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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: Blog - Building Blocks for Digitalization by Dan Rossiter

Blog - Building Blocks for Digitalization by Dan Rossiter

24 August 2020

by Dan Rossiter, BSI ( This article and image were originally published in BSI's Standards Outlook - Issue five and the BSI Website .) The built environment is massively important to the UK economy and the wider public good, encompassing as it does all major infrastructure such as road and rail and the buildings in which...


Read more at: Laying the foundations for digital twins with the Smart Infrastructure Index

Laying the foundations for digital twins with the Smart Infrastructure Index

11 August 2020

The Smart Infrastructure Index is enabling members of the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub) to measure their digital maturity and benchmark their progress against their peers. This is a key step in the journey towards a National Digital Twin as the Index results will not only reveal where members ’ currently are o n their digital...


Read more at: Blog: CDBB's BIM International Programme featured in Columbian magazine, Revista Urbana

Blog: CDBB's BIM International Programme featured in Columbian magazine, Revista Urbana

6 August 2020

CDBB is committed to promoting the UK BIM value to the international public sector community . Our International Development Programme, headed by Adam Matthews, aims to facilitate trade across countries by developing capabilities of foreign governments and public clients in digital construction, enabling them to achieve...


Read more at: Autonomous Navigation and the Built Environment Research Features in BBC’s ‘The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway’

Autonomous Navigation and the Built Environment Research Features in BBC’s ‘The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway’

22 July 2020

Autonomous navigation is a fiendishly complex challenge, but an innovative team, led by Dr. Amada Prorok, at Cambridge University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, has made it their mission to find new ways of coordinating artificially intelligent agents, such as autonomous cars, to improve traffic flow...


Read more at: Buildings Client Group

Buildings Client Group

The Buildings Client Group is a cross-sector leadership community working together to stimulate effective changes across the built environment. It aims to connect individuals who are leading digital adoption within their organisation. CDBB has transfered ownership to the Chartered Institute of...


Read more at: Stakeholder Engagement in Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure Projects

Stakeholder Engagement in Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure Projects

This project considers stakeholder engagement in Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure Projects. Digital transformation of the built environment is likely to have profound implications for the lived experiences and opportunities of different stakeholders, including individuals, communities...


Read more at: Buildings Client Group – Digital Responses to COVID-19

Buildings Client Group – Digital Responses to COVID-19

7 July 2020

bcg_logo_cmyk_black.jpg The Buildings Client Group is a members group consisting of leaders, directors and decision makers from across the property sector. Members focus on creating step-change within their own organisations, and ultimately across the sector, through the implementation of emerging digital practices...


Read more at: UIL: Making the digitally enabled services and supply chain 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...


Read more at: UIL: integration and optimisation of services embedded in the built environment

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-...


Read more at: CAR: creation and through-life management of built assets and infrastructure

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...