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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.

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: 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.

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 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.

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

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

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: 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.

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.

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

31 Mar 2022: Executive Summary Our world is changing: the way local authorities provide products and services, as well as people’s expectations of how they are delivered, are changing. Finances and resources are, and will be, increasingly stretched.

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

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

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

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).

28 Apr 2022: For more information on funding acknowledgement, please see UKRI’s guidelines and download the logos.

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