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Digital Roads Autonomous Maintenance Plant (AMP) will be demonstrated at the world's #1 AI conference, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), to be held in Bremen, Germany, 15 - 21 August 2026. This represents an excellent opportunity to share the work that has been achieved by our Automation and Robotics research te…

We are excited to announce a new job opportunity within the Digital Roads of the Future Initiative and Construction Information Technology Laboratory for a Programme Manager. The Programme Manager takes overall responsibility for the administration of the grants and associated human, physical and digital resources of the Construction Information Te…

We are pleased to announce that the paper "Development of a trustworthy AI-supported digital twin framework for road operation and maintenance" authored by Linjun Lu, Mengtian Yin, Yue Xie, Yuandong Pan, Mudan Wang, and Ioannis Brilakis has received the Best Paper Award 2025 by the Smart Construction Journal. This prestigious recognition highlights…

We are pleased to announce that the full paper submission deadline for our upcoming July events has been extended to 24 January 2026.This extension provides authors with additional time to prepare and submit their research for consideration. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your work and engage with leading experts in the field.New Deadline: 24…

The Digital Roads project has started the new year with two new publications on the autonomous repair of roads in the UK. The publications come from the Smart Materials, with Academic lead Prof Abir Al-tabbaa,  and Automation & Robotics, with Academic lead Prof Fumiya Iida.The first paper,Autonomous Maintenance of Highway Pavements: A Framework Aim…

We are delighted to announce that Digital Roads supported PhD student, Percy Lam, has been awarded Best Paper at the DIFA: Deep Learning-based Information Fusion and Its Applications Workshop, affiliated to the 36th British Machine Vision Conference for his paper, 'Robust pothole Detection through Dual-pass RGB and Depth Fusion'.The paper, co-autho…

We are proud to announce the 2nd Call for Papers for the unique event in the built environment research calendar, which is now even larger: The 26th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR), the 10th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE), the FUTUREROADS Conference, the 2…

We are proud to host unique event in the built environment research calendar: the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 2026 (SASBE), the FUTUREROADS Final Conference, and the Building Digital Twin Scientific Conference (BDTSC). These three conferences will be held jointly from 22–24 July 2026 in Cambridge, UK.This unique collaboration brings tog…

The Digital Roads team will be joining National Highways at their stand at Highways UK this year to present the Digital Roads Dataset. The Digital Roads Researchers; Dr Alix Marie d'Avigneau, Dr Lilia Potseluyko, and Dr Richard Anvo will be in attendance to talk to you about the project ambitions and the outcomes to date, so if you are attending th…

We are excited to announce a new job opportunity within the Digital Roads of the Future Initiative and Construction Information Technology Laboratory for a Programme Manager. The Programme Manager takes overall responsibility for the administration of the grants and associated human, physical and digital resources of the Construction Information Te…

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join us as an Events and Communications Coordinator and be responsible for the comprehensive planning and delivery of an academic event, comprising two co-located conferences and multiple satellite activities. This high-profile event attracts a diverse audience of academics, industry professionals, a…

The Construction Information Technology (CIT) Group is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Programme Coordinator to support its operations and help manage a portfolio of cutting-edge research projects. This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the intersection of academia and industry, supporting transformative research in digital constru…

We are delighted to announce that the Digital Roads Prosperity Partnership has been awarded the 2025 SCP Excellence in Collaboration Award by the International Society for Smart Construction and Production (SCP), the award was formally presented during the IPC 2025 Conference Dinner on 7 August 2025, Perth, Australia and though we could not be ther…

We are looking to recruit a fixed-term Events and Communication Coordinator to join us to help with the event organization and management!Closing date for applications is 25 August 2025.For more information, check out our website: https://drf.eng.cam.ac.uk/job-opportunities/events-and-communication-coordinator

It is with great pride and congratulations that we present the winners of the 2025 Anthony Thorpe Medal, Digital Roads PhD student Diana Davletshina, MSCA Future Roads Fellow Dr Varun Kumar Reja, and Digital Roads of the Future Principal Investigator, Prof Ioannis Brilakis, for the paper;Davletshina, D., Reja, V. K., and Brilakis, I. (2024) ”Automa…