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Publication: Final Report - Exploiting traffic data to improve asset management and citizen quality of life

10 August 2018

screenshot_2020-06-30_at_22.09.10.png Project background This project builds on a tool developed by two Cambridge PhD students that allows for the generation of high-resolution geographical data heat maps. These heat maps can help to solve optimisation problems relevant to citizens’ everyday lives. Specifically, we...

Watch the presentations from CDBB's Summer Showcase - now online!

9 August 2018

If you missed our Summer Showcase, or would just like to watch the fast-paced presentations once again, then you can now watch the presentations here, along with the summary video of the day.

Asset Information Management - Common Data Environment

9 August 2018

UK Government BIM Working Group CDE Sub Group

Blog from Amelia Burnett on the Engagement Programme

8 August 2018

The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) engagement programme works across research, industry and policy to champion digital transformation. Amelia Burnett, Head of Engagement for CDBB, heralds the change.

Guest Blog from Professor Gillian Rose who provides a social geography perspective

8 August 2018

The CDBB programme is actively multi-disciplinary to engage with ideas and perspectives beyond digital technology and construction. Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, and a member of the CDBB Expert Research Panel, considers the digital built environment through the lens of social geography.

CDBB August 2018 Newsletter

3 August 2018

New funding opportunities, the launch of the DFTG and more in CDBB's August newsletter.

CDBB Summer Showcase event presents mini-projects and funded Research Networks and announces three new opportunities for research funding

2 August 2018

Fast-paced presentations, networking and the launch of three new research opportunities shaped the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Summer Showcase event which attracted a full-house of industry professionals, academics from institutions across the UK, policy officials and members of the public.

Blog: International Update - UK Government’s Prosperity Funded Global Infrastructure Programme

2 August 2018

Adam Matthews, lead of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s International Programme, discusses the benefits of the UK Government’s Prosperity funded Global Infrastructure Programme for partner countries and the UK.

CDBB Funding Calls Now Open

27 July 2018

The Centre for Digital Built Britain is pleased to announce three new funding opportunities.

Blog: Alexandra Bolton and data-informed opportunities

24 July 2018

Following the Government’s response to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) report Data for the Public Good that tasks CDBB with forming the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), Alexandra Bolton, Deputy Director of the Centre, looks forward to data-informed opportunities ahead.