About Us
We are a collaborative centre committed to making building data accessible, meaningful, and impactful. To do that, we need clear, connected actions — across people, projects, and platforms. At C-BEDS, we unite the built environment through open standards, shared language, and trust-based collaboration.
​Data-interoperability infrastructure for Circular Construction (DICC) Workshop
In London on 25th April 2025, this workshop brought together 52 diverse participants spanning academia, policy, technology providers, and implementers to collaboratively explore the path toward semantic interoperability in the built environment in general and the circular economy in particular.
C-BEDS Roadmap
Based on the analysis, five main aspects critical to advancing semantic interoperability in the built environment has been identified: Aligned Standards and Requirements, Shared Strategic Vision, Integrated System Architecture, Organisational and Human Capability, and Incentives and Value Realisation. These areas structure the 30 key actions surfaced during the workshop, each mapped across three phases: what needs to happen now, what should follow next, and what must be targeted later.
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Crucially, the actions are not isolated initiatives. They operate as a system: shared vision provides the strategic anchor for aligning standards; standards make implementation possible through system architectures; system tools only function if supported by skilled people; and people and organisations act when incentivised to do so. Each category reinforces the others, and each phase—now, next, later—depends on feedback from the whole system to remain relevant and adaptive.
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