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11 Aug 2020: The Smart Infrastructure Index is enabling members of the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub) to measure their digital maturity and benchmark their progress against their peers.

22 Dec 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), as part of our work within the Construction Innovation Hub, is working to inform and inspire children and young people about careers in design, construction and asset management and encourage them to gain

24 Sep 2020: The industry has a prime opportunity to set a new course and increase the pace towards digitalisation.

25 May 2020: This project aimed to fully document and make available the automated back analysis tool developed to support commercial implementation, as well as investigate barriers to the adoption of data-driven adaptive design in practice through a targeted

3 Jul 2020: Roundtable Event The DT Hub Digital Twin Talks Series 2 will culminate with a live Rountable event with the speakers from the series, where participants will have a chance to input and discuss with the presenter panel how current thinking is being

27 Apr 2020: screenshot_2020-08-18_at_15.48.55.png Abstract When looking at in-building or urban settings, information about the number of people present and the way they move through the space is useful for helping designers to understand what they have

30 Apr 2020: The fourth edition of Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery has been published today by the UK BIM Framework.

30 Apr 2020: Dr Ioannis Brilakis, leader of the University of Cambridge Department for Engineering’s Construction IT group, and CDBB academic has been awarded grant funding, along with visiting Professor Rafael Sacks, to enhance building progress monitoring

15 Dec 2020: A paper by Dr Nicola Moretti, Dr Xiang Xie, Dr Jorge Merino, Justas Brazauskas and Dr Ajith Parlikad - An openBIM Approach to IoT Integration with Incomplete As-Built Data has been published in a special issue of MDPI’s Applied Sciences Journal

24 May 2020: Using the principles of universal design, this project aims to create a VR environment that reduces usability issues such as balance in order to test virtual built environment designs with users who have a balance or sensory impairment.

25 May 2020: This project developed a case study of The Edge in Amsterdam, billed as the world’s smartest building, for CDBB.

1 Sep 2020: Download our guide to virtual assessment centres and listen to our YouTube playlist.

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4 Nov 2020: Click here to download a guide to viewing these reports in UTBS. ... or you can follow the interactive How-To guide on how to download this report.

23 Apr 2020: Ron Lang, Impact Director for Value at the Construction Innovation Hub, introduces the Hub's Value Theme. As we start a new financial year, I find myself reflecting on just how far we’ve come at the Construction Innovation Hub.

12 Nov 2020: Terry Stocks, Chair of CDBB’s Local Authorities Working Group shares his thoughts on how we can help local government to realise the benefits of a digital approach to managing their estate and asset information. The local authority sector is large

16 Jul 2020: To view immediately, click Download. You can utilise breakout groups in Google Meet by creating parallel hangouts.

31 Mar 2020: Introduction and context of this report pwc_2020_part_1_image.png In 2016 the UK Government mandated the use of Building Information Modelling (‘BIM’) Level 2 on all centrally procured public construction projects.

24 May 2020: The Housing Digital Built Britain Network focused its attention on residential housing. It brought together academics, practitioners, policy makers and government to facilitate dialogue and determine the key areas of inquiry.

17 Jul 2020: Students or supervisors may have access to a scanner. However, students and supervisors can download apps such as Microsoft Lens, to tidy up photos taken using a smartphone camera and to

24 May 2020: This project develops probabilistic master-planning tools to support effective implementation of energy policies in UK cities. It integrates high-dimensional data that spans environmental features, physical form & land-use, socio-demographics, and

15 May 2020: Following the success of the official launch of CDBB’s Digital Twin Hub, Samuel Chorlton, Chair of the DT Hub, considers the possible competencies, skills and cultural changes integral to the successful adoption of digital twins.

28 Jan 2020: Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects cdbb_wp_040_thayla_zomer_imagex300.jpg Our January Monthly paper is a working paper by Thalya Zomer, Andy Neely, Ajith Parlikad and Veronica Martinez.

