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14 Aug 2020: As further easing of the COVID-19 lockdown measures are implemented across the UK, our sector continues to focus on building back better. In a time like this it’s easy to become distracted by the here and now and focus solely on what needs repair

6 Jan 2020: In the 2020 New Year Honours List Professor Andy Neely, FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the University, and former Head of IfM, received an OBE for services to Research and to University/Industry Collaboration.

25 May 2020: This network takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the state-of-the-art in use of modelling support for infrastructure planning decision making, both in industry and policy practice, and in the research community; needs of the

3 Mar 2020: Government Soft Landings (GSL) can play an important role in enabling a smooth transition from construction to operation. It also helps clients to assure the performance of an asset and inform future project performance setting.

31 Mar 2020: The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has launched the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub), a new online community to promote best practice in digital twins for infrastructure and as a testbed for the Information Management Framework for the built

4 Feb 2020: Ahead of the Construction Innovation Hub’s inaugural Digital Construction on a Shoestring workshop, Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and head of the Distributed Information &

19 Aug 2020: CDBB was committed to developing tools, guidance, case studies and insight papers to support the adoption of the UK BIM Framework, data-driven decision making and to enable public and private sector digital transformation that improves the social,

25 May 2020: This research network aims to take a user-centric approach to interacting with information, from search and retrieval to browsing and exploration, and to consider the following three dimensions: (1) the lifecycle of information, from its creation,

21 Dec 2020: You can download and read the full paper here.

19 May 2020: Our Challenge When planning a complex project like a high speed rail network or a public housing development, computer models can balance the differing needs of local communities, small business owners, the natural environment and other stakeholders,

25 May 2020: 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

20 Apr 2020: On April 23 2020 from 12.00-13.00 a joint webinar hosted by Geospatial Commission and Ordnance Survey will provide an overview of the recently announced Public Sector Geospatial Agreement. The presentation will cover: What's new - what does the PSGA

27 Aug 2020: lagroup885x433.png The Local Authorities working group (established in 2019) is made up of representatives from a number of local authorities, Home Nation Reps, the UK BIM Alliance and the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities.

17 Feb 2020: Digital twins offer great potential to improve performance, resource efficiency, monitoring and safety of complex infrastructure systems. Developing and using them also generates new questions about security, privacy, equity, and public and private

29 May 2020: generations. Download the report:. Subject:. 2024 University of Cambridge.

25 Feb 2020: UK Research & Innovation’s Transforming Construction Challenge partners are joining forces at Futurebuild 2020.

25 Nov 2020: Adam Matthews, Head of International, CDBB Building information modelling (BIM) is at the heart of the digitalization of the global construction sector – a trend which will have far reaching implications for the sector, for governments and society.

3 Jul 2020: Cambridge researchers are part of a collaborative project tasked with developing models, infrastructure and machine learning algorithms for capturing mobility, transportation and traffic activity in London, as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown eases.

3 Jul 2020: Digital Twins - Capturing the complexity of cities? Dan Clarke, Cambridge City Council Cities are complex places made up of lots of interconnected systems. Currently, policies, strategies and the digital tools that help to define them, struggle to

3 Jul 2020: Digital Twins Why Now? David McKee, Slingshot Simulations As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at how the development of a nation of

3 Jul 2020: Demographic Twins for ‘What if?’ Scenario Planning Mark Birkin, Alan Turing Institute As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at

3 Jul 2020: The Integrated Enterprise Kevin Reeves, Costain As digital transformation accelerates across the built environment, Costain is collaborating across the value chain to move towards the Integrated Enterprise, connecting Digital Twins to ask complex

2 Mar 2020: Standards create an avenue of consistency and opportunity for skills to be recognised and developed.

24 May 2020: 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).

3 Jul 2020: A National Underground Asset Register: Delivering Value with Flexibility Neil Brammal, Geospatial Commission As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce

7 Apr 2020: Since the release of BS EN ISO 19650 (Parts 1 and 2) there has been a noticeable industry shift towards a standardised approach to information briefing, delivery and management using building information modelling (BIM).

