Gordon Mitchell appointed nima vice chair

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 for Digital, Data and Technology in Facilities Management with ISO TC267 WG6 across a 54-country membership and chairs the British Standards Institute mirror panel. He also has roles with CEN348 as well as liaison roles with ISO TC59 SC13 (ISO 19650 etc) and JTC 1 SC 42 (Artificial intelligence) and is chair of the technology special interest group of the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM).

As co-founder of Wholus, he seeks to close the data gap between design, build, and operations — transforming facilities management into a strategic value engine that delivers measurable ROI, Net Zero progress and human-centred results.

Gordon is a long-standing nima volunteer. He was a member of the working group that produced the Interoperability Code of Practice for Technology Providers (published in April 2023), and has spoken both in-person and virtually at several nima events. He says:

“As a volunteer-led, virtual organisation, nima is heavily dependent upon its ‘back office’ to engage with both existing communities and new audiences. As the organisation looks to capitalise upon the growing interest in the Information Management Initiative, and with ISO 19650 being revised, I will be working with my fellow vice chairs and volunteers to maintain an efficient and cost-effective platform for all of our activities. We are looking not only to empower our own capability to support our community but also to leverage this to fundamentally support our work to drive the industry and societal impacts that our sector is clearly capable of and can aspire to deliver.”