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Publication: Final Report - Co-Evolving Built Environments and Mobile Autonomy for Future Transport and Mobility

10 July 2019

co-evolving.png Project background What would an autonomous vehicle’s dream city look like? Autonomous navigation is a hard problem that is compounded by the unpredictability and dynamics of urban environments. As we re-think and re-design our built environments, we have the opportunity to transform them so that autonomous...

Publication: Final Report - Future Cities in the making – overcoming barriers to information modelling in socially responsible cities

10 July 2019

future_cities_in_the_making.png Project background What questions are City Information Modelling (CIM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) best suited to answer? This project examines what digital information is commonly available in UK cities and what new information can be retrieved from the built environment...

Publication: Final Report - Information Resilience – exploring ways to leverage data and information to deliver a digital built Britain

9 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.37.10.png Project background Information Resilience (IR) can be defined as the process of reducing the vulnerability of information to threats during its lifespan. The aim of this project is to develop a holistic IR model that will systematically demonstrate how information in digital built...

DFTG Blog - Mark Enzer

5 July 2019

Following the release of tickets to the National Digital Twin Day , Mark Enzer, CTO of Mott MacDonald and Chair of CDBB’s Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), looks forward to a day celebrating our progress so far towards a National Digital Twin and enabling people at all stages of their digital twin journey to come...

July 2019 Newsletter

4 July 2019

Find out about the latest news from CDBB on events, our blogs, recent reports and more in the CDBB's June 2019 Newsletter [View Newsletter] July 2019 Newsletter Introduction: This month the CDBB team have been developing further the plans for CDBB Week, and we are delighted to announce that National Digital Twin Day will...

Guest Blog from Laura Sandys - chair of the Energy Data Taskforce

28 June 2019

Following the release of the Energy Data Taskforce report recommending a strategy for the digitalisation of the energy sector, Laura Sandys, Chair of the Taskforce, looks forward to change. Digitalisation is informing all sectors of our economy and the UK energy system has much to gain from transformation. The Energy Data...

Press Release: Building the home of the future: lucky students to see designs brought to life

28 June 2019

A group of talented youngsters will today see their dreams come true as the futuristic homes they designed are set to be brought to life. The 2019 Student Design Challenge, which is being delivered by education charity MOBIE and the recently launched Construction Innovation Hub, invited young people from across the UK to...

Professional Services in support of the Enablers Stream

25 June 2019

Background A significant amount of work has been conducted over the last year by the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), part of The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), in order to set the foundations and draft a plan (the Roadmap) for the creation of the Information Management Framework, which will be a key enabler...

Research Landscape: Scoping Review

25 June 2019

The June monthly paper, by Kirsten Lamb, outlines the digital built Britain research landscape by means of a scoping review and gap analysis. This has informed the Capability Framework and Research Landscape work being conducted by CDBB on identifying the research capabilities needed to create a digital built Britain...

Blog: Alexandra Bolton introduces CDBB week

21 June 2019

In this weeks blog Alexandra Bolton introduces some of the activities planned for the inaugural CDBB Week, including CDBB’s Digital Framework Task Group at our National Digital Twin day and CDBB's popular Summer Research Showcase . June has been another busy month at CDBB, we have been out and about at various events and...