10 Aug 2020: CDBB is looking for an organisation to event-manage and facilitate two series of online workshops and dissemination of outputs to the built environment sector. The objective of the project is to gain broad agreement on the digital capabilities

24 May 2020: This project addresses the question of how European cities are adapting to BIM, and what awareness there is of BIM in future city thinking and strategies, particularly around Smart Cities. It also looks at what tools and policies are being used to

24 Aug 2020: by Dan Rossiter, BSI (This article and image were originally published in BSI's Standards Outlook - Issue five and the BSI Website.) The built environment is massively important to the UK economy and the wider public good, encompassing as it does

2 Jun 2020: Webinar on National Digital Twin programme's open consultation on 'The Pathway Towards an Information Management Framework' About this Event Please join us to discuss the recently published IMF Pathway.

3 Jul 2020: Overcoming Commercial Barriers to the Scaled Adoption of Digital Twins Tom Henderson, TechUK As a digital representation of assets and operations help owners and operators make their workforce safer, improve productivity and reduce costs, we look at

11 Jun 2020: The full summary document is available to download and review here.

3 Jul 2020: Why a National Digital Twin?

20 Nov 2020: David Philp, digital impact director for the Construction Innovation Hub, highlights the benefits the Government Soft Landings (GSL) approach brings to improving performance and outcomes of our built assets to ensure they improve whole-life value to

29 Apr 2020: students can download and focus on just the slides if they find it distracting to have two elements to watch.

7 Jul 2020: bcg_logo_cmyk_black.jpg The Buildings Client Group is a members group consisting of leaders, directors and decision makers from across the property sector. Members focus on creating step-change within their own organisations, and ultimately across

9 Jan 2020: CDBB, in partnership with the Construction Innovation Hub, Department for International Trade and Foreign Commonwealth Office are holding a Global BIM Summit in London to bring together the international community developing and delivering national

27 Nov 2020: Calling built environment graduates and graduate managers! Please submit your expression of interest* for a place at one of our workshops.

25 May 2020: The entire lifecycle of the built environment is governed by a variety of regulations, requirements and standards. The checking of compliance against these is a complex task, which is currently performed manually, thus becoming resource intensive.

17 Nov 2020: The two survey papers; ‘A survey of Top-Level Ontologies’ and ‘A Survey of Industry Data Models and Reference Data Libraries’, form the foundation for the work described in ‘The Pathway towards and Information Management Framework’ (IMF).

24 May 2020: This research network aims to: establish the existing landscape; determine the current position and future vision in relation to other industry bodies that are fundamental in shaping the future of built environment education and training; establish

19 Feb 2020: CDBB’s Digital Twin Hub is establishing and bringing together stakeholders in the digital twin space to create a collaborative web-enabled community to drive learning and accelerate progression through shared experience. Samuel Chorlton, DT Hub

7 Oct 2020: There is a difference between a nation of digital twins and a National Digital Twin Isolated digital twins exist as a replica of an asset with a symbiotic relationship to the real thing.

5 Feb 2020: This document is available to download from the UK BIM Framework website.

30 Jun 2020: You can either attach your photo(s) to the email or, if it/they are very large files, upload to  and email from there or copy and paste a download link

2 Dec 2020: Samuel Chorlton, Chair of the Digital Twin Hub Standards make everyday life work. They may decide the size or shape of a product or system. They can specify terms so that there are no misunderstandings. They are crucial for instilling confidence and

25 May 2020: How can buildings’ energy use and embodied energy both be optimized at the design stage? This project aims to enable the generation of real-time data from operational energy use and from energy embedded in building components.

27 Mar 2020: Increasing numbers of people are currently working from home. Whether you are following Government advice on self-isolating or are one of the growing number of people working remotely on a regular basis, telecommuting is shaping the world we live in.

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.

15 Jan 2020: Ahead of his Turing Talk touring lecture series, Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, Academic Director of CDBB, and Director of the