Preservica partners with nima to become a Gold Patron - helping construction companies close the records retrieval gap
Gareth Aitken
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November 9, 2026
Patronage supports long-term preservation and retrieval of built environment information, in step with the ISO 19650 series and the Information Management Initiative.
Preservica has become a Gold Patron of nima, the not-for-profit organisation championing information management across the built and managed environment.
The patronage reflects a shared view that information management doesn't end at handover. Construction records outlive the projects that create them, and so do the obligations to retain them.
The ISO 19650 series, which added part 6 on health and safety information in 2025, is raising expectations for how information is managed across the life of built assets. The Information Management Initiative (IMI), led by nima with the support of the Construction Leadership Council, is building a common foundation for sharing information across the asset lifecycle.
Both depend on information staying available long after the people and platforms that created it have moved on. For higher-risk buildings in England, the Building Safety Act's golden thread makes this a legal requirement, not just good practice. Yet construction records commonly sit across business systems, collaboration platforms and cloud storage, none of them built to keep records usable for decades. As formats age and platforms are replaced, records filed correctly at handover can become hard to find, open or prove authentic, often just when an owner, regulator or legal team needs them.
Preservica closes this records retrieval gap. Its Active Digital Preservation platform migrates file formats as technology changes, checks integrity and keeps a full audit trail. Preserve365® brings the same capability into Microsoft 365, building on existing investment rather than replacing it.
Gareth Aitken, VP Commercial & Channel Strategy at Preservica, said:
“nima plays a vital role in raising the bar for information management across the built environment, and through the IMI and standards, it’s setting the direction for the whole industry. We’re proud to support that work as a Gold Patron. Our contribution focuses on a part of the lifecycle that’s easy to overlook: making sure records can still be retrieved, proven authentic and legally defensible decades after handover. Closing that retrieval gap is what turns good information management into a lasting asset.”
Anne Kemp, Chair, nima, said:
“We’re very pleased to welcome Preservica as a Gold Patron. Every patron brings a different perspective, and we look forward to their contribution as we continue working with the industry to treat information as a lasting asset.”
Preservica and nima will explore these themes at Digital Construction North, Manchester Central, on 18 November 2026, in the session “Can you prove it? A live vote on construction's retrieval gap and what ISO 19650-6 changed” at 12.30pm on the Information Management stage, where attendees will vote live on how ready the industry is to retrieve and prove its records, and what the latest standards mean in practice. Visitors can also find Preservica at stand C5.
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