the King’s Cross area.

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

4 Oct 2022: Plans for Oriel, a new hub for eyecare, have been in development since 2011. A design team was appointed in 2019, offering CDBB-funded researchers based at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School a timely opportunity to explore what

3 Mar 2022: We are pleased to announce that from 1 April 2022, the DT Hub will transition from its current home at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) to an Industry/Catapult partnership housed at the Connected Places Catapult (CPC).

10 Feb 2022: Market health and capability assessments. Can the market to respond to your requirements? ... Cambridge City Council has developed requirements that reflect the TIP ‘systems of system’ approach.

4 Oct 2022: From 2018 to March 2022, the Centre for Digital Built Britain led the National Digital Twin Programme on behalf of the UK Government.

18 Mar 2022: A new Information Requirements Tool for the Information Management Community. Submitted by Jo Daye on Fri, 18/03/2022 - 13:00. ... A standardised and consistent approach to specifying machine readable information requirements that forms the basis for

9 Feb 2022: If you are concerned about climate change and passionate about the power of data to tackle the challenges we face then join us to explore how information interoperability can help to tackle the biggest challenges facing the plannet today - the

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

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: Published today Designing an Accelerator for the Construction Sector (9 March) is a practical guide to supporting start-up firms and entrepreneurs within the built environment sector - to help them thrive, and work towards the goal of building a

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.

4 Feb 2022: Share your priorities and requirements, and hear from companies who have participated in pilot projects.

4 Oct 2022: Rob Bricheno, Senior Network Systems Specialist, University Information Services, University of Cambridge; Dr Rohit Verma, Research Associate, and Vadim Safronov, a postgraduate researcher, both based in the Systems Research Group, Department