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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: Our Stories

Our Stories

On 30th September 2022, the Centre for Digital Built Britain completes its mission to advance the digital transformation of the built environment. We have been developing materials to celebrate the foundational work that has been done over the last five years, highlighting our learnings, and...


Read more at: Facilitating the digitisation of off-site manufacturing

Facilitating the digitisation of off-site manufacturing

Off-site manufacturing delivers major benefits to the automotive, food and beverage industries, but construction has been slower to explore its potential, especially in the UK. Led by Dr Mohamed Zaki, the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance, CDBB researchers sought to study the...


Read more at: Research Profile - Facilitating the digitisation of off-site manufacturing

Research Profile - Facilitating the digitisation of off-site manufacturing

5 October 2022

Off-site manufacturing (OSM) was introduced decades ago to improve productivity, consistency and quality. In production, OSM has seen success in the automotive and food and beverage sectors. In construction, OSM take-up has been far more limited. OSM includes everything in the manufacturing process, from planning to design...


Read more at: Research Profile - Application of satellite technology in infrastructure monitoring
Corner reflectors in the workshop, Krisztina for scale

Research Profile - Application of satellite technology in infrastructure monitoring

5 October 2022

Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring to investigate large earth movements and monitor city-scale deformation is well established. The use of InSAR to monitor single infrastructure assets has been less well understood. Yet improvements in the achievable resolution mean the range of possible...


Read more at: West Cambridge Digital Twin Research Facility

West Cambridge Digital Twin Research Facility

From 2018 to March 2022, the Centre for Digital Built Britain led the National Digital Twin Programme on behalf of the UK Government. Securely sharing infrastructure information through a digital ecosystem can support better outcomes for all, as illustrated in the poignant short film Tomorrow Today...


Read more at: Research Profile - West Cambridge Digital Twin Facility

Research Profile - West Cambridge Digital Twin Facility

4 October 2022

Development at the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge campus offered an opportunity to demonstrate and address challenges associated with the production of a National Digital Twin (NDT). An ecosystem of connected digital twins, the NDT exists to share infrastructure and built environment data securely and so support...


Read more at: Research Profile - Smart Hospital of the Future: Digital technologies, service innovation, and hospital design

Research Profile - Smart Hospital of the Future: Digital technologies, service innovation, and hospital design

4 October 2022

The century-old Moorfields Eye Hospital is relocating from its current home in London’s Old Street to a two-acre site at St Pancras Hospital, in the King’s Cross area. The move brings opportunity to use digital technologies (AI, analytics, digital twins) to innovate service provision to NHS patients and redesign hospitals...


Read more at: Precision Engineered Timber - Digital design and delivery of healthier schools

Precision Engineered Timber - Digital design and delivery of healthier schools

As of 2019, the UK Government has committed to a “presumption in favour” of off-site construction for procurement of all new buildings by all key government departments. This multi-pronged research programme set out to show how timber can meet one specific public procurement need—more school...


Read more at: Research Profile - Precision Engineered Timber – Digital design and delivery of healthier schools

Research Profile - Precision Engineered Timber – Digital design and delivery of healthier schools

22 September 2022

Engineered timber offers a cost-effective solution to the UK’s building needs, improving construction productivity and performance. Combining digital design and off-site manufacturing, engineered-timber buildings can be efficiently and sustainably built, operated and maintained, and provide pleasant facilities for those...


Read more at: Research Profile - Staffordshire Bridges – long-term performance monitoring using fibre optic sensors

Research Profile - Staffordshire Bridges – long-term performance monitoring using fibre optic sensors

22 September 2022

A major rail upgrade programme to remove a bottleneck on the West Coast Main Line saw collaboration between Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, Volker Rail and Network Rail. The Stafford Area Improvement Programme included the construction of 10 new bridges designed by Atkins using Building Information Modelling (BIM) from the outset...