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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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…
nima pleased to support DCW 2025
nima is pleased to be again supporting Digital Construction Week (DCW), back at Excel London on 4-5 June 2025 for a special 10th anniversary edition. The free-to attend expo event features two days of inspiring…
nima chair starts 100-day backpacking marathon
nima chair Anne Kemp is undertaking a major charity fundraising walk for Alzheimer’s Society starting today, Friday 14 March 2025. In memory of her mother, Anne is backpacking 1220 miles over 100 days from southwest…
Collecting as-installed data using simple Microsoft tools
At the Handover stage of construction projects, both Contractors and Facilities Managers are in a race against time to collect comprehensive asset information for every piece of equipment…
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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.
