Stop saying BIM Model!

I had this pointed out to me by Carl Collins at Arup Associates and now I cannot unsee it. When we say "BIM", anyone with a clue is saying Building Information Modelling, or Building Information Model. Occassionally, and let us be clear, only to muddy the waters, people mean Building Information Management or Maintenance which is unhelpful at best. So when you are saying BIM Model, you are saying Building Information Model Model. It's a bit like saying PIN Number or the River Avon. I can forgive, if not forget, so long as you know that you're doing it.

It's a bit like the how many dimensions that exist. Physicists suspect more, but have only discovered four. We've left them in our wake with 11 dimensions. If as I suspect, these are not intended to be actual dimensions, then pray tell what is 1D and 2D BIM? ... Anyway...

MIT Cityscope, technology enabled stakeholder engagement

Engaging with stakeholders such as politicians, developers and the community can commonly be a challenging process. Taking steps to ensure that these stakeholders can truly grasp exactly what development looks like, what its effects would be and critically how malleable these designs are in the early stages is I think a real oppotunity for, and I hate this word usually, the deomcratisation of development. 

There's been a lot of work done along the lines of projectors and the Kinect (other motion sensing input devices are available). They use RFID tags as well. Great stuff. 

Projectors and 3D Models can be combined to make some really engaging scenes

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