Research

Publication: Final Report - From Norm to Swarm: development of a balanced scorecard for evaluating automation in construction

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.45.33.png Project background This project aims to develop a Balanced Score Card (BSC) to support the adoption of automation in construction. It will do this by delivering a set of indicators that ensure the sustainable development of these innovative processes and technologies in the UK...

Publication: Final Report - Digital Energy Estimation Tool (DEET)

10 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.28.01.png Project background How can buildings’ energy use and embodied energy both be optimized at the design stage? This project aims to enable the generation of real-time data from operational energy use and from energy embedded in building components. It will do this through 3-D computing...

Publication: Final Report - Information Resilience – exploring ways to leverage data and information to deliver a digital built Britain

9 July 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.37.10.png Project background Information Resilience (IR) can be defined as the process of reducing the vulnerability of information to threats during its lifespan. The aim of this project is to develop a holistic IR model that will systematically demonstrate how information in digital built...

2018 Research Workshops

Summary of the Research Network Scoping Workshop and Call for Networks, (5.3min) In this video we hear from Charles Bouton during the Research Network Scoping Workshop about the event and the next steps, and we hear from Jennifer Schooling about the newly announced Call for Networks. Introducing...

2018 Summer Showcase

CDBB Summer Showcase - Andy Neely Welcome, Introduction and 'What is a Digital Built Britain' CDBB Summer Showcase, 30 July 2018, St. Catharine's College - a highlights film (2m) CDBB Summer Showcase - Mini-Project Short Presentations Machine Learning and AI in the Built Environment presented by...

Case Study: Towards a digitally enabled estate: the University of Cambridge

4 June 2019

This report describes the uses of BIM technologies and implementation of BIM processes, examples of its benefits and some of the main lessons learned from BIM implementation during Project Capella, which forms part of the University’s Biomedical Campus. cdbb_yearone_graphics_forpowerpoint10.png Outcomes In this project...

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.

Publication: Final Report - Complex Systems Network

25 April 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.23.50.png Project background This network takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the state-of-the-art in use of modelling support for infrastructure planning decision making, both in industry and policy practice, and in the research community; needs of the practitioner community...

Open ML Training Data For Visual Tagging Of Construction-specific Objects (ConTag)

ConTag will generate an open dataset for visual machine learning (ML) specific to the construction industry.

Publication: Final Report - Network for Ontologies (FOuNTAIN)

30 January 2019

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_12.06.22.png Project background This research network aims to take a user-centric approach to interacting with information, from search and retrieval to browsing and exploration, and to consider the following three dimensions: (1) the lifecycle of information, from its creation, delivery, capture...