[USMA:36502] Re: Contractors resisting metrication

[G Stanley Doore]

Title: Re: [USMA:36480] Re: Contractors resisting metrication

A few years ago when Montgomery County, MD was rewriting it's sign codes, I tried, as a member of a committee,  to get them to use metric in millimetres for maximum sign sizes rationalized.  The change would have been minimal ( a few millimetres) and it would have allowed vendors to use materials in either standard English sizes or metric sizes.  The government here refused.   Regards,  Stan Doore   ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: [USMA:36482] Re: Contractors resisting metrication Dear Mike, Thanks for this reference. It looks like really useful stuff. I am especially interested in the fact that NIBS has come down so strongly in favor of the millimetre rather than the centimetre! Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216 Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com On 7/04/06 5:53 AM, "Mike Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just found this link to a PowerPoint presentation that might help contractors in  New York ease their transition  http://www.nibs.org/MetricShow/MSS2000.ppt#286,31,FACTS  <http://www.nibs.org/MetricShow/MSS2000.ppt#286,31,FACTS> I had no idea that the US building industry had converted or was converting so extensively. I know building codes are still in feet and the general workers work in feet and inches but with them buying so much more SI products conversion seems pretty likely whether the New York contractors want to or not . Mike