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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
 
Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Crowdsourcing Data in Mining Spatial Urban Activities

Publication: Final Report - Crowdsourcing Data in Mining Spatial Urban Activities

4 June 2018

crowdsourcing.png Project background This project aims to understand how check-in data from social media is distributed around Cambridge and what kinds of spatial segmentation can be identified. It validated the social media data on urban segregation using observation and questionnaires. We conducted pilots at Cambridge in...


Read more at: Supporting BIM in the UK

Supporting BIM in the UK

What is BIM? Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the “use of a shared digital representation of a built asset to facilitate design, construction and operation processes to form a reliable basis for decisions” (BS EN ISO 19650-1:2018). BIM facilitates early supply chain and operational team...


Read more at: The UK BIM Programme

The UK BIM Programme

CDBB’s role in the UK BIM Programme CDBB is one of the organisations tasked by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with managing the UK BIM Programme. This involves knowledge sharing among industry stakeholders, academics and policy makers to adopt and implement...