Summary
Tim Aikin is a director and architect-turned-technologist based in Nottingham, UK, with over four decades of design experience and more than a decade leading software initiatives in facilities management and BIM. He designs and ships web and mobile FM applications—ranging from retail space planning and space-utilisation reporting to offline AIM audit apps—that have saved clients millions through pragmatic data capture and remediation workflows. A pioneer of early web-based project extranets and CDE concepts, he has deep expertise in COBie/IFC, product libraries, and federated validation tooling. Tim blends hands-on development with systems architecture, having built solutions that turn large, messy estate surveys into actionable BIM for PPM imports. He also led research efforts mentoring PhD candidates while commercialising the Information Channel product strategy that changed project licensing models. Colleagues know him for translating architectural workflows into robust software and for tackling interoperability challenges others avoid.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
ONC Building, ONC Building at Salfford College of Technology
Ashton-upon-Mersey Boys School
BA Hons + Diploma in Architecture, Architecture, BA Hons + Diploma in Architecture, Architecture at Manchester Polytechnic School of Architecture