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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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UK Government consults on construction product data measures
Following the 2017 Grenfell disaster and the subsequent public inquiry, digital product passports and a National Construction Library holding construction product information have been proposed in a recent UK Government Green Paper (see also 27 February 2025 BIMplus article), with…

nima focuses on the Information Management Initiative (IMI) at Digital Construction Week 2025
Nima is hosting two stages at Digital Construction Week (DCW) at ExCEL in east London on 4-5 June 2025. This special 10th anniversary edition of the free-to attend expo event features numerous presentations, panel discussions…

Competency framework connects information management to procurement expertise
Nima has welcomed a new competency framework for procurement practitioners that embeds information management skills and knowledge as minumum competency requirements for professionals engaged in procurement in the built environment in England. The 14-page Competence…

The National Data Library and the ‘interoperability imperative’
Interoperability and the planned National Data Library were prominent topics in a half-day conference, Cyber Physical Infrastructure: Future Forum, held at Digital Catapult in London on 31 March 2025. The event concluded a series of…

Sellafield: Common Data Environment (CDE) – a Project13 example
Sellafield Ltd is the UK’s most complex nuclear site containing some of the most hazardous nuclear facilities in Europe. The importance of effective Information Management (IM) has been consistently…
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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.