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Welcome to the news section of the CDBB website. Here you will find the latest updates, reports, blogs and news from the centre. If you would like to sign up to received the CDBB newsletter please register here.

Interviews with UK infrastructure executives reveals definitions, current practices, challenges and strategies of digital twins in infrastructure

8 October 2021

Published in the International Journal of Construction Management and titled, ‘Digital twins in infrastructure: definitions, current practices, challenges and strategies’ a new paper features interviews with top UK infrastructure executives to provide a valuable overview of current digital twin practices in the sector by...

New Energy and Carbon Reporting Framework

28 September 2021

Assessing the performance of a building or other asset during the procurement, design and construction phase remains a significant challenge for the industry and its operational energy use and emissions can come as a shock. New guidance published today from the Construction Innovation Hub (the Hub) responds to this...

New Knowledge Base Navigator Tool provides visual map of our research

28 September 2021

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), enabled by the Construction Innovation Hub, has developed a tool to help navigate the broad, diverse knowledge base it has created over the last three and a half years. The Knowledge Base Navigator allows people from industry, academia and the general public to browse and filter...

Press Release: CDBB Director elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

21 September 2021

Mark Enzer OBE, FREng, Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), Head of the National Digital Twin Programme, Digital Director and board member for the Construction Innovation Hub and Chief Technical Officer of Mott MacDonald has today been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in...

Digital transformation key to government’s call to build back better

14 September 2021

Embedding digital innovation in the construction and built environment sectors will boost productivity and deliver better whole-life value for assets, according to a new report. Today, the Construction Innovation Hub publishes a new resource to drive greater adoption of information management and digital capabilities. The...

CDBB Autumn News

8 September 2021

screenshot_2021-09-08_at_10.47.25.png Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. We are pleased to bring you an update of the activities from across CDBB, the National Digital Twin Programme, our Construction Innovation Hub work, our research teams, and the International Programme. It is always great to see such far reaching impact...

National Digital Twin programme – building momentum

6 September 2021

Since its creation in 2018, the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) has had three objectives: Enable a National Digital Twin – an ecosystem of connected digital twins to foster better outcomes from our built environment Deliver an Information Management Framework – ensure secure resilient data sharing and effective...

Blog: Supporting change in public sector organisations

3 September 2021

Mike Turpin, Technical Adviser for the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) explains how the recently released enhanced suite of online training will help to support the global implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM). Supported by the Construction Innovation Hub and the Foreign, Commonwealth and...

Training Suite Launched Supporting Global Implementation of BIM

18 August 2021

An enhanced suite of training has been launched to support the global implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) . The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB’s) international programme works to establish and create opportunities for an open, digitalised and innovative global construction market and boost the...

Global BIM Network launches Call for Knowledge

12 August 2021

Building a global evidence base to support government investment in built environment innovation that delivers benefits for people and places Following its launch, the Global BIM Network is now initiating a Call for Knowledge to all public sector organisations across the globe to build upon its Information Collection , an...