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Tender: Professional Services to develop a State of the Nation Vision, Roadmap and Report for the digital built Britain programme

12 January 2021

The vision for the Digital Built Britain Programme is to make better use of built assets, and provide better social outcomes to the challenges of urbanisation and an increasing population, improve the UK’s productivity and support growth. In 2017 the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge was...

New Year Honour for Matthew West OBE

8 January 2021

matthew_west.jpg There is enough bad news at the moment so it makes a pleasant change to be able to share some good news.We are pleased to announce that Matthew West, Technical Lead for the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for Services to information management...

Working together to raise the profile of digital careers in construction

22 December 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 the knowledge and skills for the industry of the future. The Construction...

Blog: Construction with Digital Twin Information Systems

21 December 2020

In order to realise the potential of digital twin information management within construction and learn how to apply it correctly, we must recognise there is a need for a holistic approach to construction management. Professor Rafael Sacks was until September 2020 a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Digital Built Britain...

Blog: An openBIM Approach to IoT Integration with Incomplete As-Built Data

15 December 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 focused on Cognitive Buildings. Lead author Dr Nicola Moretti provides a...

Tender: Professional Services to develop an interactive toolkit for organisations to develop the business case for a digital twin

15 December 2020

An interactive web-enabled toolkit which provides the requisite functionality for clients to dynamically generate their own personalised business case for investing in a digital twin. The DT Hub launched on 31 March 2020 to enable digital twin developers to share learnings and guidance as part of the National Digital Twin...

Blog: Four Futures, One Choice

11 December 2020

While many worried that automation would lead to unprecedented levels of unemployment, the b uilt e nvironment in 2040 is powered both by a growing skilled workforce and supported by automation. More people than ever are now in employment, a change that happened rapidly in response to the Green New Deal and other post-...

Publication: Four Futures One Choice

11 December 2020

fourfutures_onechoice_2020._png.png Four Futures, One Choice uses a futures thinking methodology to explore four scenarios for the digital built environment in the year 2040, hinging on the age demographics in the UK and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It demonstrates that a complex web of factors...

Press Release: Global BIM Summit

8 December 2020

CDBB Convenes global BIM Summit to target savings of $250bn through the digitalization of construction The UK's Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has announced today that the inaugural Global BIM Summit will take place, online, on 17 March 2021 . The global summit, which is expected to attract attendees from more...

DT Hub Blog: Progress on National Digital Twin Standards

2 December 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 consistency for both providers and users. This is why we have made the...