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Inspiring.
Influencing.
Connecting.
Supporting.
Transforming.
Nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) is a not-for-profit virtual organisation. It promotes information management best practices, helping to support digital transformation across the built and managed environment.
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 the built environment, and enable them to better manage information vital to the needs of our times.
With trusted data, great things happen.
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nima virtual spring conference – 18 April 2024
After the success of nima’s first virtual conference, on 2 November 2023, plans are already being formulated for a follow-up event. The nima virtual spring conference will be held online on Thursday 18 April 2024,…

WSP’s Mostafa Elashmawy becomes nima international ambassador
Nima is expanding its network of international ambassadors, with Mostafa Elashmawy – head of BIM and GIS at WSP Middle East – the latest addition. Mostafa graduated as a civil/structural engineer and worked as a…

Confidence the key theme at Women in BIM London conference
Confidence was the key theme at Women in BIM‘s London conference on 22 November 2023. Delegates were welcomed to the sold-out event, held at The View in Lincoln’s Inn, by Marie Grieve, newly appointed as…

Neill Tupman wins nima Virtual Conference prize
Brighton-based Neill Tupman, principal BIM technician at Royal HaskoningDHV, won the £250 technology voucher prize from the treasure hunt at nima’s virtual conference on 2 November 2023. Every person that completed the treasure hunt was…

UK Flood & Coastal defence relies on good Information Management
Delivering reliable digital data and information management for the Environment Agency’s physical flood and coastal defence assets “Data compliance and trusting data is essential in the digital world….
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Did you know the buildingSMART UK and Ireland chapter has been powered by nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) since 2015? 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.