11 Sep 2020: Construction must adopt digital tools to prepare the way for information and automation technologies that deliver value.

2 Sep 2020: Built Environment Digital Twinning has been published and is available for download.

1 Jun 2020: BSI, the Centre for Digital Built Britain, the UK BIM Alliance and the Construction Industry Council today release the Information Protocol to support BS EN ISO 19650-2 the delivery phase.

10 Sep 2020: ARCOM Kwadwo paper.png The paper 'Offsite manufacturing and construction industry transformation: a multi-level socio-technical transitions perspective' has been published in the Proceedings of the 36th Annual ARCOM Conference.

25 Nov 2020: by photocopiers, kettles, lifts and in toilets. Download useful resources and posters from our website..

25 May 2020: This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin.

26 Mar 2020: A new Construction Innovation Hub research programme explores procurement strategies to incentivise collaborative delivery and optimise whole-life outcomes.

2 Oct 2020: This purpose of this tender is to explore and strengthen the connective tissue between the UK Building Information Modelling Framework (BIMF) and the Information Management Framework (IMF).

25 May 2020: This project improved the foundations for applying tried-and-tested machine learning (ML) approaches to the built environment.

14 Feb 2020: Sustainability is a key driver to digital transformation in the built environment. Alexandra Bolton, Executive Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), considers the challenge, the opportunity and the potential prize. Addressing the

17 Nov 2020: The Construction Innovation Hub’s Platform Design Programme, working in partnership with both government and industry, is developing a platform construction system consisting of a standardised kit of parts that we believe will be able to deliver

5 Mar 2020: Ahead of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival and following the success of the Construction Innovation Hub’s support of Futurebuild 2020, Alexandra Bolton, Executive Director at the Centre for Digital Built Britain, considers skills and

27 Jan 2020: Departments can download, save a local copy and and customise the word version of the form below.

26 Aug 2020: Mark Enzer, Head of the National Digital Twin Programme, CDBB, will be presenting at this years Transforming Construction Network + Embracing a Movement for Change Conference.

7 Dec 2020: To identify, assess, and promote conformity to standards supporting interoperability, including identifying current gaps and overlaps, and make recommendations to progress on any development required at UK, CEN or ISO level.

23 Jun 2020: Following severe damages caused by climate cycle El Nino in Peru in 2017, yesterday the Department for International Trade (DIT) signed a Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement with the Government of Peru to support the crucial reconstruction of

28 Aug 2020: Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton, was instrumental in the development of the World Wide Web.

18 Nov 2020: Cambridge academics talk about their experiences teaching online, and a student representative discusses their learning experience

25 Jun 2020: Download 'The pathway towards an Information Management Framework - A ‘Commons’ for Digital Built Britain':. ... Download 'The Approach to Delivering a National Digital Twin for the United Kingdom - Summary report:.

11 Mar 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain works in partnership with the Infrastructure Client Group's Digital Transformation Task Group (DTTG) on the National Digital Twin Programme and its Digital Twin Hub.

29 Jul 2020: The UK BIM Framework has released a free resource to support the development of training content for building information modelling (BIM) aligned with current standards. The UK BIM Framework Learning Outcomes and other helpful resources are

25 May 2020: In this project we define ‘built form’ as the assemblage of individual buildings and structures in the built environment and we make use of a wide range of new insights and data to model the evolution of the built form in Britain.

24 May 2020: 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.

20 Jul 2020: Files can be shared from the VLE or made available to download from online storage.

17 Dec 2020: Electric bikes will also be available from 12 January. Users can download the Voi app to unlock and pay for electric scooters, the fee to unlock is £1, and users are

25 May 2020: Radar imagery taken by satellites (InSAR) can be used to monitor millimetre-scale movements of built environment assets over time.

3 Jun 2020: Osmose is a project aimed at building a new operating system for situated environments that can handle the demands of thousands of sensors and actuators that need to run in a coordinated and highly reliable fashion.