UK Flood & Coastal defence relies on good Information Management

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. As we begin to connect more, we need to have trust in asset data and independent assurance is a new approach.” Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk…

Collecting as-installed data using simple Microsoft tools

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 in the building. The Excel spreadsheet is the typical format for importing that information into Computer-Aided Facilities Management Systems (e.g. Maximo, Archibus FM, Planon, etc.)  However, in…

Sellafield: Common Data Environment (CDE) – a Project13 example

Sellafield: Common Data Environment (CDE) – a Project13 example

Sellafield Ltd is the UK’s most complex nuclear site containing some of the most hazardous nuclear facilities in Europe. The importance of effective Information Management (IM) has been consistently recognised to aid intelligent decision making, however our approach has been systems and function led, creating the collation of decades of information, which is no longer exploitable…

Implementing BIM to create a retrospective ‘as-built’

Implementing BIM to create a retrospective ‘as-built’

As part of the UK Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) – the biggest hospital building programme in a generation – Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) was granted seed funding to improve their hospital estate. When starting work on this, MKUH soon recognised there were gaps in their ways of working when it came to using data intelligently,…

BIM from Construction through to Facility Management

BIM from Construction through to Facility Management

The University of Worcester were looking to transform their former Worcester News building—a large two and three storey 1965 building – into a first-class centre for the education of health professionals. Now named by the University as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building, in honour of the first woman in Britain to qualify as a physician…

Delivering Valuable Data: Feedback please!

Delivering Valuable Data: Feedback please!

Reliable and appropriately secure information is the life-blood of an organisation, essential for decision-making. All too often, the technologies we use, or the ways we use them, create barriers to the exploitation of data and information in our own organisations or in sharing it with supply chain partners.  Delivering Valuable Data, the interoperability code of…

Glodon – a new international Platinum Patron for nima!

Glodon – a new international Platinum Patron for nima!

We’re so excited to announce that during the launch of our new identity, we gained the support of Glodon as a new international Platinum Patron and member of our Technology Group. As a global provider of Digital Building Platforms, Glodon has over two decades of experience in the building and construction industry and has built…

BIM is a ‘critical enabler’ at Royal Devonport Dockyard

BIM is a ‘critical enabler’ at Royal Devonport Dockyard

Babcock Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) are currently going through a large capital programme of infrastructure upgrades across the Royal Devonport Dockyard. Due to the nature of our projects/business, Information Management utilising BIM and its Information Security are key drivers for us.  Our adoption of BIM is a critical enabler as it supports collaboration but puts…