Friday, August 26, 2011

"BIM = Construction Utopia" - a follow up to BIM in 50 words or less

Following on from the last (first!) post, I've come to the conclusion that BIM is actually an acronym for Construction Utopia! Does it really matter that people have different views on what BIM is? Aren't we all saying the same thing using different sentences and a variation on emphasis? To test this I ran the definitions through a 'Wordle'. The first results showed that even though people described different things, there were a lot of common words:
Take this one step further, and use only the 8 most common words for the Wordle, this is what you get:
Semantics rule. It seems regardless of how strongly we feel about our own definitions, in the bigger picture we are all saying (and wanting) the same thing.

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