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Inspiring. Influencing. Connecting. Supporting. Transforming.
Nima promotes information management best practices, helping to support digital transformation across the built and managed environment. Formerly the UK BIM Alliance, it is a not-for-profit, volunteer-led virtual organisation.
Our ultimate vision is a thriving and sustainable built and natural environment transformed by exploiting purpose-driven data. As trusted advisors, we facilitate the implementation and integration of practical information management practices across our built and environmental infrastructure.
Our mission is to inspire, influence, connect and support everyone active in a transformed built and managed environment, and to enable everyone to better manage information vital to the needs of our times.
With trusted, quality data, great things happen.
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GIIG’s CCS project shortlisted for award
A project undertaken by the GIIG (nima’s not-for-profit consultancy arm) for the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has been shortlisted for an award. The GIIG focuses on practical ways to enable efficient information flows in construction…
nima welcomes CIC push for a data-driven approach
nima has welcomed the Construction Industry Council‘s push for a wider data-driven approach across the sector. The representative forum for UK professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations has highlighted the opportunity to improve sectoral…
nima to cease posting on ‘X’
nima is to cease active posting on X (formerly Twitter) due to declining engagement and the proliferation of misinformation. Joining Twitter in May 2016 as @UKBIMAlliance, and later (October 2022) becoming @WeAreNima, the organisation grew…
100,000 views of UK BIM Framework since June 2024 revamp
Less than six months after its June 2024 upgrade, the improved UK BIM Framework has received over 100,000 views. The Framework’s latest major update was launched to coincide with Digital Construction Week in London on…
Creating a New Information Management Platform for a Major UK Airport
A major UK airport was planning for significant expansion. Many infrastructure projects were planned and scheduled for delivery over a 10-year period, which needed careful project management and…
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Did you know the buildingSMART UK and Ireland chapter has been powered by nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) since 2017? bSUKI is the UK and Ireland Chapter of buildingSMART International.
The project activities of nima and bSUKI are now more visible, integrated and accessible to you. We are responsible for gathering industry requirements and representing the UK and Ireland’s needs at international level. When standards are being developed, we help to ensure these needs are catered for.
