How the BIMBO man was born.

Birth of BIMBO MAN

The BIM Person – this is a story to be told.  It was in the year of our Lord twenty o five or star date 062005, can’t exactly recall, anyway, this was when we all received an email which was defiant and so out there that it took us all by surprise and little time to comprehend.  The leaders of our organisation, wanted to be the first in developing the access to all our clients, big and small, by providing solutions for buildings, infrastructure and more in 3D, they called themselves the visionaries.  The email expressed “… as a company we are now going to buy in to modelling before others in our industry.  We are going to be the first.  We want a champion to head up this vision……bla bla….”.  No one raised their hand, so the champion was volunteered in.

This person needed a title.  It had to be person with responsibility. Since BIM was a new emerging science related to 3D modelling, it was only natural to have this acronym in the title.  The architects of acronyms went to work and a few days later the BIMBO manager was born. BIMBO = Buying Into Modelling Before Others, this eventually changed to Building Information Modelling Before Others, but the title has stuck.  So here goes from the BIMBO man.  Why me? Having come from the aerospace, oil & gas and telecom industries where disruptive change was almost ordinary and moreover the concept of 3D modelling and rapid prototyping of components to form assemblies to create the final product was the norm; the rollout of this new BIM stuff landed in my lap.  Lesson to all – be careful what we put on our CVs.

The vision was handed down – this was now officially called BIMBO.