I've been searching high and low for metric federal construction projects here in Arizona. We have two new high-profile federal buildings just completed: a visitor center at Grand Canyon National Park, and an ornate federal courthouse in Phoenix that is being hyped as the most high-tech, avant-garde courthouse in America. None of the publicity describing them in great detail has any metric figures, or any that are soft conversions of hard metric figures. I have personally measured the visitor center, tape in hand (got a lot of funny looks!) and could not find any hard-metric dimensions, even in non-modular things like sidewalks. I did find one small Forest Service picnic-ground project which, if you looked very closely at a reproduction of the original drawing, had dimensions in meters. But all the signs describing the project were wombat, the modular buildings and components were wombat, and the workers I saw were using wombat-only tapes. I suspect there is no real metric building going on anywhere in the U.S. (other than highways). I think the bureaucrats who claim otherwise have been less than honest with us.
