Clients
The Construction Innovation Hub brings together world-class expertise from the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), BRE and the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) to transform the UK construction industry.
The National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) is 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 the National Infrastructure Commission’s 2017 'Data for the Public Good Report'.
High-quality, secure data can improve how infrastructure is built, managed, operated and eventually decommissioned. It is therefore crucial that this data is captured and used effectively to bring forward savings for stakeholders and ensure societal benefits for all. This focus is reflected in the NDTp’s objectives:
- Enable a National Digital Twin – an ecosystem of connected digital twins to foster better outcomes from our built environment;
- Deliver an Information Management Framework – to ensure secure resilient data sharing and effective information management;
- Align a Digital Framework Task Group – to provide coordination and alignment among key players.
The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership between the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge to understand how the construction and infrastructure sectors could use a digital approach to better design, build, operate, and integrate the built environment.
CooperVision is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses and related products and services. Its parent company, The Cooper Companies, is a global medical device company. It was founded in 1980, and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. Its products are sold in over 100 countries. CooperVision manufactures in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico; Scottsville, New York; and Hamble in Hampshire, England. It has major distribution centers in the U.K., U.S., and Belgium.
FMV provides technology for Sweden's security. Its delivery is defence logistics, which means that it, in collaboration with its key partner the Armed Forces, design and provide the military with defence materiel and services. Technology and business expertise are its core competences.
"FMV has operations in about 80 locations in the country. Many of the projects are managed from Stockholm, where also headquarters and FMV's management is located."
"Our challenges require us to think in new ways. This applies to technology and business as well as collaborations."
The NATO Architecture Framework is an Enterprise Architecture framework by the NATO derived from the DoDAF Enterprise architecture.
The current NATO C3 System Architecture Framework v2 (NAF v2), issued by NATO in September 2004 provides guidance on describing communication and information systems. Revision 3 of the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF), promulgated in November 2007, is identical to MODAF at its core, but extends the framework by adding views for Bandwidth Analysis, SOA and standard configurations.
NAF Meta-Model (NMM)
NAF uses the same meta-model as MODAF. The meta-model is documented in chapter 5 of the NATO Architecture Framework. Version 3.1 of the NMM is identical to v1.2.003 of the MODAF Meta-Model.
QinetiQ is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is the world's 52nd-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues, and the sixth-largest based in the UK.
It is the part of the former UK government agency, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), privatised in June 2001, with the remainder of DERA renamed Dstl. It has major sites at Farnborough, Hampshire, MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, and Malvern, Worcestershire, former DERA sites. It has made numerous acquisitions, primarily of United States-based companies.
Serco Group plc is a British outsourcing company based in Hook, Hampshire. It operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools on behalf of its customers.
In the Defence market, Serco supports the armed forces of a number of countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, working across land, sea, air, nuclear and space environments..
Defence Home: https://www.serco.com/markets/defence
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing over 100k people and with operations in more than 70 countries. It is a user of advanced technologies and takes an innovative approach as seeking to help the world build a sustainable energy future. Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.
Tullow Oil is a leading independent oil exploration and production company, focused on finding and monetising oil in Africa and the Atlantic Margins.
Tullow Data Foundation
BORO Solutions worked with Tullow on to develop the Tullow Data Foundation (TDF). The TDF consolidates the application data under a common data foundation providing a framework spanning and integrating the applications. The basis for this framework was the the BORO™ Foundation. One of the main challenges was cleaning the data in a consistent way – enabling a common dataset. BORO Solutions provided the methodology for cleansing and transforming legacy data under a common foundation.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government, and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
Collaborators
Brunel University London is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1966, it was named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, the newly formed Belgian state began to administer the university. In 1930, it became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium, whereas French had previously been the standard academic language. In 1991, the university was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from State University of Ghent (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Gent, abbreviated as RUG) to its current designation.
UGent is one of the largest Flemish universities, consisting of 41,000 students and 9,000 staff members. Ghent University consistently rates among the top universities not only in Belgium but also throughout the world.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_University
ISO 15926 is a standard for data modelling and interoperability using the Semantic Web (RDF+OWL+FOL). ISO 15926 also contains an upper ontology and a reference data ontology.
It was originally made for the Oil and Gas industry, but it is set up generically so that it can be used for any type of information exchange and integration.
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin is the first Catholic university in Central and Eastern Europe and is among the oldest universities in Poland. Throughout its nearly 100-year history, it has become one of the most important centres of Catholic thought, which affects the shape of Polish science and culture, gaining wide recognition in the country and abroad. The mission of KUL is to conduct research in a spirit of harmony between science and faith, to educate and bring up Catholic intellectuals and co-create Catholic culture. The university’s motto is Deo et Patriae.
The Faculty of Philosophy conducts a full range of studies in Philosophy in English. We conduct a Bachelor’s Degree course as well as Master’s Degree course. Both courses culminate, respectively, in a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in philosophy in the student’s field of specialization. Students who have earned the Master’s Degree may continue doctoral studies in Philosophy in English.
The Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling, exploring the role of ontologies and ontology management in different fields, such as: knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, database design, information retrieval, natural language processing, and the semantic web. The group is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach that combines Computer Science, Philosophy and Linguistics, and relies on logic as a unifying paradigm. On the application side, special emphasis is given to the use of ontologies for e-government, enterprise modeling and integration, natural language processing, and the Semantic Web.
Model Futures provides expertise in enterprise architecture and information management. Our consultants and associates are internationally recognised experts.
It has provided consultancy and training to customers such as BAE Systems, CESG, Lockheed Martin, MOD, NHS, Niteworks, Raytheon, SESAR, Shell and Thales.
Established in 1994, Syntell operates worldwide, with headquarters in Stockholm and representatives in the UK and Germany. It is a mid-sized consultancy firm with over 50 highly qualified and experienced staff. It has a Syntell & Partners network that brings together more than 50 organizations with a total of over 1500 individuals.
The Technical University of Valencia is a Spanish university located in Valencia, with a focus on science and technology. It was founded in 1968 as the Higher Polytechnic School of Valencia and became a university in 1971, but some of its schools are more than 100 years old.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic_University_of_Valencia
The University of Westminster is a public university in London, United Kingdom. Its antecedent institution, the Royal Polytechnic Institution, was founded in 1838 and was the first polytechnic institution in the UK. Westminster was awarded university status in 1992 meaning it could award its own degrees.
Its headquarters and original campus are in Regent Street in the City of Westminster area of central London, with additional campuses in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Harrow.
Westminster's academic activities are organised into seven faculties and schools, within which there are around 45 departments. The University has numerous centres of research excellence across all the faculties, including the Communication and Media Research Institute, whose research is ranked in the Global Top 40 by the QS World University Rankings. Westminster had an income of £170.4 million in 2012/13, of which £4.5 million was from research grants and contracts.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Westminster
