Skills and Education

Graduate Digital Capabilities for Built Environment Professionals

Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:00 to 17:00

Calling built environment graduates and graduate managers! Please submit your expression of interest* for a place at one of our workshops. About this Event Design Council is proud to be working with the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), a member of the Construction Innovation Hub, on a new project exploring the...

Press Release: Design Council hosts workshops to address digital skills gap in built environment sector

20 November 2020

A series of workshops identifying the digital capabilities needed by recent graduates in built environment professions is to be hosted by Design Council, on behalf of the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) – a member of the Construction Innovation Hub. Kicking off this December, the workshops will form the first phase...

Tender: Skills to implement the Information Management Framework Part 1: Capability framework

18 September 2020

The purpose of this work is to understand the breadth and depth of skills and roles required to successfully develop, implement and operate an Information Management Framework (IMF) and working towards a National Digital Twin as an ecosystem of connected digital twins. The Information Management Framework (IMF) aims to...

UK BIM Framework publishes updated Guidance for Information Management according to BS EN ISO 19650

4 September 2020

A new suite of guidance documents to support BS EN ISO 19650-2 the delivery phase of assets and ISO 19650-3 the operational phase has been released today by BSI, CDBB and the UK BIM Alliance. This suite of guidance documents (which comprises Guidance Parts 1 – 3 and Parts A – F) has been developed in response to a...

Tender: Graduate Digital Capabilities - online workshops

10 August 2020

CDBB is looking for an organisation to event-manage and facilitate two series of online workshops and dissemination of outputs to the built environment sector. The objective of the project is to gain broad agreement on the digital capabilities required by graduate entrants across the built-environment. This will generate a...

UK BIM Framework publishes new resource to support BIM training providers

29 July 2020

The UK BIM Framework has released a free resource to support the development of training content for building information modelling (BIM) aligned with current standards. The UK BIM Framework Learning Outcomes and other helpful resources are available on th e UK BIM Framework website . Based upon the BIM Academic Forum’s ‘...

Dr Hannah Holmes

Research background

I completed my PhD on territorial stigma in the regeneration of Middlehaven Middlesbrough within the Department of Geography at Durham University. My research interests include urban marginality, territorial stigma, gentrification, and governance.

Pedagogy and Upskilling Network

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 in the adoption and implementation...

Building Impulse: A novel digital toolkit for productive, healthy and resource-efficient buildings

This project aimed to create a toolkit for capturing occupant satisfaction with their environment in buildings in order to feed the next generation of smart buildings with a more holistic set of metrics for comfort and enjoyment of a space. The toolkit consists of a range of existing sensors and...

Future Cities and BIM

This project addresses the question of how European cities are adapting to BIM, and what awareness there is of BIM in future city thinking and strategies, particularly around Smart Cities. It also looks at what tools and policies are being used to take forward BIM in city development and thinking...