Change is needed to improve information management practices in the water sector, says Clare Taylor, chair of the 2,000-strong practitioners network BIM4Water in a wide-ranging major interview in BIMplus (26 February 2025). And she says the recently launched nima/CLC-backed Information Management Initiative (IMI) could provide the necessary disruption to improve digital maturity across the sector….
The National Cyber-Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) ecosystem programme has published a series of reports summarising recommendations from workshops held in 2024 (read Digital Twin Hub news). The reports cover: People involved with nima and the GIIG (including Dan Rossiter of BSI, and nima vice-chair Paul Wilkinson) attended some of the workshops, with the GIIG’s 2023 interoperability…
A project undertaken by the GIIG (nima’s not-for-profit consultancy arm) for the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has been shortlisted for an award. The GIIG focuses on practical ways to enable efficient information flows in construction and asset management. It helps organisations to create and manage reliable information that will remain findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR)….
To help manage the growing volume of work involved in running nima, including its ongoing input to the refreshed approach to the Information Management Mandate, the volunteer-led, virtual organisation has recruited three new vice chairs. It has also introduced an additional non-executive director. Following a call for expressions of interest from nima chair Anne Kemp…
In BIM+ (see full 9 May 2024 article: Cautious welcome for Autodesk and Nemetschek interoperability deal), the GIIG (part of nima) has given a cautious welcome to the recent announcement by Autodesk and Nemetschek (both are nima patrons) that the two software vendors have entered an interoperability agreement. Many digital construction professionals had welcomed the…
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…
The interoperability-focused work of the GIIG will be showcased at Digital First, the official Crown Commercial Service technology conference conference, in Manchester on 21 June 2023. The event’s focus is on “Supporting the next generation of public services”, bringing together technology and technology procurement professionals from across government and the wider public sector to showcase best…
Delivering Valuable Data: An interoperability code of practice for technologies in the built and managed environment has been launched at a 17 April 2024 event at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London. The code draws extensively on existing UK Government policy and guidance relating to both construction and to digital technologies. It aims to…
Reliable and appropriately secure information is the life-blood of an organisation, essential for decision-making. All too often, the technologies we use, or the ways we use them, create barriers to the exploitation of data and information in our own organisations or in sharing it with supply chain partners. Delivering Valuable Data, the interoperability code of…
