skip to content

Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022

This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain
 
Read more at: Blog: Sparking digital transformation in local authorities - by Terry Stocks

Blog: Sparking digital transformation in local authorities - by Terry Stocks

12 November 2020

Terry Stocks, Chair of CDBB’s Local Authorities Working Group shares his thoughts on how we can help local government to realise the benefits of a digital approach to managing their estate and asset information. The local authority sector is large and diverse. There are 343 councils in England who collectively spent around...


Read more at: Press Release: Construction in 2040: charting a course towards a digital, sustainable future

Press Release: Construction in 2040: charting a course towards a digital, sustainable future

5 November 2020

A new publication explores the actions that will need to be taken by the construction sector over the next 20 years if we are to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), deliver on carbon reduction targets and save ecosystems from collapse. Four Futures, One Choice which has been developed by the Centre for...


Read more at: Book: Four Futures - One Choice

Book: Four Futures - One Choice

4 November 2020

screenshot_2020-12-11_at_11.11.09.png Four Futures, One Choice provokes us with a future lens enabling us to view, with clarity and detail, four scenarios of what Britain could look like in 2040, depending upon the decisions that are made now, in these unprecedented times of opportunity. It presents us with four compelling...


Read more at: The Forge: Quantifying the value of P-DfMA and digital delivery

The Forge: Quantifying the value of P-DfMA and digital delivery

4 November 2020

The Centre for Digital Built Britain, as part of the Construction Innovation Hub , is supporting a ground-breaking commercial development. Thayla Zomer, a research student embedded in the project team, reports on her work assessing the benefits to industry of applying Modern Methods of Construction and a digital delivery...


Read more at: Railway Digital Twins conference paper receives a Best Paper Award at the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC)

Railway Digital Twins conference paper receives a Best Paper Award at the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC)

2 November 2020

A conference paper titled “ Digital Twinning of Railway Overhead Line Equipment from Airborne LiDAR Data ” authored by PhD student Mahendrini Ariyachandra and Dr Ioannis Brilakis received the Best Paper Award (best out of 221 papers) presented at the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction...


Read more at: Tender: Global Digital Platform

Tender: Global Digital Platform

22 October 2020

This tender is for the development of a Global Digital Platform. The Global Platform is conceptualized as an online self-navigable and interactive knowledge product, repository and platform which will act as a central source of truth for all public sector institutions seeking guidance, tools and evidence related to the...


Read more at: Blog: Opening the black box: exploring practical enactment of the BIM mandate

Blog: Opening the black box: exploring practical enactment of the BIM mandate

19 October 2020

New research by Thayla Zomer , a PhD r esearcher at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) , University of Cambri dge , Professor Andy Neely, Director of CDBB and Dr A jith Parlikad , explores how organisational aspects and existing ways of working can affect the implementation of built environment policy and limit...


Read more at: Tender: Skills to implement the IMF Part 2

Tender: Skills to implement the IMF Part 2

13 October 2020

The Information Management Framework (IMF) aims to enable effective information management across the Built Environment. The document “The Pathway Towards an Information Management Framework” sets out the requirements for the technical core of an Information Management Framework that supports secure and resilient exchange...


Read more at: Blog: Procurement Strategies for Incentivising Collaborative Delivery to Optimise Whole-life Outcomes

Blog: Procurement Strategies for Incentivising Collaborative Delivery to Optimise Whole-life Outcomes

12 October 2020

Professor David Mosey, Professor Cam Middleton, Darya Bahram, Dr Roxana Vornicu, Dr Paolo Giana Despite the constraints imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been significant progress in the CDBB research programme examining how collaborative procurement models, integrated contracts and BIM can incentivise efficient...


Read more at: Head of CDBB’s National Digital Twin programme awarded OBE

Head of CDBB’s National Digital Twin programme awarded OBE

12 October 2020

Mark Enzer, Head of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) National Digital Twin programme and Chair of the Digital Framework Task Group has been awarded an OBE for services to national infrastructure in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced on 10 October. Mark Enzer is the Digital Director for the...