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5 Aug 2022: Download the Design and Standards Brief here.. ... Download our step-by-step guidance on how to set up a pool bike scheme.

25 Nov 2022: Bookings are now closed The 2024 Cambridge Festival will featured two days of exciting and FREE talks, workshops and hands-on activities for school students (KS2 and KS3) in West Cambridge. Schools could book for one, two or all three of our main

9 Jun 2022: The Cambridge Festival welcomes event submissions for all those in and around Cambridge - not just those associated with the University and its Colleges! We have everything from lectures, walking tours, online talks, escape rooms, exhibitions, short

26 Jan 2022: Download our guide to reducing our top single-use items. This simple guide sets out tangible steps that can be taken to reduce the University's main sources of single-use ... waste. You can download the full guide in PDF format, or if you're interested

7 Feb 2022: Political crises, the past, present and future of eastern world orders, the outlook for feminism, new technologies and treatments for a range of diseases, and the state of our natural world top the bill at this year’s Festival, which returns with

10 Mar 2022: Click on the link to download the report.

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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.

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.

9 Nov 2022: you may still wish to have a Readme file that users can download together with your data files. ... OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive) to your data so that we can download the files.

22 Mar 2022: use Inside Careers from which you can also download a very useful free careers guide.

4 Feb 2022: Small companies in the construction sector are invited to discover how to introduce simple, low-cost digital solutions at an online workshop on Thursday 3 March. Join a virtual webinar at 1.30-3pm on Thursday 3 March to find out more about the

12 Sep 2022: At the core of the Shoestring ambition, each solution should have a matching specification, including a checklist of components for purchase, instructions for assembly, and instructions to download and integrate the

25 Aug 2022: How do I meet the English language requirement? Please see our guidance (PDF download).

4 Feb 2022: Read the project report (pdf download, opens in new window). Project findings include:.

7 Sep 2022: Therefore, all Institutions are required to download a copy of this spreadsheet, complete it and upload it via this Microsoft Form by Friday 30 September 2022.

23 Feb 2022: These questions and more are set to be debated at this year’s Cambridge Festival (31 March – 10 April), during a series of events that explore the impacts of our ever-increasing dependence on technology. The Cambridge Festival is run by the

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

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

21 Apr 2022: Download myTrip or you could download the Stagecoach app, if their service supports your travel requirements.

16 Feb 2022: From inequality to authoritarianism: politics events at the Cambridge Festival 2022 What has Covid taught us about social inequality in the UK? Can political innovation come from crisis? Did science win in the battle of Covid communications and how

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

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.

9 Feb 2022: If you use additional job titles and pay rates other than those on the list, you will need to download and complete the spreadsheet, submitting it via the MS Form. ... Download a copy of the spreadsheet and complete the fields. You should enter any job

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.

23 Feb 2022: The Festival, which runs from 31st March to 10th April, is the University of Cambridge’s leading public engagement event and tackles and offers solutions for some of our most pressing issues, from the multiple crises in politics, health and

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.

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.

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

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

28 Mar 2022: Download a digital copyis CDBB’s blueprint for the future, showcasing the vital role that connected digital twins play in improving social, economic, and environmental outcomes, to create a better quality

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

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

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

21 Apr 2022: The finance industry has long been at the forefront of using data and technology to make better decisions, to de-risk and improve return on investments, and to create better outcomes.

4 Nov 2022: Please see the University Collaboration Budget (UCB) website for further details and to download an application form.

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

31 Mar 2022: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) as a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub is pleased to announce the launch of a multi-party ‘Integrated Information Management Contract’ (‘IIMC’), developed by the King’s College London

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

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.

12 Sep 2022: Digitalisation can seem beyond the financial reach of many small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs). Barriers to engaging with digital tools and technologies include high entry and operating costs and complexity.

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: 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.

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.

22 Sep 2022: The UK construction and housing industries lag behind most other fields in taking advantage of new technologies. Government has repeatedly expressed its commitment to digital transformation in the construction sector.

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

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

22 Sep 2022: As of 2019, the UK Government has committed to a “presumption in favour” of off-site construction for procurement of all new buildings by all key government departments.

18 May 2022: A significant proportion of the work undertaken by CDBB has focussed on the macro level, working with national and international policymakers and businesses. However, most businesses that make up the construction sector are small and medium-sized

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,