A governance-first platform
for UK construction.
Genera CIMS is a planned cloud platform that will embed governance, compliance, and quality into every project decision — turning the rules written in standards into controls enforced automatically in software.
The Foundation Is Already Written
The Project Assurance Framework Manual (PAFM) — 430 pages, aligned to PMBOK® 8, ISO 19650, CDM 2015, the Building Safety Act 2022, and the full stack of UK construction legislation — defines exactly how the platform will operate, which workflows it will enforce, and what evidence it will capture.
CIMS is the software implementation of that framework. The concepts are not speculative. The architecture is not being invented from scratch. The platform is the codification of a practitioner's framework that already exists in full.
What CIMS Is Being Designed to Do
ISO 19650 Common Data Environment
A CDE aligned to ISO 19650-1 to -5, with enforced filename conventions, state transitions, and a combined Uniclass 2015 + IFC classification layer validated at every intake.
Three-Tier Governance
Strategic, Management, and Delivery layers — with role-based approval gates, decision rights, and an immutable audit trail across every project decision.
The Golden Thread
For higher-risk buildings under the Building Safety Act, validated from Gateway 2 submission through handover and into occupation. Continuous, not patched.
Every PMBOK® 8 Domain
End-to-end workflows for Governance, Scope, Schedule, Finance, Stakeholders, Resources, and Risk — integrated rather than siloed.
Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental
Integrated execution via Genera QA & HS&E — the on-site delivery companion, usable standalone or as the CIMS delivery module.
Lean Construction, Built In
Last Planner, Takt planning, Kaizen, Gemba walks, and 5S as native tooling — built in, not bolted on.
Compliance by Design
UK GDPR, Modern Slavery Act, Bribery Act, Equality Act, Procurement Act 2023, RIDDOR — all enforced through the platform, not policed by spreadsheet. Compliance becomes a by-product of delivery, not a parallel workstream.
This is the design principle: the right thing is also the easiest thing.
Concept Preview — ISO 19650 Filename Validation
This is not a live product. It is an illustrative rendering of how one piece of CIMS is planned to behave: the 12-point validation every file must pass before entering a CIMS Common Data Environment. Filename structure, field validity, revision sequence, suitability state transitions, Uniclass classification, IFC entity types.
The rendering is interactive so you can get a feel for the intended behaviour. Type a filename and watch the checks run, or try one of the example buttons to see a pass, a warning, and a hard fail. No files are being processed, no data is being stored, and no CDE exists behind the page.
Open the Concept Preview
The preview runs in a separate window so it can be shared as a standalone link with colleagues, clients, or procurement reviewers.
Who CIMS Is For
- Clients commissioning UK construction projects
- Principal contractors delivering under CDM 2015
- Principal designers managing design-stage assurance
- PMOs running multi-project portfolios
- Developers running HRB programmes under the Building Safety Act
- Tier 1 contractors needing a single source of truth
- Supply chains evidencing compliance at every step
- Public-sector clients procuring under the Procurement Act 2023
Project size range: £500k fit-outs through £50m+ new-builds, including higher-risk building programmes.
Why It Matters
Construction projects fail for knowable reasons: unclear accountability, lost information, missed compliance gates, silent risk. CIMS is being designed to make those failures structurally harder — by making the right thing also the easiest thing.
Every action has an owner. Every decision has an audit trail. Every standard has a control. Every project leaves behind a dataset that can prove, years later, exactly what happened and why.
Where We Are
The framework is complete. The architecture is defined. The first modules — starting with the ISO 19650 Common Data Environment — are on the roadmap. The concept preview on this page is an illustrative rendering of how CIMS is planned to feel in day-to-day use.
In parallel, the consulting practice applies the same framework directly to live projects today.