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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: Capability Framework and Research Agenda for a Digital Built Britain

Capability Framework and Research Agenda for a Digital Built Britain

2 August 2019

Capability Framework and Research Agenda One of the questions the Department for BEIS originally asked CDBB was - “ what do we need to do to build a digital built Britain”? We have since conducted roughly two years of work - with over 90 researchers in six research networks, four consultancy studies and a series of...


Read more at: Monthly Paper: On the Governance of City Digital Twins
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Monthly Paper: On the Governance of City Digital Twins

28 July 2019

Our July Monthly Paper is a working paper by Dr Timea Nochta, Nicole Badstuber and Dr Noura Wahby looking at city digital twins. On the Governance of City Digital Twins – Insights from the Cambridge case study Dr Timea Nochta, Nicole Badstuber and Dr Noura Wahby Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Department...


Read more at: Research Landscape: Scoping Review

Research Landscape: Scoping Review

25 June 2019

The June monthly paper, by Kirsten Lamb, outlines the digital built Britain research landscape by means of a scoping review and gap analysis. This has informed the Capability Framework and Research Landscape work being conducted by CDBB on identifying the research capabilities needed to create a digital built Britain...


Read more at: Monthly Paper: Citizen Requirements within a Smart Cities framework
Monthly Paper: Citizen Requirements within a Smart Cities framework

Monthly Paper: Citizen Requirements within a Smart Cities framework

13 May 2019

Our May Monthly Paper is by James Heaton and Ajith Parlikad looking at a framework for the alignment of infrastructure assets to citizen requirements within a Smart Cities framework.


Read more at: Press Release: Roadmap from the DFTG and launch of Digital Twin Hub
Press Release: Roadmap from the DFTG and launch of Digital Twin Hub

Press Release: Roadmap from the DFTG and launch of Digital Twin Hub

5 April 2019

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) is delighted to publish the Roadmap - the next output of the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG). The Roadmap sets out how the Information Management Framework for the built environment (the ‘Framework’) will be delivered, which in turn will enable the development of the National Digital Twin (NDT).


Read more at: Building Beautiful - March Paper by Prof Andy Neely

Building Beautiful - March Paper by Prof Andy Neely

26 March 2019

The March Paper in the CDBB Publication Series is by Andy Neely, who looks at how AR and VR can allow us to build beautiful.


Read more at: Service Business Model Innovation: the digital twin technology

Service Business Model Innovation: the digital twin technology

22 January 2019

January Paper in the CDBB Publication Series paper by Veronica Martinez and Andy Neely, Audrey Ouyang, University of Cambridge, Caroline Burstall, Caterpillar and Dav Bisessar, International Business Machines Corporation


Read more at: Press Release: Principles to guide the development of the National Digital Twin released
Press Release: Principles to guide the development of the National Digital Twin released

Press Release: Principles to guide the development of the National Digital Twin released

6 December 2018

CDBB has published the first output of its Digital Framework Task Group, The Gemini Principles. The paper sets out proposed principles to guide the national digital twin and the information management framework that will enable it.


Read more at: IOT Network Behaviours and Dependencies

IOT Network Behaviours and Dependencies

20 November 2018

November Paper in the CDBB Publication Series paper by Poonam Yadav, Qi Li and Richard Mortier, from the Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge


Read more at: Monthly Paper: A Bayesian Definition of Most Probable Parameter
Monthly Paper: A Bayesian Definition of Most Probable Parameter

Monthly Paper: A Bayesian Definition of Most Probable Parameter

29 October 2018

October Monthly Paper - 'A Bayesian Definition of 'Most Probable' Parameters' by Yingyan Jin, Dr Giovanni Biscontin and Prof. Paolo Gardoni