A human geographer by background, Dr Sabina Maslova's research interests include migrant housing, professional migration, housing decision-making, expatriates, residential mobility, and transnational work.
UIL: Making the digitally enabled services and supply chain work
This workpackage explores the capabilities needed: by government, by those involved in the specification, design and delivery of built assets and across a portfolio of services, through-life, for businesses and citizens, and the capabilities needed by government, business and citizens to best...
UIL: integration and optimisation of services embedded in the built environment
This report explores the capabilities required to specify, procure, design, deliver and manage services based on, and embedded in, the built environment in order to optimise effectiveness, efficiency and productivity for their stakeholders, whilst making best use of data and information through-...
CAR: creation and through-life management of built assets and infrastructure
The past 20 years have witnessed a transformation in digital technologies that touches every part of life in Great Britain. We now take completely for granted the ability to take digital photographs, access precise locations using satellite technologies, and access a world of information from the...
Procurement strategies for incentivising collaborative delivery to optimise whole-life outcomes
The digital disruption of traditional norms fuels arguments that digital technology gives rise to completely new collaborative models and has significant impact on construction procurement systems. BIM and other digital technologies shine a harsh light on disjointed procurement practices and...
Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects
28 January 2020
Becoming Digital: Enacting Digital Transformation in Construction Projects cdbb_wp_040_thayla_zomer_imagex300.jpg Our January Monthly paper is a working paper by Thalya Zomer, Andy Neely, Ajith Parlikad and Veronica Martinez. The paper investigates the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in construction...
Seven Common Challenges Facing Governments when introducing BIM
W orking with countries globally to secure a common approach to BIM at the same time as developing the domestic BIM programme has generated practical understanding. Adam Matthews, lead for CDBB International, reflects on this experience and sets out seven ‘big questions’ for national BIM programmes...
James Harris on the Ambitions of the Enablers Stream
22 November 2019
Following the appointment of Manchester-headquartered consultancy Turner Harris to lead the Enablers stream of the National Digital Twin (NDT) Programme, CEO James Harris, Enablers stream lead, is looking forward to grappling some of the key challenges to Digital Twin adoption. In this, the first of what I hope will become...
Blog: Digital Innovation in Construction by Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei
18 October 2019
CDBB and the Construction Innovation Hub have just completed the ‘6 week burst’ - an intense period of engagement activity starting with CDBB week, including UK Construction Week and concluding with Digital Construction Week this week. Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei , a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Housing and...
Press Release: CDBB appoints BSI to create learning community for digital twin users
17 October 2019
The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) has appointed BSI as Hub Facilitators for the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub), a web-enabled community for early adopters, suppliers and creators of digital twins. The establishment of the DT Hub is the latest in a number of high-profile deliverables for CDBB’s National Digital Twin...
