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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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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…

Want to be a nima vice chair?
nima is seeking expressions of interest from people who could become new Vice Chairs of the organisation. We are seeking someone to help identify and coordinate our volunteers, another to lead our upskilling and education…

Newly-branded IMI now supported by Autodesk
The first nima quarterly forum of 2025 highlighted the latest Information Management Initiative developments including a new IMI logo, and IMI sponsorship by technology provider Autodesk. IMI update In the forum, on 27 February 2025,…

Improvements needed in water sector information management, says BIM4Water chair
Change is needed to improve information management practices in the water sector, says Clare Taylor, chair of the 2,000-strong practitioners network BIM4Water in a wide-ranging major interview in BIMplus (26 February 2025). And she says…

Sponsoring a Major Project – The Crossrail Experience
The delivery of Crossrail – today, the Elizabeth Line across London – was undertaken with a strong focus on digital information. A report prepared for the Department for…
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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.