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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
 

Publications

Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Open ML Training Data For Visual Tagging Of Construction-specific Objects (ConTag)

Publication: Final Report - Open ML Training Data For Visual Tagging Of Construction-specific Objects (ConTag)

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.59.13.png Project background ML technology has enabled a revolutionary leap in many digital economies generating growth in activity and business mainly for the ITC sector. Part of the growth is generated through sharing of IP, knowledge, tools and datasets. We want to adopt this approach for the...

Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Integrated Management of Margins through Evaluation, Design, Analysis, Tracking and Negotiation

Publication: Final Report - Integrated Management of Margins through Evaluation, Design, Analysis, Tracking and Negotiation

10 July 2019

immediate.png Project background Over-engineering of systems is an often-hidden source of inefficiency in systems, which can add significantly to their building and running costs, and reduce the sustainability of systems. One cause of over-engineering is a cumulative effect of different stakeholders adding margins to the...

Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Feasibility of an Operating System for Interspatial Networking in a Built Environment

Publication: Final Report - Feasibility of an Operating System for Interspatial Networking in a Built Environment

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.09.44.png Project background Osmose is a project aimed at building a new operating system for situated environments that can handle the demands of thousands of sensors and actuators that need to run in a coordinated and highly reliable fashion. Outomes Digital infrastructure in modern urban...

Read more at: Publication: Final Report - PolyChora Alpha: a new digital interface for interdisciplinary city design

Publication: Final Report - PolyChora Alpha: a new digital interface for interdisciplinary city design

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.16.41.png Project background The aim of this project was to develop a new digital interface to integrate the data and visualisation of the designs of land use, buildings, transport infrastructure and associated urban services at both the neighbourhood and city scale. The interface can also be...

Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Aerial Swarm Robotics for Active Inspection of Bridges

Publication: Final Report - Aerial Swarm Robotics for Active Inspection of Bridges

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.23.50.png Project background Bridge collapses are expensive and often tragic events that need to be avoided by detecting faults early. This project aims to create a coordinated aerial swarm system to inspect the cracks in bridge structures, improving the monitoring coverage and efficiency...

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

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...

Read more at: Research Landscape: Scoping Review

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...

Read more at: Making the Digitally Enabled Services and Supply Chain Work
Making the Digitally Enabled Services and Supply Chain Work

Making the Digitally Enabled Services and Supply Chain Work

4 June 2019

Urban Innovation Labs (2019). Making the Digitally Enabled Services and Supply Chain Work. (CDBB_REP_20)

Read more at: Integration and Optimisation of Services Embedded in the Built Environment
Integration and Optimisation of Services Embedded in the Built Environment

Integration and Optimisation of Services Embedded in the Built Environment

4 June 2019

Urban Innovation Labs,. (2019). Integration and Optimisation of Services Embedded in the Built Environment. (CDBB_REP_21)

Read more at: Digital tools in the creation and through-life management of built assets
Digital tools in the creation and through-life management of built assets

Digital tools in the creation and through-life management of built assets

4 June 2019

Cambridge Architectural Research,. (2018). Digital Tools in the Creation and Through-Life Management of Built Assets. (CDBB_REP_22)

 

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