What if the biggest data problem in digital construction isn’t lack of data, but waste? This session challenges the industry’s habit of creating single-use data and makes the case for a circular data economy. Using DAMA principles and practical examples, discover how designing data for reuse unlocks analytics, AI, and long-term asset value.

The Passivhaus Standard acts as a golden thread that integrates and sustains quality information management (QIM) across the lifecycle of high-performance buildings. Rooted in rigorous performance criteria for energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and airtightness, Passivhaus certification requires a structured and transparent approach to data collection, validation, and documentation from design through construction and post-occupancy verification. Our panellists deliver both large and complex and small and social projects – proof that the Passivhaus Standard works at all scales.

Our solution automates traditional, manual review processes, reducing human error and improving efficiency. By structuring your Common Data Environment (CDE) to align with contract and HRB regulations, we ensure the client retains ownership and control.

In Design and Build (D&B) contracts, we automate approval workflows for clients, main contractors, sub-consultants, and sub-contractors. Our system, aligned with ISO 19650 standards, organises project information into WIP, Shared, Published, and Archive folders, ensuring a smooth flow from quality assurance (QA) to publication.

Key automation features include Series (for organising and sharing files) and Work Packages (for defined project deliverables). Using Autodesk’s Auto-Trigger feature, files undergo automated QA checks, and upon review, are automatically moved to the Published folder, ready for the main contractor team.

This innovative approach streamlines traditionally manual processes, ensuring faster, more accurate reviews and better control throughout the project.

COBie has played a significant role in standardising asset information handover, but its one-size-fits-all approach has increasingly resulted in waste, misinterpretation, and poor long-term asset value – it is time for something new.

buildingSMART’s new Asset Operations Handover (AOH) framework represents a fundamental shift – giving us a use-case-driven, modular, and up-to-date approach which is now fully inclusive of infrastructure as well as buildings!

This session explores how AOH effectively replaces the need for COBie, not by redefining what information is needed, but by changing how and why that information is specified, produced, validated, and exchanged. It will examine how recent work on AOH addresses long-standing industry issues.

The session is aimed at asset owners, clients, digital leads, and information managers seeking a scalable, interoperable, and future-proof alternative to COBie that supports real operational outcomes rather than compliance-driven data exchanges.

Since 2019, the Information Management Initiative (IMI) Framework has provided the standards, guidance, and resources which support the UK’s implementation of information management using building information modelling (BIM). This framework is expected to significantly change following the revision of ISO 19650. During this session, our speakers will introduce the IMI Framework, outline its content, and provide an overview of the recent and planned changes to ensure the IMI Framework continues to capture good practice to support the UK following the revision of ISO 19650. If you do information management/BIM as part of your role, and are interested in seeing what is happening to the UK’s approach, come listen in!

If information management is important to you, find out what nima is doing to build a community of voices that will be louder than the sum of its parts.

The digital skills gap is slowing technology adoption across the AECO and manufacturing industries and traditional training methods are no longer enough.

In this session, discover how leading firms are using AI-powered training to accelerate software adoption, validate project-ready teams, and turn internal data into scalable institutional knowledge. Drawing on industry research and real-world strategies, we’ll explore how “just-in-time, just-enough, and just-for-me” learning can be embedded directly into your corporate ecosystem.

You’ll leave with practical frameworks to close skills gaps, increase ROI on technology investments, and build a workforce ready to keep pace with digital transformation.

The UK has built world-leading strength in digital construction and whole-life information management; but global demand is accelerating faster than ever.

In this joint CPC and nima session, discover how the UK can turn its standards leadership, professional expertise and digital innovation ecosystem into a powerful international export advantage. Hear the latest insights from the Digital Whole-Life UK Capability and Export Opportunity work, and learn how coordinated action across industry and government can secure the UK’s position as the global partner of choice for lifecycle-driven, data-led asset performance.

Discover how modern PMOs are transforming project delivery through digital tools and data-driven decision-making.

This session reveals practical strategies to turn information into insight, anticipate risks before they arise, and drive measurable outcomes across complex projects.

Attendees will leave with actionable frameworks to harness digital technology, strengthen governance, and lead teams with confidence in an increasingly connected construction environment.

Project Colin tackles one of the industry’s biggest blind spots: documents. Despite all the talk of digital transformation, we’re still held back by shaky information foundations and a stubbornly paper-based mindset.

This session takes a fresh, honest look at documents and asks some deceptively simple questions: what if we focused on content rather than titles? What if documentation followed a consistent naming logic and breakdown? And what if documents were treated not as information inputs, but as purposeful outputs – presentations of information designed to meet real use cases?

