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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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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…
Construction Leadership Council and nima launch Information Management Initiative (IMI)
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC), with nima, has launched the ‘Information Management Initiative‘ (IMI). It aims to progressively transform information management practices across the built and natural environment sector. Led by the CLC and supported…
John Hall receives nima award
John Hall is the latest recipient of the nima Outstanding Contribution Award. A volunteer who has contributed extensively to nima, particularly since it rebranded from the UK BIM Alliance in October 2022, John’s honour was…
BIM4Estates to develop standard requirements for universities
Rich Draper, chair of the 100+-member nima network BIM4Estates, is interviewed in a two-part article on BIMplus (part 1; part 2), and says the group is going to develop standard information requirements for universities. In…
BIM enables Coventry University to manage its global estates
Coventry University has multiple campuses in the UK and worldwide. The main campus is based in Coventry with an additional four locations in London, Scarborough and Wroclaw, Poland….
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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.
