National Digital Twin

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...

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...

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...

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...

DT Hub Blog: The vision for a National Digital Twin

20 September 2019

DT Hub Blog September 2019 Sarah Hayes, author of the National Infrastructure Commission’s ‘Data for the Public Good’ (2017), reflects on progress and possibilities on the development of a National Digital Twin following her keynote at the recently held National Digital Twin Day. At National Digital Twin Day, CDBB and the...

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...

National Digital Twin Programme

The National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) was run by the Centre for Digital Built Britain, a partnership between the University of Cambridge and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Launched by HM Treasury in July 2018, the NDTp was set up to deliver key recommendations of...

What is the National Digital Twin (NDT)?

7 September 2019

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. The NDT will be a national resource for improving the performance, service and value delivered by the UK’s...

DT Hub Blog: Driving towards a National Digital Twin - an applied approach

20 August 2019

Ahead of the National Digital Twin Day event that is part of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s CDBB Week 2019, Samuel Chorlton, chair of CDBB’s Digital Twin Hub Steering Group and Project and Technical Lead for the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI), calls for a collaborative and applied approach in the journey towards a National Digital Twin.

Alexandra Robasto

Alexandra joined the National Digital Twin Programme at CDBB in May 2019. She is the Programme Manager for the DT Hub. Her role is to support the DTHub Chair and the Stream Delivery Lead in starting up and developing the newly born DTHub Community. Alexandra holds a degree in Economics from the University of Torino and is a PRINCE 2 qualified project manager.