Through individual nima membership, you will be making an important commitment to improving information management in organisations and projects across the built and natural environment. You will be signing up to our core principles (reflecting those in the Information Management Initiative) which include:

• Recognise the whole life purpose of information and data: Identify the relevance and purposes of data and information to improve organisational and project outcomes. Consider an asset as both the physical structure and the data and information held to manage it.
• Upskill people in information management: Establish basic digital literacy as an organisational minimum requirement, make relevant data and information management skills part of individuals’ continual professional development, and recognise and empower ‘IM leadership’.
• Take a common, consistent and data-centric approach:  Converge on a common framework to define, procure, deliver, store and use interoperable data and information, and incorporate a data and information architecture relevant to the organisation and its collaborators.
• Establish clear data and information governance principles: Adopt clear approaches on stewardship, ethics, quality, security, interoperability, longevity, openness and integrity of data and information. Enable sharing and easy use of the right data and information at the right time and in the right structure by considering data and information independently from technology.

Individual standard membership costs just £35/year – click on Individual Membership below.
Small discounts are available for organisations wanting to purchase memberships for multiple team members – click on Bulk Membership below.

Standard membership benefits:

We aspire to develop our membership offering over the coming years with a view to potentially becoming a chartered membership body representing information management practitioners in the built and managed environment. Depending upon members’ needs (we will be polling members’ opinions), activities may include developing a body of knowledge, a code of conduct, continual professional development (CPD) activities, certification, measurement of IM capabilities, etc.

1. Note: the membership badge does not denote any official accreditation of you as an information management practitioner or as a representative of nima. Nima membership does not include membership of buildingSMART International. ↩︎
2. nima will provide a searchable facility allowing others to authenticate your nima membership. By joining nima, you consent to your name being included in its membership listing. ↩︎
3. The nima newsletter is not exclusive to members. ↩︎