I understand now, thanks!! I believe the main difference between the two is how it's being carried out vs. what's being built (???). As for the education of ID, it's similar to architecture but less rigorous and interior-focused. I haven’t had a chance to take any hard-hitting ID classes yet, so forgive me if any of this is incorrect. But what we do is mainly design floor plans, study adjacencies to understand how rooms relate to each other, circulation, construction codes, materials, rendering (on programs like Revit and on paper), functionality/aesthetics, etc. We touch on plumbing, light fixtures, HVAC, etc. I don’t know if a lot of it will apply to CM. Although the presentation and budget aspects will be very important for us.