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17 May 2024: This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain

5 Oct 2022: Off-site manufacturing (OSM) was introduced decades ago to improve productivity, consistency and quality. In production, OSM has seen success in the automotive and food and beverage sectors. In construction, OSM take-up has been far more limited.

5 Oct 2022: Off-site manufacturing delivers major benefits to the automotive, food and beverage industries, but construction has been slower to explore its potential, especially in the UK.

5 Oct 2022: Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring to investigate large earth movements and monitor city-scale deformation is well established. The use of InSAR to monitor single infrastructure assets has been less well understood.

4 Oct 2022: Development at the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge campus offered an opportunity to demonstrate and address challenges associated with the production of a National Digital Twin (NDT).

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.

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

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.

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

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