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Welcome to the news section of the CDBB website. Here you will find the latest updates, reports, blogs and news from the centre. If you would like to sign up to receive the CDBB newsletter please register here.

Blog: Digitalisation of Construction for a Young Audience - come to Cambridge Science Festival!

18 March 2019

Ahead of CDBB’s inaugural event at the Cambridge Science Festival, and an appearance on BBC Click, Thayla Zomer, a researcher at CDBB, explains the digitalisation of construction to a young audience.

March 2019 Newsletter

11 March 2019

Find out about the latest news from CDBB on events, our blogs, recent reports and more in the CDBB's March 2019 Newsletter

Guest Blog from Vicki Holmes

8 March 2019

Digital transformation brings opportunity as well as challenge, says Vicki Holmes, Digital Manager at Multiplex and Women in BIM core team member. In this guest blog Vicki makes the case for diversifying to digitalise.

BIM Roundtable Discussion Series - Roundtable 5 - SMEs

7 March 2019

The fifth of our series of nine BIM roundtable events was held on Tuesday 5th March and saw a group of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the construction sector discuss the advantages of being small when delivering BIM, along with some of the challenges.

Mott MacDonald appointed as delivery partner for the UK’s Global Infrastructure Programme

5 March 2019

Mott MacDonald has been appointed as Delivery Partner for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Building Information Modelling (BIM) Pathfinder Programme, as part of the Cross-government Prosperity Funded Global Infrastructure Programme.

Blog from Alexandra Bolton

1 March 2019

In her monthly round-up of activities at the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Alexandra Bolton, Deputy Director at CDBB, welcomes the latest report from the National Infrastructure Commission and looks forward to talking digital transformation at FutureBuild.

Blog: Find out about the future of construction at this year's Cambridge Science Festival

22 February 2019

Dr Kate Parsley, Head of Engagement (maternity cover), reports on CDBB's preparations for Cambridge Science Festival - at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge at 1.30-4.30 on Saturday 23 March 2019.

NIC Annual Monitoring Report 2019

22 February 2019

The Centre for Digital Built Britain and the Digital Framework Task Group commended in the National Infrastructure Commission Annual Monitoring Report 2019

International Blog - Collaboration in Uruguay

15 February 2019

The CDBB International programme engages with countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, North America and Africa. Adam Matthews, head of the International team, reports on the latest collaboration in Uruguay.

Publication: Case Study: Toward a Digitally Enabled Estate: Project Capella