See Metric Today, January-February 2005 issue, starting on page 1,
regarding Robert Bullard, a Florida engineer who challenged the local
officials when he was blocked from submitting his house construction
plans in SI.
Remek Kocz wrote:
I recently spoke to a Canadian who was a seasonal construction
worker. He said that more and more architects in Canada were drawing
up the plans in metric, much to the chagrin of the builders who only
worked in imperial. Not an efficient way to do things, but a step in
the right direction. From what I've seen on a construction site,
outside of a few exceptions (drywall sizes, stud spacings) houses
could easily be built using metric specifications and metric only
measuring tapes.
Metric Today, a few years back, had an article about a foreign-born
architect who insisted on doing his design in metric, saying that he
was 10-15% more efficient this way, as opposed to doing things in
imperial. 10-15% efficiency gains are an easy sell in the corporate
world.
