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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: Energy Planning for Resilient Decarbonization

Energy Planning for Resilient Decarbonization

This project develops probabilistic master-planning tools to support effective implementation of energy policies in UK cities.


Read more at: Digital Modelling of the Evolution of the Built Form in Britain

Digital Modelling of the Evolution of the Built Form in Britain

In this project we define ‘built form’ as the assemblage of individual buildings and structures in the built environment and we make use of a wide range of new insights and data to model the evolution of the built form in Britain.


Read more at: Co-Creating a City-Scale Digital Strategy and Framework: A Systems and Co-production Approach

Co-Creating a City-Scale Digital Strategy and Framework: A Systems and Co-production Approach

This pilot study is investigating how collaboration between public authorities, private business and other city stakeholders could enhance the benefits of ‘smart’ digitally enabled infrastructure and other built assets for the benefit of urban populations.


Read more at: Publication: Final report from the Pedagogy and Upskilling Network

Publication: Final report from the Pedagogy and Upskilling Network

15 January 2019

screenshot_2020-06-24_at_13.39.58.png Research background This research network aims to: establish the existing landscape; determine the current position and future vision in relation to other industry bodies that are fundamental in shaping the future of built environment education and training; establish the bottlenecks...


Read more at: Publication: Final Report - Autonomous Image Recapture

Publication: Final Report - Autonomous Image Recapture

11 July 2018

screenshot_2020-07-01_at_15.16.53.png Project background This research project has used advanced image processing and computer vision techniques to recreate geospatial viewpoints of some historic, 17th century David Loggan line drawings of Cambridge Colleges. Subsequent drone flights then captured current images of the...


Read more at: Invitation to Express Interest in a Research Network Scoping Workshop
Invitation to Express Interest in a Research Network Scoping Workshop

Invitation to Express Interest in a Research Network Scoping Workshop

26 February 2018

Call for expressions of interest in participating in network bids and potential future research programmes. An initial Workshop will bring together an academic community interested in the research to be done around enhancing the performance of built assets and the services that depend upon them by better use of data. It will include a series of workshops in order to support the creation of networks to explore the current and needed capabilities of the UK in moving towards a digital built Britain.


Read more at: Research Summary from Scoping Study
Research Summary from Scoping Study

Research Summary from Scoping Study

12 January 2018

Summary of research scoping study conducted in June 2017.