Welcome to nima!

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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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.

With thanks to nima’s platinum patrons …

What
they say …

“Digital transformation is a key aspect of the journey to build an effective and forward-thinking approach to asset management.  We are very pleased to join the affiliates programme.  It’s a great opportunity to be part of the growing community across many industry sectors and organisations that are using BIM to maximise value from the built environment and to coordinate our approach to identifying and achieving best practice.”
Graeme Bruce
Chair IAM UK Chapter
“Digitalisation of the nuclear sector is not something that happens overnight; however, our progressive approach to BIM, embracing new technologies and digitalisation corresponds to high levels of active participation in our Special Interest Group (DIG-SIG) and provides a focus for discussion and change.

It is therefore great to support a wider BIM community and to be able to share multiple sector learning through co-operation.”
Alastair Laird
Trustee Nuclear Institute
“We have partnered with and supported UK BIM Alliance for several years and are particularly delighted at the formation of the affiliates group.  We look forward to continuing and broadening our collaboration with the nima community.”
Rick Hartwig
Built Environment Lead at the IET