Estimators: help us get the names right.
OpenBEAM is working toward one shared name for every construction component, from the drawing to the takeoff to the estimate. It's early, and it only works if the people who price the work shape it.
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Every drawing set speaks its own dialect.
The same physical baseboard leaves the architect as a legend code, reaches the estimator as a guess, and reaches the trade as a phone call. Between each hop, data dies — and gets re-typed, re-guessed, re-priced.
A project-local code. Meaningless outside this drawing set.
Re-typed into a spreadsheet, meaning reconstructed by hand.
Priced from memory, confirmed by call-back. Third re-entry.
Not invented — built on what the industry already publishes.
Built on published classification standards, not an invented taxonomy.
Early. Real. Open about both.
This is not a finished standard, and we won't pretend otherwise. It's a working vocabulary being grown sample-by-sample from real drawing sets, with its open questions in public view.
- Over 200 components named so far, most still drafts.
- The vocabulary grows deterministically: a new component earns a name when a real document demands it — no speculative taxonomy.
Review the vocabulary with us.
A few minutes per item, whenever you like, by text or a voice note. We wrote down exactly what we need.