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This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain
 
Read more at: Publication: A Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Based Approach for Demand Forecasting within Power Grid Digital Twins

Publication: A Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Based Approach for Demand Forecasting within Power Grid Digital Twins

23 October 2019

screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.26.55.png Abstract Over the past few years, deep learning (DL) based electricity demand forecasting has received considerable attention amongst mathematicians, engineers and data scientists working within the smart grid domain. To this end, deep learning architectures such as deep neural...


Read more at: DT Hub Blog: David Cuckow from BSI on Setting up the DT Hub
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DT Hub Blog: David Cuckow from BSI on Setting up the DT Hub

17 October 2019

David Cuckow from BSI talks about the role of the Digital Twins Hub to share knowledge, agree on common approaches and inform future “good practice”. David is leading the team that will set up and facilitate the DT Hub, working as part of the CDBB team and together with the founder members and key stakeholders. Digital...


Read more at: Press Release: CDBB appoints BSI to create learning community for digital twin users

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...


Read more at: CDBB's inaugural National Digital Twin Day

CDBB's inaugural National Digital Twin Day

4 October 2019

Industry innovators from a range of infrastructure sectors attended the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) inaugural event of CDBB Week – National Digital Twin Day. Outputs from the NDT Day Media Release for NDT Day Presentations National Digital Twin - Mark Enzer, Chair DFTG The DT Hub - Samuel Chorlton, Chair DT...


Read more at: SME Blog - 1Spatial - 1Spatial’s digital twin journey - geospatial data infrastructures guiding digital twin adoption

SME Blog - 1Spatial - 1Spatial’s digital twin journey - geospatial data infrastructures guiding digital twin adoption

Setting a pathway to better information management The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG) has set out a pathway to better information management and guidance on digital twin adoption. The overarching purpose of the DFTG is to steer and guide the successful...


Read more at: SME Blog - Ecodomus - The Digital Journey from an SME

SME Blog - Ecodomus - The Digital Journey from an SME

As a SME we have experienced a shift in the market with the term Digital Twin promoting the full lifecycle approach to facilities management and building a bridge between BIM and Smart Cities. EcoDomus is a software platform that has developed from a COBie middleware to a lifecycle common data...


Read more at: SME Blog - Tonic Analytics - Digital Twins - From Greek Mythology to the Gemini Principles

SME Blog - Tonic Analytics - Digital Twins - From Greek Mythology to the Gemini Principles

In Greek mythology, the minotaur was a ferocious creature of half bull and half man. So dangerous was the minotaur, that Minos, King of Crete, tasked Daedalus, the great architect and engineer, to build a labyrinth to house the minotaur. The labyrinth was famous for being unnavigable; once in...


Read more at: SME Blog - Accucities3D - models of cities for Digital Twin Projects

SME Blog - Accucities3D - models of cities for Digital Twin Projects

It seems that somehow stringent planning laws in the UK - and especially in London - inadvertently helped the UK to be in the forefront of the digital twins market for cities. UK specific Right of Light, Right of view, Viewing corridors or the Maximum buildings heights grid around St Paul's...


Read more at: SME Blogs from participants at National Digital Twin Day

SME Blogs from participants at National Digital Twin Day

30 September 2019

We were delighted to have SMEs as active participants at this year's National Digital Twin Day, which was held during CDBB week. Following the event, we invited them to give us their thoughts and insights into their digital twin journey. Below you will find several of the organisations have taken the opportunity to tell us...


Read more at: Blog: CDBB Week: the view from New Zealand

Blog: CDBB Week: the view from New Zealand

24 September 2019

A mysterious figure was spotted at every single event during CDBB week. Who was he, the CDBB team wanted to know, and what was he doing here? We tracked him down at the Summer Showcase and unmasked him as Professor Robert Amor, Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Naturally...