We’ll explore how understanding purpose and information requirements can reshape delivery planning and transform how documents are broken down, named, structured, and reused. By applying consistent syntax and repeatable patterns, duplication and overlap can be significantly reduced. We’ll also show how a smarter use of the common data environment (CDE) allows information to be grouped flexibly, assembling outputs like O&M manuals and health and safety files without recreating content each time.

Let’s stop patching cracks and start building better information foundations.

GenAI and agentic AI are being implemented at pace across the industry. Yet we see headlines of AI hallucinations, copyright risks and confidentiality breaches. How is your organisation managing these risks? Do you know what is in your contracts about AI? In this session, a leading legal specialist will provide practical overviews and suggestions on mitigating the common issues and discuss what the near future looks like in this area.

Canada’s Ontario Line became a proving ground for introducing ISO 19650 and modern digital ways of working where they weren’t the norm. Instead of leading with tools, we led with change: contract-anchored requirements, robust automations, bespoke configurations, and a steady rhythm of training and communication. These led to seamless project delivery, enhanced trust in the process and winning at the Bentley Going Digital Awards.

This session shares that change journey, and the strategy that underpinned it.

Artificial intelligence is redefining how work gets done across AECO and manufacturing. But history shows that technology alone does not create progress. The organisations that thrive are the ones that learn fastest.

In the AI renaissance, discover how AI can elevate human ability rather than replace it. Drawing lessons from past technological shifts such as CAD and BIM adoption, this session explores how structured learning, workflow integration, and effective change management turn AI from a disruptive force into a competitive advantage.

You will walk away with practical strategies to close the learning divide, accelerate adoption, and position your workforce to thrive in the new industrial revolution.

The future belongs to organisations that compete on speed of learning.

Learn how global data centre developer Digital Realty cut CDE bloat, eliminated duplication, simplified structure, and rebuilt confidence by instructing RLB Digital to design for behaviour, not features. This session shows how a lean, metadata-led CDE can reduce friction, improve adoption and prepare organisations for AI without buying new platforms.

In 2011 the Government Construction Strategy set a deadline of 2016 for publicly procured projects to be all public projects to be “fully collaborative 3D BIM (with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic)”. It’s now 2026 and things have certainly changed. But you know what they say – the more things change the more they stay the same.

Nigel Davies, Director at Evolve Consultancy, and Craig Hardingham, Digital Technical Director at Sweco, will take you on a journey through the last 10 years since the UK BIM mandate took effect.

It just so happens that Craig is exactly 10 years younger than Nigel and is the same age now as Nigel was in 2016. So what was happening ten years ago, back in Nigel’s youth? What were people trying to understand? What were the key topics of conferences of the day? What were the industry experts telling you? But more importantly, what have we learnt in the last 10 years? How has the industry improved? Has it improved?

Grab a coffee, sit back, and join us on a trip back in time to when Trump was President (!) and Level 2 BIM was BIM. Together, Craig and Nigel will look at how the focus has changed and asking whether we’ve been successful. Can we demonstrate a decade of development? Or have we merely endured ten years of tribulation? If we were a business, what decision would we make on future investment based on past performance?

Are you ready to unlock the power of AI without risking your data or your budget?

Many construction firms are priced out of enterprise AI or terrified of uploading sensitive IP to public cloud servers. In this session, Mohsen Heidari (Deetu Consulting) unveils the blueprint for “sovereign AI” – a practical framework for running secure, internal AI models entirely within your own infrastructure.

Discover how to deploy GDPR-compliant tools for contract analysis and risk prediction that operate offline and off-grid. Stop renting intelligence; come and learn how to build your own.

Attend this lively panel session, with 3 panellists who are nima organisational members, to find out why organisational commitment is essential to driving real progress in information management.

Learn why sector-wide improvement depends on organisations stepping up, not just individuals. Learn how organisational membership of nima and participation in the IMI Initiative create tangible value and also hear about practical steps organisations can take now to move from intention to action.

Geometry alone isn’t enough! Discover why digital models fail in fabrication and how embedding tolerances, constraints and manufacturing intelligence can break the costly redraw cycle. From design to production, make your models truly buildable.

How usable is your building’s documentation, really?

How many problems is it causing you across projects, engineering, and facilities?

I’m a consultant specialising in ‘sorting out’ building documentation archives and ‘fixing’ unruly modern O&Ms, and I’ll be using this session to talk through some mini case studies of the approaches I’ve taken to helping clients with documentation issues of varying sizes and complexities. I’ll be focusing on practical considerations, working with what you’ve got, scaleable solutions that aren’t software-specific, and generally giving you ideas on how to tackle your own particular documentation challenges.

The construction industry has more technology than ever before, but is it delivering insights and value? Join industry leaders as they challenge the “more tech is better” mindset and unpack the reality of digital overload. Discover how organisations can simplify their tech ecosystems, cut redundancy, and build a smarter, value-driven approach to digital transformation.