{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reimagining AEC","title":"The Information Management Initiative: From a Board Commitment to Rules for Every Role","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1077,"description":"Speaking on Reimagining AEC, a podcast he owns and makes himself, Dr Sepehr Abrishami walks a hypothetical engineering consultancy, invented for teaching, through the Information Management Initiative, the industry programme led by nima and the Construction Leadership Council, and sets it beside ALEC Holdings, one of the first international contracting groups reported to have completed the Initiative's four steps. The history from the earlier BIM and information management mandates comes first, then the five layers, the organisations the Initiative touches and its four steps, from on-boarding and the Sector-Wide Directive to an Organisation-Level Mandate and the role-specific rules of the IMI Framework. A final section covers how an organisation takes part today and where the Initiative stood by mid 2026.\nChapters\n0:00 Opening: a contracting group that has completed the steps\n2:23 From government mandates to an industry initiative\n5:11 Five layers and four steps\n6:45 Committing at the top: on-boarding, the Directive and the route map\n10:39 Carrying it down: the internal mandate and the Framework rules\n13:38 Taking part, and where the Initiative stands\n15:56 Close\nAfter listening, you should be able to:\nExplain why the Information Management Initiative was set up and who leads it.\nDescribe the structure of the Initiative and the players it involves.\nDistinguish the four steps of its procedure and what each commits an organisation to.\nApply the procedure to plan how an organisation would take part.\nReferences\nBritish Standards Institution. (2018a). BS EN ISO 19650-1:2018 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM). Information management using building information modelling. Part 1: Concepts and principles. BSI.\nBritish Standards Institution. (2018b). BS EN ISO 19650-2:2018 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Fv21v67POZkKdYyEniMdPznBWql9GD9hvf5xNpkjlwA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YTYw/YzFhZTY3NDA4MTA2/NmRiOGI5MGUzY2Qz/ZjY3Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}