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This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain
 
Read more at: Third Edition of Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery

Third Edition of Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery

5 February 2020

Published today by the UK BIM Framework The UK BIM Framework today releases the third edition of Guidance Part 2: process for Project Delivery to support practitioners in embedding and implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery (Third Edition) This document is...


Read more at: Blog: Digital Construction on a Shoestring - Duncan McFarlane

Blog: Digital Construction on a Shoestring - Duncan McFarlane

4 February 2020

Ahead of the Construction Innovation Hub’s inaugural Digital Construction on a Shoestring workshop, Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and head of the Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory at the Institute for Manufacturing considers the benefits...


Read more at: Memorandum of Understanding signed between the UK and Peru to solidify collaboration related based on UK BIM

Memorandum of Understanding signed between the UK and Peru to solidify collaboration related based on UK BIM

31 January 2020

On 29 January 2019 The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) of Peru signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the United Kingdom to the improvement and development of Infrastructure investments in the country. The MOU, signed by the MEF and the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (...


Read more at: Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects

Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects

28 January 2020

Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects cdbb_wp_040_thayla_zomer_imagex300.jpg Our January Monthly paper is a working paper by Thalya Zomer, Andy Neely, Ajith Parlikad and Veronica Martinez. The paper investigates the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in construction...


Read more at: Publication: Moving from building information models to digital twins for operation and maintenance

Publication: Moving from building information models to digital twins for operation and maintenance

28 January 2020

screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.01.11.png Research background Abstract: With the rising adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for asset management within the architecture, engineering and construction sectors, BIM-enabled asset management during the operation and maintenance phase has been increasingly attracting...


Read more at: Blog: Professor Mark Girolami on the history of digital twins

Blog: Professor Mark Girolami on the history of digital twins

15 January 2020

Ahead of his Turing Talk touring lecture series, Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, Academic Director of CDBB, and Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Programme on Data Centric Engineering at The Alan...


Read more at: Tender: Provision of services for the organisation of the Global BIM Summit

Tender: Provision of services for the organisation of the Global BIM Summit

9 January 2020

CDBB, in partnership with the Construction Innovation Hub, Department for International Trade and Foreign Commonwealth Office are holding a Global BIM Summit in London to bring together the international community developing and delivering national digital transformation programmes in construction that improve...


Read more at: New Year Honour for Professor Andy Neely OBE

New Year Honour for Professor Andy Neely OBE

6 January 2020

In the 2020 New Year Honours List Professor Andy Neely, FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the University, and former Head of IfM, received an OBE for services to Research and to University/Industry Collaboration. Professor Neely, who is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Director of the...


Read more at: Principle-based digital twins: a scoping review

Principle-based digital twins: a scoping review

19 December 2019

GeminiPrinciplesimage.jpg To understand how transformative the Gemini Principles are to the development of digital twins, we looked at academic literature for any examples where digital twin implementations were based on similar precepts. The result is a light-touch scoping review on principle-based digital twins, now...


Read more at: New Video explains the National Digital Twin and the Gemini Principles

New Video explains the National Digital Twin and the Gemini Principles

18 December 2019

Launched by HM Treasury in July 2018, the CDBB’s National Digital Twin Programme was set up to deliver key recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission 2017 “ Data for the Public Good Report ”: to steer the successful development and adoption of the Information Management Framework for the built environment...