On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:34:40 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) wrote: >Robert Bushnell wrote in USMA 11908 >> >>I strongly urge the APWA to recommend METRIC (SI) for all >>construction. Never concur with the use of dual units. >> >>Last year a Colorado DOT engineer told me they use inch-pound because >>contractors can not get metric drain fittings. I hope you know a way >>around this nonsense. > > >It is nonsense. A lot of the fitments of Canadian commercial buildings are >still in imperial units, even though the buildings are designed and drawn >in millimetres and metres. Those drain fittings are probably not really in >hard inches and can just as easily be expressed in millimetres. France >uses British plumbing standards. I think you mean "obsolete British plumbing standards", Joe! Chris -- UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
