buildingSMART International Professional Certification has been launched

buildingSMART International Professional Certification has been launched

ByShane

The ‘buildingSMART International Professional Certification’ has been launched, allowing individuals to gain certification through globally recognised and trusted organisation. It enables learning organisations to educate people according to a recognised global learning framework. It is a proof of competence for professionals working with Information Management using BIM. Qualified and Certified professionals can demonstrate their knowledge is…

Where Change Matters

Where Change Matters

ByShane

Chair of nima and co-chair of the UK BIM Framework Strategy Group Dr Anne Kemp OBE talks about change and where it matters. If nima is to fulfil its vision, it needs to provide the means for a coming together of people and organisations wanting help – with this being the larger proportion of our energy and…

ZERO Construct joins nima Affiliates programme

ZERO Construct joins nima Affiliates programme

ByShane

Nima is delighted to announce a formal affiliation with ZERO Construct. ZERO Construct has become the latest membership organisation to join the nima Affiliates.  Their mission is to create a new construction industry culture that continuously measures and manages carbon through all project stages.  Nima fully supports the aims of ZERO Construct and we are…

BIM to IM

BIM to IM

ByShane

With the intent of engaging a much wider audience, Casey Rutland and Fiona Moore explain the shift in focus and subtle language changes in how we describe ‘why’ people involved in delivering and managing assets in the built and natural environment should implement BIM. Click here to read the full paper.

Manufacturers Product Data: A Plain Language Guide
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Manufacturers Product Data: A Plain Language Guide

ByShane

Manufacturers produce a significant part of the information required to bring about a safer construction industry; but this information is currently not structured or shared in a consistent way. If industry is to meet the challenges of a digital future, avoid a race to the bottom and respond to the requirements of a new building…

UK BIM Alliance rebrands as ‘nima’

UK BIM Alliance rebrands as ‘nima’

ByShane

Name change reflects shift in focus of UK government and industry discussion about digital transformation in the built environment since 2016. (04 October 2022 – London) – The UK BIM Alliance, the independent, not-for-profit organisation established in 2016 to champion implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in the UK, is rebranding as ‘nima’. The name,…

Delivering low-carbon education buildings

Delivering low-carbon education buildings

ByShane

Bond Bryan Digital has been working with the Department for Education and others to investigate the delivery of ultra-low carbon building standards for educational establishments. The firm has taken a fresh look at how BIM and best-practice information management might be applied to support carbon assessment and determine the cost uplift associated with designing these…

Making IFC ‘business as usual’

Making IFC ‘business as usual’

ByShane

Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in a generation, is being delivered using 3D, clash-free, buildable models. Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) have become business-as-usual and a highly capable standard for use across the whole Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. “For us, IFC is not just something…

Winfield Rock Report
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Winfield Rock Report

ByShane

The aim of this report is not to set out or repeat discussions on the appropriate BIM contractual framework or provide a detailed analysis of this standard form contracts, which have already been canvassed comprehensively elsewhere.  Rather, the aim of this report is to consider the present understand of BIM legal and contractual issues among…