Acronyms and Industry Terms of the Construction Industry Sometimes architects speak their own “archispeak,” using words like WELL, LEED, BIM, built environment, biophilia, and ROM. The other day we used Google to figure out what ROM meant from an architect’s standpoint and then translated the literal meaning from Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) to the

Today’s fast pace world expects everything right now, and the construction industry is part of this demand. Amazon adds to this mindset with its same-day shipping. I call this expectation of thinking “everything can be had in your hands at your command,” or the “Amazon Now Effect.” Seemingly, this effect finds a way into the