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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: Digital Twin Journeys: Teaching a Computer to See
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Digital Twin Journeys: Teaching a Computer to See

25 March 2022

To asset owners and managers, understanding how people move through and use the built environment is a high priority, enabling better, more user-focused decisions. However, many of the methods for getting these insights can feel invasive to users of the built environment. The latest output from Digital Twin Journeys looks...


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Celebrating mission complete

11 March 2022

CDBB was created to drive forward the digitalisation of the built environment to create a better future for people and the planet. In the past five years, it has brought together people from across industry, academia, and policy to meet that goal. Mark Enzer (Director) and Alexandra Bolton (Executive Director), from the...


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Digital Twin Hub Launches Video Series

17 April 2020

The DT Hub is pleased to present Digital Twin Talks! Join us on the 28th April for the first video in a five part series exploring how digital twins are defined and the overarching concepts around them. The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), the Open Data Institute (ODI), the Data & Analytics Facility for...


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Videos from CDBB Week 2019

You can also subscribe to the CDBB YouTube Channel . National Digital Twin Day Videos CDBB Week Research Summer Showcase Videos: Andy Neely, Director CDBB, introduces CDBB and its programmes at the 2019 Summer Reserach Showcase: Fast paced videos presented during CDBB Week Summer Research Showcase...


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New Video explains the National Digital Twin and the Gemini Principles

18 December 2019

Launched by HM Treasury in July 2018, the CDBB’s National Digital Twin Programme was set up to deliver key recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission 2017 “ Data for the Public Good Report ”: to steer the successful development and adoption of the Information Management Framework for the built environment...


Read more at: Video Presentations from CDBB Week Summer Research Showcase

Video Presentations from CDBB Week Summer Research Showcase

Fast paced videos presented during CDBB Week Summer Research Showcase. CDBB Executive Director: Alexandra Bolton, University of Cambridge Introduction to the day CDBB Director: Prof. Andy Neely, University of Cambridge What’s been going on since last year’s Showcase Dr Franziska Sielker ...


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National Digital Twin Programme

The National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) was run by the Centre for Digital Built Britain, a partnership between the University of Cambridge and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Launched by HM Treasury in July 2018, the NDTp was set up to deliver key recommendations of...


Read more at: What is the National Digital Twin (NDT)?

What is the National Digital Twin (NDT)?

7 September 2019

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. The NDT will be a national resource for improving the performance, service and value delivered by the UK’s...


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Announcements

Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury announces launch of the Centre for Digital Built Britain' Digital Framework Task Group during visit to the University of Cambridge, (2.38m)


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Introducing the Centre for Digital Built Britain

Introducing the Centre for Digital Built Britain (12.3 min) Professor Andy Neely and Dr Mark Bew introduce the Centre and explain what a Digital Built Britain is, what the challenges are and how Cambridge will engage with its various stakeholders. Video Short: What is a Digital Built Britain? (1...