What is taught, what is used—and what sits between them.
Education opens possibilities. Organisations reveal where they take hold.
Education × Practice
Two perspectives,
one lifecycle.
The available evidence for Canada shows part of the picture. Missing measures are left open.
Alongside that curriculum, organisations describe where they use BIM. Reading both profiles raises a useful question: do their areas of emphasis resemble one another?
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Compare the activities. Each point describes one lifecycle activity.
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Keep the perspectives distinct. Teaching presence and organisational use measure different things.
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Check the sample size. Inspect the response counts before interpreting a contrast.
Activities taught and used
Canada
Content taught in education · BIM used by organisations
Taught · ELUsed · OAShare of respondents
Select a pair for question bases. Lines connect activities, not time.
A different place, a different profile
Choose a country
Clockwise from top: Capture, Plan, Simulate, Construct, Operate. Every profile uses a 0–100% scale; open shapes indicate missing evidence.
Available. But a good fit?
A course can exist without meeting every organisation’s needs. Two questions approach training from opposite sides.
Canada · separate survey samples. Availability and suitability can tell different stories.
And the policy perspective?
Guidance and mandates offer another lens on organisational practice.
