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Inspiring. Influencing. Connecting. Supporting. Transforming.
Nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) is a not-for-profit, volunteer-led virtual organisation. It promotes information management best practices, helping to support digital transformation across the built and managed environment.
Our ultimate vision is a thriving and sustainable built and natural environment transformed by exploiting purpose-driven data. As trusted advisors, we facilitate the implementation and integration of practical information management practices across our built and environmental infrastructure.
Our mission is to inspire, influence, connect and support everyone active in a transformed built and managed environment, and to enable everyone to better manage information vital to the needs of our times.
With trusted data, great things happen.
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Paul French wins nima Spring Virtual Conference prize
Paul French, head of digital construction at Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions is the lucky recipient of a £150 technology voucher from nima. Paul successfully completed the treasure hunt at nima’s Spring Virtual Conference 2024 on 18…
Cautious welcome for technology vendors’ interoperability agreement
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…
Vice Chair changes at nima
A message from nima Chair Anne Kemp: We have a few changes to announce concerning our Vice Chairs and NEDs. I am pleased to announce that Casey Rutland has agreed to become a Non-Executive Director…
Stephen Holmes receives nima honour
Stephen Holmes, a volunteer who has contributed extensively to nima since it was originally founded as the UK BIM Alliance in 2016, was announced as the inaugural winner of the nima Outstanding Contribution Award. The…
Making IFC ‘business as usual’
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…
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Did you know the buildingSMART UK and Ireland chapter has been powered by nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) since 2017? bSUKI is the UK and Ireland Chapter of buildingSMART International.
The project activities of nima and bSUKI are now more visible, integrated and accessible to you. We are responsible for gathering industry requirements and representing the UK and Ireland’s needs at international level. When standards are being developed, we help to ensure these needs are catered for.