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7 Feb 2018: Strategic Planning Workshop

14 Feb 2018: This Workshop will bring together a community interested in the research to be done around enhancing the performance of built assets and the services that depend upon them by better use of data. It will include a series of workshops in order to

21 Mar 2018: Facts & Figures archive / downloads. For further information please refer to the links below:.

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

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

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 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

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

27 Jul 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) invites proposals from eligible early career researchers for research projects aligned with the CDBB mission to develop and demonstrate policy and practical insights that will enable the exploitation of

5 Jul 2018: The Vision Network intends to outline a complete and useful landscape of state-of-the-art research and technologies in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

10 Oct 2018: rd. November 2017. If you would like to advertise the survey in your department please click on the image below to download our poster.

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 Network FOuNTAIN’s vision is for all stakeholders in Digital Built Britain (DBB) to be able to meet their information needs. With the establishment of concepts such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Common Data Environments (CDE),

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: The aim of the study was to explore the current use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the UK house building industry and the benefits BIM offers, and to consider the opportunities and barriers to its wider uptake. The study shows that the

30 Jan 2018: This project investigated the principles of universal design applied to the built environment and specifically with reference to people with impairment. The validity of using VR as a test method was assessed by reviewing the neuroscientific

5 Jul 2018: The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) is a research centre within the University of Cambridge’s Department of Land Economy. With over 25 years’ experience of research in policy evaluation and analysis, as well as

7 Feb 2018: This project builds on a tool developed by two Cambridge PhD students (cited below), that allows for the generation of high resolution geographical data heat maps. One can use these heat maps to solve optimisation problems relevant to the common

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

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

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

8 Feb 2018: Ancillary sensing in the context of BIM concerns drawing new sources of useful information into common data environments used in the design, creation and management of the built environment physical assets. The field is ripe for disruption. The goal

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

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

9 Feb 2018: This project focuses on the crowdsourcing data harvesting and data- mining of the multi-dimensional mechanisms of urban segregation combining the geo-coding of information with the rich attributes of this type of data. This project will conduct

1 Dec 2018: CDBB and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) teamed up for the second event in a programme of high-level ‘roundtable’ discussions, which aim to further accelerate adoption of the Government’s digital strategy for the built environment,

30 Jan 2018: This project improved the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment. This mini project reduced the cost of creating and deploying ML systems by creating versatile and extendable API’s, data

25 Jul 2018: Call for Research Projects The Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) invites proposals from eligible research teams for research projects aligned with the CDBB mission to develop and demonstrate policy and practical insights that will

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

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

17 Dec 2018: CDBB's Year One Report: Towards a digital built Britain, has now been released.

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

8 Feb 2018: The aim of this project is to develop a new digital interface to integrate the data and visualisation of the designs of land use, buildings, transport infrastructure and associated urban services at both the neighbourhood and city scale. The

31 Oct 2018: Refill is a national campaign, you can download their app to find refill locations in most UK cities.

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

30 Jan 2018: This project aims to fully document and make available the automated back analysis tool developed by Ms Jin to support commercial implementation, as well as investigate barriers to the adoption of data-driven adaptive design in practice through a

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

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

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).

2 Nov 2018: Housing Digital Built Britain Network

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

2 Nov 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain supported a series of events at this year’s Digital Construction Week [DCW], from keynotes to panel sessions, giving insights into the work of the centre and exploring the opportunities associated with the

2 Nov 2018: Network FOuNTAIN: Network For ONTologies And Information maNagement in Digital Built Britain

11 Oct 2018: The trade opportunities arising from the international adoption of BIM standards being pioneered in the UK was the focus of a Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for International Trade (DIT) event in

28 Sep 2018: Workshop for experts from industry, academia and standards bodies to help provide insight and challenge through a structured debate and workshop activities around the capabilities of the existing AR and VR technologies used in the built environment.

2 Nov 2018: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) Security-Mindedness for Smart Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities event, in association with the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at the University of Cambridge, brought

21 Feb 2018: Arthur Lankester, Smart Cities Expedition, explains his upcoming one-man-on-a-motorcycle expedition to Smart Cities in Europe and beyond.

20 Jul 2018: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury announces launch of the Centre for Digital Built Britain' Digital Framework Task Group during visit to the University of Cambridge

4 Apr 2018: In this month's team blog we are pleased to introduce Kirsten Lamb, who is working with the CDBB as our information specialist. Find out what her role involves and how you can benefit from Kirsten's guide to staying up to date.