A new March 2026 report sets out the Construction Leadership Council‘s key priorities for 2026 and details the progress made during 2025 under each of the CLC’s four strategic pillars: building safety; net zero, resilience and circular economy; people and skills; and next generation delivery. The latter incorporates CLC’s work on digital and data, including…
A new framework aims to provide the water sector with unified, practical guidance on asset information and how companies can strengthen their data to support asset health and performance (reports Digital Construction Today). Across the UK water sector, asset health has moved firmly into the regulatory spotlight. Ageing infrastructure, rising service expectations, climate resilience pressures…
Nima’s response to a UK Government consultation on future regulation of the construction sector has stressed the need for more consistent digital standards and greater interoperability of information and data across the lifecycle of built assets. It stressed principles contained in the Information Management Initiative (IMI) – including the need to upskill people in information…
Nima chair Anne Kemp has been named as the Digital Construction Champion of the Year for 2026. The award was announced at the Digital Construction Awards dinner in London on 18 March 2026, citing her industry leadership roles with international standards as well as with nima. Justin Stanton, editor of Digital Construction Plus, read the…
As the UK body responsible to inputs to international standards, BSI has published the drafts of ISO 19650 Parts 1 and 2 for UK public comment. Proposed changes to ISO 19650 Parts 1-3 were outlined in a joint BSI/nima webinar on Tuesday 24 February (see nima news). Part 3 is expected to be available for…
Following the 2025 green paper on construction products reform (see nima news, 25 April 2025), a white paper has been published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and & Local Government (MHCLG), setting out the UK government’s plans, including requirements relating to digitalisation of product information. The MHCLG says it will require “industry and government…
Nima has produced a position paper on artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to provide clear, relevant, objective guidance on the use of AI, and to encourage appropriate habits and behaviours. The paper – produced by nima’s think tank, the GIIG – is intended for information managers, asset managers, technologists and product specifiers in the built environment….
Gordon Mitchell has become a nima vice chair with particular responsibility for managing nima’s IT operations. A strong FM and IT industry background Gordon has been heavily involved in the international movement towards sustainable and digitally intelligent whole-life asset and building stock management while also pioneering environmental and socially responsible places and spaces. He is convener…
Nima is sponsoring the “digital construction Oscar” for the Digital Team of the Year in this year’s Digital Construction Awards, seeing a synergy with the ongoing Information Management Initiative (IMI – read nima’s November 2025 news). Brief accounts of the finalists’ achievements have now been published in the success stories section of nima’s website. Digital Team of the…
Proposed changes to ISO 19650 1-3 were outlined in a joint BSI/nima webinar on Tuesday 24 February. Over 900 attendees at the online briefing were told the draft information standard (DIS) for parts 1 and 2 should be available for review and comment from 10 March 2026, with Part 3 available around the start of…
