If I remember correctly, when many US federal projects were being built 10 – 15
years ago in metric units, all the scare stories about mistakes and higher
costs proved to be false (the USMA should have all this documented somewhere).
On this courthouse project, I suspect other reasons are to
One day the US will truly realise the value of the independent quantity
surveyor – used everywhere in the world EXCEPT the US. Go figure
John F-L (retired QS).
From: John M. Steele
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:19 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:52827] RE: Thomas F. Eagleton
Notice that none of the blog comments are of the I don't wanna! type that
we usually see in the US when metric is brought up. People just assume
that the changeover is inevitable, mandated by law, and they'll have to get
used to it. We have a completely different attitude here, hence the
problem
