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Blog: Dr Anne Kemp OBE urges industry engagement and feedback

1 August 2019

With the release of the UK’s Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery, supporting BS EN ISO 19650 Parts 1 and 2, Dr Anne Kemp OBE urges industry engagement and feedback. This week the UK BIM Alliance , Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and British Standards Institute (BSI) is launching the first edition of the...

Publication: Final Report - The local governance of digital technology – Implications for the city-scale digital twin

31 July 2019

screenshot_2020-06-24_at_14.27.58.png Project background What part does city and regional governance play in how a city-level digital twin develops? It is necessary to understand the ways in which governance for digital twins is bound by context and the ways in which it is generalisable in order to successfully transfer...

Information management according to BS EN ISO 19650

31 July 2019

The UK BIM Alliance with BSI and CDBB is developing guidance to support individuals and organisations in the UK to understand the fundamental principles of building information modelling according to ISO 19650 Parts 1 and 2. The ISO 19650 series is being developed over time and these first two parts supersede BS 1192:2007...

Monthly Paper: On the Governance of City Digital Twins

28 July 2019

Our July Monthly Paper is a working paper by Dr Timea Nochta, Nicole Badstuber and Dr Noura Wahby looking at city digital twins. On the Governance of City Digital Twins – Insights from the Cambridge case study Dr Timea Nochta, Nicole Badstuber and Dr Noura Wahby Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Department...

Blog: Edonis Jesus reflects on the use of BIM in historic buildings

26 July 2019

The 2019 BIM4Heritage Annual Conference attracted speakers and delegates from a wide range of organisations interested in the role of BIM to preserve the historic built environment. Edonis Jesus, BIM Leader at Lendlease and founder of BIM4Heritage, reflects on why historic buildings need BIM ...

Blog: CDBB's Director of Applied Research Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE

19 July 2019

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) works closely with a range of leading organisations to drive change to deliver a smart digital built environment. Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and Director of Applied Research for CDBB, reflects on the power of...

DT Hub Blog: Infrastructure Digital Twins?

15 July 2019

The Digital Twin Hub is a collaborative learning community, facilitated via an online portal, that will support collaboration related to the development, management and integration of digital twins for the built environment, including economic and social infrastructure . Here we launch the first in the series of monthly...

Blog: Gerry Ruffles from MOBIE reflects on the recent Student Design Challenge

12 July 2019

Following the results of the Construction Innovation Hub (CIH) and Ministry of Building Innovation and Education (MOBIE) Student Design Challenge 2019, Gerry Ruffles, Head of Education for MOBIE, champions the talent and innovation of the young students tasked with designing homes for the future. ’Home is the most...

BIM Roundtable Discussion Series Roundtable 7: specialist BIM consultants

10 July 2019

At the seventh in our series of roundtable discussions run by the Centre for Digital Built Britain in association with Chartered Institute of Building, we brought together specialist BIM consultants to share their insights and consider the progress being made towards BIM as ‘business as usual’. CDBB will use these sessions...

Publication: Final Report - PolyChora Alpha: a new digital interface for interdisciplinary city design

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.16.41.png Project background The aim of this project was to develop a new digital interface to integrate the data and visualisation of the designs of land use, buildings, transport infrastructure and associated urban services at both the neighbourhood and city scale. The interface can also be...