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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: Principle-based digital twins: a scoping review

Principle-based digital twins: a scoping review

19 December 2019

GeminiPrinciplesimage.jpg To understand how transformative the Gemini Principles are to the development of digital twins, we looked at academic literature for any examples where digital twin implementations were based on similar precepts. The result is a light-touch scoping review on principle-based digital twins, now...


Read more at: High-level introduction and summary of the SFT BIM Return on Investment (ROI) Tool

High-level introduction and summary of the SFT BIM Return on Investment (ROI) Tool

18 December 2019

The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) lead the Scottish Building Information Modelling (BIM) programme at a national level on behalf of the Scottish Government; it has developed a suite of tools and guidance on its BIM Portal https://bimportal.scottishfuturestrust.org.uk/ . The portal and associated tools were developed to help...


Read more at: UK BIM Framework Publishes two new reports to support BIM implementation

UK BIM Framework Publishes two new reports to support BIM implementation

6 November 2019

Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery (second edition) and Government Soft Landings, revised guidance for the public sector on applying BS8536 parts 1 & 2, published today by the UK BIM Framework The UK BIM Framework today releases two documents to support practitioners in embedding and implementing Building...


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: 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: NIC Annual Monitoring Report 2019
NIC Annual Monitoring Report 2019

NIC Annual Monitoring Report 2019

22 February 2019

The Centre for Digital Built Britain and the Digital Framework Task Group commended in the National Infrastructure Commission Annual Monitoring Report 2019


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: CDBB Year One Report: Towards a digital built Britain
CDBB Year One Report: Towards a digital built Britain

CDBB Year One Report: Towards a digital built Britain

17 December 2018

CDBB's Year One Report: Towards a digital built Britain, has now been released.


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.