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Developing advanced, digitally enabled, manufacturing processes and products that can be used in new schools, hospitals and homes forms a core part of the Construction Innovation Hub’s £72 million Government-backed transformative programme. The Hub is now inviting clients and businesses to input into the first of a series...

CDBB, a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub, has published The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Interoperability Report. It forms part of the Construction Innovation Hub’s work to grow the digital economy for the construction and infrastructure sector, and to develop and promote digital ways of working as...

CDBB has awarded Atkins and Orndance Survey the tender to support the research into the benefits of creating a National Digital Twin of the UK's infrastructure. Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and Ordnance Survey have been appointed by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) to research the benefits of...

Disclaimer: owing to purdah, we have not made reference to Government in this article CDBB awards Turner Harris tender to support development of a National Digital Twin The Centre for Digital Built Britain has appointed Manchester-headquartered consultancy Turner Harris to lead the Enablers stream of the National Digital...

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...

[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...

A group of talented youngsters will today see their dreams come true as the futuristic homes they designed are set to be brought to life. The 2019 Student Design Challenge, which is being delivered by education charity MOBIE and the recently launched Construction Innovation Hub, invited young people from across the UK to...

Mott MacDonald has been appointed as Delivery Partner for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Building Information Modelling (BIM) Pathfinder Programme, as part of the Cross-government Prosperity Funded Global Infrastructure Programme.

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.

Transforming Construction Alliance secures £72 million government funding to drive innovation and boost UK construction productivity.