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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A buildingSMART Implementers update
nima vice chair Emma Hooper recently attended the buildingSMART General Assembly of Implementers meeting at Trimble’s headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The event is focused on the software implementation of buildingSMART standards and services within software….
nima Autumn Virtual Conference 2024 and the Information Management Initiative
The third nima Virtual Conference on 7 November 2024 will be focused on discussion of a refreshed UK approach to information management for the built and managed environment: the ‘Information Management Initiative’ (IMI). This latest…
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…
Developing BIM & Information Management Capability in a Facilities Management Organisation
Skanska Facilities Services (Skanska FS) is the facilities management (FM) arm of Skanska (a multi-national construction company). They were capturing large volumes of asset information from its portfolio…
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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.
