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 data, great things happen.
nima news alerts
CLC golden thread guidance complements nima-led information management initiative
Nima welcomes the August 2024 publication by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) of its guidance for dutyholders and accountable persons on delivering the ‘golden thread’. Meanwhile the ongoing CLC work led by nima to refresh…
Making the UK BIM Framework work for clients and asset owners
From a client or owner-operator perspective, how does the UK BIM Framework support their information management needs? A nima workshop report sheds some light. At Digital Construction Week in June 2024, a workshop facilitated by…
Quality data and artificial intelligence (AI)
nima has been developing its position on artificial intelligence, and has shared a draft position paper to stimulate further discussion across the nima networks. Particularly since the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, there has been…
nima expands its team
To help manage the growing volume of work involved in running nima, including its ongoing input to the refreshed approach to the Information Management Mandate, the volunteer-led, virtual organisation has recruited three new vice chairs….
Good information management is critical to running HMP Five Wells
HMP Five Wells is the UK’s largest Category C resettlement prison, located in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Built almost entirely from standardised components, with a unique design that enables more contact…
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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.
