Top 7 COBie Companies in Nottingham (2026)

Anyone who’s handed over a completed building only to watch the facilities team struggle with incomplete or messy asset data knows why COBie exists in the first place. It’s meant to solve a pretty basic problem: getting structured, usable information about a building’s systems and components into the hands of the people who’ll actually run the place once construction wraps up. Nottingham has its share of firms doing this work well, some focused specifically on BIM and data delivery, others folding COBie into a broader mechanical and electrical or architectural service.

This list covers companies working across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands that handle COBie data, BIM coordination, and the asset information side of construction projects. Some specialize narrowly in digital modeling and data structuring, while others bring COBie expertise as part of a wider design or engineering practice. Either way, the goal for all of them is the same: making sure a building’s data holds up long after the scaffolding comes down.

2. Activeplan

Activeplan operates out of Nottingham and focuses on asset data management for building projects, linking models, drawings, schedules, and O&M information into a system that stays usable well past a project’s completion date. The company built its platform around what it calls “golden threads” of project information, aiming to keep records accurate without constant manual rework.

The platform includes webforms and data templates for collecting information from supply chains, automated checks that flag compliance issues early, and centralized storage built to support building safety cases on higher risk buildings. Activeplan’s coordinated COBie data model sits at the center of this, letting asset information move from source through to handover and into FM systems without getting stuck in disconnected spreadsheets along the way.

Key Highlights:

• Spatial model links multiple sources
• Automated compliance checking tools
• Integrated COBie data model
• Supports building safety case prep

Services:

• COBie data modeling and coordination
• Asset data management platform
• Webform based information capture
• Template driven data structuring
• Compliance automation for handover

3. Franklin Ellis

Franklin Ellis has been working out of Nottingham’s Ropewalk area, covering architecture across education, residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors. The staff trained in BIM workflows and its own documented procedures for running projects through ISO 19650.

The firm has experience producing COBie and IFC data on larger developments, and its architectural staff are BIM trained across the board, which lets it take on roles like Model Manager or Information Manager depending on what a project calls for. Franklin Ellis also holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accreditations alongside its BIM certification, covering quality management and environmental practice.

Key Highlights:

• ISO 19650 certified BIM workflows
• Experience producing COBie and IFC data
• ISO 9001 and 14001 accredited

Services:

• COBie and IFC data production
• Architectural design and BIM modeling
• BIM management and coordination
• Model Manager and Information Manager roles
• Quality and environmental compliance consulting

4. Anderson Green

Anderson Green has run its building services consultancy from Basford in Nottingham, covering mechanical and electrical design, cost consultancy, and BIM work. The company is BRE BIM accredited, with Level 2 BIM certified practitioners leading its Revit and BIM teams.

Anderson Green’s BIM consultancy covers model management audits, federation, clash detection, and general BIM and COBie process management, alongside the M&E design work that makes up most of its project involvement. The firm also runs a dedicated M&E cost consultancy service, using an in-house cost database to support projects from early cost plan assessments through to construction stage valuations.

Key Highlights:

• BRE BIM accredited organisation
• Level 2 BIM certified practitioners
• Handles COBie process management
• In-house M&E cost consultancy

Services:

• BIM and COBie process management
• Mechanical and electrical design
• Model management and clash detection
• M&E cost consultancy
• Energy and sustainability consulting

5. BIMArc

BIMArc is a BIM consultancy that supports construction teams with digital information management, BIM implementation, and structured data delivery for the built environment. The company works with project teams that need better coordination between design models, construction information, and facility management requirements.

Within its BIM services, BIMArc highlights COBie and IFC exports as part of its digital delivery capabilities. The company helps transform BIM model information into structured formats used for project handover and asset management. It also supports BIM workflows through model reviews, BIM standards development, and implementation guidance. These services help ensure that project information is prepared consistently before it is transferred into operational systems such as CAFM platforms.

Key Highlights:

• Remote BIM consultancy supporting UK and international projects
• Explicit COBie and IFC export services
• Supports BIM data preparation for handover
• Focuses on structured information management
• Provides BIM implementation and coordination support

Services:

• COBie data exports and BIM handover support
• IFC model exports
• BIM model reviews and audits
• BIM standards and implementation support
• Revit and digital construction workflows
• CAFM-ready asset information preparation

6. Symetri

Symetri is one of the UK’s Autodesk partners and a long-established BIM consultancy supporting architects, engineers, contractors, and asset owners. Alongside Autodesk software implementation, the company provides BIM consultancy, information management, digital transformation, and training services for construction teams adopting ISO 19650 workflows.

The company has extensive experience helping organisations develop BIM standards, improve information management processes, and prepare structured project data for handover. It also provides consultancy around asset information, Common Data Environments, and digital delivery, making it a strong choice for projects requiring COBie-compliant information exchange.

Key Highlights:

• Autodesk Platinum Partner
• BIM consultancy and digital transformation specialist
• Supports ISO 19650 information management
• Asset information and digital delivery expertise
• Works with architecture, engineering and construction firms

Services:

• BIM consultancy
• Information management
• ISO 19650 implementation
• Common Data Environment (CDE) support
• Asset information management
• Autodesk Revit consulting and training
• Digital project delivery

7. Glider

Glider is a UK digital information management company specialising in asset information, BIM consultancy, and digital handover for the built environment. The company works with contractors, consultants, asset owners, and facilities management teams to ensure building information remains structured, accurate, and usable throughout the entire asset lifecycle.

A key part of Glider’s offering is its dedicated COBie support, helping project teams capture, validate, and exchange asset data throughout the design and construction phases before handover. Alongside COBie, the company provides BIM management, Common Data Environment (CDE) solutions, digital handover services, and Asset Information Management (AIM), helping organisations deliver compliant information for facility management and long-term building operations. Its gliderbim platform supports openBIM formats including COBie and IFC, allowing teams to validate, manage, and exchange structured asset information in a single environment.

Key Highlights:

• Dedicated COBie and digital handover specialists
• Asset Information Management (AIM) consultancy
• Supports IFC, COBie, and ISO 19650 workflows
• Provides Common Data Environment (CDE) solutions
• Works across the full building asset lifecycle

Services:

• COBie data management and support
• Digital handover and O&M information management
• BIM management and coordination
• Asset Information Management (AIM)
• Common Data Environment (CDE) implementation
• IFC data exchange and validation
• Digital twin and smart building consultancy

Conclusion

COBie only holds up if the person receiving the data years later actually has a reason to open it, and that’s easy to lose sight of when a project is still mid-construction and handover feels a long way off. Looking across the firms doing this work in Nottingham, very few of them set out purely to be BIM specialists. Most fold COBie and asset data into a broader architecture, M&E, or engineering practice that was already running for other reasons, which tends to mean the data gets built up gradually through a project rather than assembled at the last minute before handover.

Software and certifications get mentioned a lot in this space, and they’re worth checking, but they don’t say much about whether a firm actually understands what a facilities team needs five years down the line. A better question to ask directly is how a company has handled handover on a past project, and what happened to that data once the building was occupied and nobody from the original team was still involved.