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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: Our Artefacts Our Stories

Our Artefacts Our Stories

16 March 2022

This physical and digital book celebrates the extraordinary progress we have made with our partners in industry, academia and government in creating a solid foundation for a digital built Britain. CDBB’s overarching role was to bring people together, to convene, connect and coordinate across the whole of the built...


Read more at: Celebrating mission complete

Celebrating mission complete

11 March 2022

CDBB was created to drive forward the digitalisation of the built environment to create a better future for people and the planet. In the past five years, it has brought together people from across industry, academia, and policy to meet that goal. Mark Enzer (Director) and Alexandra Bolton (Executive Director), from the...


Read more at: Launching our vision for the future

Launching our vision for the future

10 March 2022

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) publishes the Gemini Papers today (Thursday 10 March) to outline a blueprint for the future - demonstrating the value of connected digital twins and how they can enable people and nature to flourish together for generations to come. Driven by the Gemini Principles of purpose...


Read more at: Press Release: CDBB Director elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering  

Press Release: CDBB Director elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering  

21 September 2021

Mark Enzer OBE, FREng, Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), Head of the National Digital Twin Programme, Digital Director and board member for the Construction Innovation Hub and Chief Technical Officer of Mott MacDonald has today been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in...


Read more at: Blog: Digital Twins - the challenges of knowledge transfers and market penetration

Blog: Digital Twins - the challenges of knowledge transfers and market penetration

2 September 2020

Built Environment Digital Twinning has been published and is available for download. The report, authored by Ioannis Brilakis , Yuandong Pan, André Borrmann and associates from Siemens is the outcome of the International Workshop on Built Environment Digital Twinning , which was held in Germany in December 2019, co-...


Read more at: Blog: Digital Twins: How to ensure data is informing better decision making

Blog: Digital Twins: How to ensure data is informing better decision making

11 March 2020

The Centre for Digital Built Britain works in partnership with the Infrastructure Client Group's Digital Transformation Task Group (DTTG) on the National Digital Twin Programme and its Digital Twin Hub. To understand more about each initiative and to hear Mark Enzer, Chair of both DTTG and the 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: Media Release: National Digital Twin Day launches week of activity to help modernise national infrastructure

Media Release: National Digital Twin Day launches week of activity to help modernise national infrastructure

9 September 2019

[Flikr photos from the day] The National Digital Twin (NDT) has been cited by the National Infrastructure Commission as having the potential to unlock an additional £7 billion per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sector [1]. Today in London, the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and the Institution of...


Read more at: DFTG Blog - Mark Enzer

DFTG Blog - Mark Enzer

5 July 2019

Following the release of tickets to the National Digital Twin Day , Mark Enzer, CTO of Mott MacDonald and Chair of CDBB’s Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), looks forward to a day celebrating our progress so far towards a National Digital Twin and enabling people at all stages of their digital twin journey to come...