A major UK airport was planning for significant expansion. Many infrastructure projects were planned and scheduled for delivery over a 10-year period, which needed careful project management and coordination. Huge volumes of project delivery information would be generated, with much of the information eventually being handed over to operations teams for business-as-usual activities. Major digital…
A Local Authority in the UK was awarded £650 million from Central Government to fund 45 infrastructure (highways) projects throughout the County. Vast volumes of infrastructure project and asset information would be generated from these projects,which needed to be collated, stored and managed in the client’s existing systems. The client was aware of inconsistencies in…
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 of FM contracts; the business saw an opportunity to analyse the data, generate insights, and highlight areas for business improvement. However, a quality check of the asset…
As part of our ongoing exercise in forming an understanding about National Level adoption of the ISO19650 suite of standards around the world, we have produced a short survey that we hope you can help with. This will help nima provide better resources and a level of industry engagement that influences positive steps forward throughout…
In 2022, ALEC began realigning its processes and template documentation according to ISO 19650-1&2 in preparation for company certification via bsi’s BIM Kitemark scheme. When revisting existing template documentation aligned to the previous 1192 suite of standards, ALEC took the opportunity to build new resources in a relational database (Morta), rather than using Microsoft Word…
nima and the members of the GIIG were sorry to hear of the recent death of Matthew West. A leading authority on information quality, ontology and data modelling, Matthew was a contributor to CDBB’s National Digital Twin programme, and was formative in the development of its Information Management Framework. For over 40 years Matthew was…
In 2019 the National Gallery produced a short prospectus for a BIM implementation project – BIM had never been used in the gallery previously and we were aware that capital projects in the coming years would be severely compromised without it. We were also aware that BIM held many possibilities for both managing maintenance of the…
Coventry University has multiple campuses in the UK and worldwide. The main campus is based in Coventry with an additional four locations in London, Scarborough and Wroclaw, Poland. Globally, it has hubs in Africa, Europe, and Asia. The university began adopting digital building information management processes in 2017 to drive efficiency in its estates’ operations….
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 between staff and prisoners, it came with its own set of complex information requirements. Main contractor Kier, working for the Ministry of Justice, identified that utilising a…
The nima Virtual Conference 2023 is taking place on the new date of Thursday 2 November, in an all-new 3D environment, built to allow our audience to engage, connect and learn in an energising virtual space. At nima our ultimate vision is a thriving and sustainable built and natural environment, transformed by exploiting purpose-driven data….
