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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: Vision Network

Vision Network

This research network contributes to developing the research agenda, enhancing the level of performance and digitisation for future smart cities and smart construction at citizen, portfolio, organisation and project levels. The objective of the Vision Network is to delineate the current augmented...


Read more at: Recommendations for automated checking of regulations and requirements management in healthcare design

Recommendations for automated checking of regulations and requirements management in healthcare design

BIM-based tools for automated compliance checking can potentially mitigate some of the negative effects of complexity in healthcare design. The practical adoption of a level of automation in the checking of healthcare design regulations can support achieve transparency and consistency for designers...


Read more at: Analysing Systems Interdependencies using a Digital Twin

Analysing Systems Interdependencies using a Digital Twin

This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin. This work provides a first step toward next-generation systems engineering by demonstrating the feasibility of using a digital twin to generate new insight on systems relationships and interdependencies. ...


Read more at: Urban Planning and BIM

Urban Planning and BIM

The project aimed to understand the extent to which the UK planning system is engaging with BIM at different spatial scales (e.g., individual building, development scheme, city, region). It explores how the planning system could better help deliver BIM and inform local and national policy actors...


Read more at: Dr Didem Gurdur Broo

Dr Didem Gurdur Broo

Research Background


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Feasibility of an Operating System for Interspatial Networking in a Built Environment

Publication: Final Report - Feasibility of an Operating System for Interspatial Networking in a Built Environment

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_17.09.44.png Project background Osmose is a project aimed at building a new operating system for situated environments that can handle the demands of thousands of sensors and actuators that need to run in a coordinated and highly reliable fashion. Outomes Digital infrastructure in modern urban...


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Open ML Training Data For Visual Tagging Of Construction-specific Objects (ConTag)

Publication: Final Report - Open ML Training Data For Visual Tagging Of Construction-specific Objects (ConTag)

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.59.13.png Project background ML technology has enabled a revolutionary leap in many digital economies generating growth in activity and business mainly for the ITC sector. Part of the growth is generated through sharing of IP, knowledge, tools and datasets. We want to adopt this approach for the...


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Analysing Systems Interdependencies using a Digital Twin

Publication: Final Report - Analysing Systems Interdependencies using a Digital Twin

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-06-30_at_21.51.57.png Project background This project investigates how to understand infrastructure complexity, using the digital twin. This work provides a first step toward next-generation systems engineering by demonstrating the feasibility of using a digital twin to generate new insight on systems...


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Digital Compliance Network (D-COM)

Publication: Final Report - Digital Compliance Network (D-COM)

16 May 2019

dcom.png Project background The entire lifecycle of the built environment is governed by a variety of regulations, requirements and standards. The checking of compliance against these is a complex task, which is currently performed manually, thus becoming resource intensive. Recently, the increased maturity of information...


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Complex Systems Network

Publication: Final Report - Complex Systems Network

25 April 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.23.50.png Project background This network takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the state-of-the-art in use of modelling support for infrastructure planning decision making, both in industry and policy practice, and in the research community; needs of the practitioner community...