Dear All,
I found this fascinating set of references at
http://www.osun.org/metrication-doc.html
I quote from the fourth item 'Volume 2, Issue 3 May-June 1993':
$10+ BILLION IN METRIC
So much federal metric work is under way that es timating the total
has become difficult. Virtually all agencies have some metric
projects in the design stage or beyond. More and more are moving
aggressively as they find that metrication is readily achievable.
- The Army Corps of Engineers expects to have all of its Guidespecs
converted by this fall and has formed a Senior Executive Service
committee to implement metric in all Corps programs. A number of
metric pilot projects are under way and many more are in planning.
- All new GSA design work will be in metric after this October. The
agency recently completed construc tion of a metric-based pilot
project in Denver. It came in under budget and there were no
appreciable metric-related problems in either the design or
construction stages.
- The Federal Highway Administration is main taining its schedule for
the metrication of highway construc tion by October 1996. States are
preparing for the change to metric now, and many have pilot projects
under way. Annual federal highway outlays are about $16 billion;
these funds will stimulate billions more in state and local metric
construction dollars.
- Other federal agencies hard at work on conversion include the Air
Force, the Navy, NASA, the Smith sonian Institution, and the
Departments of Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services,
Com merce, Interior, and Agriculture.
Virtually all federal construc tion--about $40 billion annually--will
be designed and built in metric by late in this decade. Spurred by
federal grant pro grams, state and municipal construction also may be
predom inant ly metric by that time.
The private sector is doing its share. Codes, stan dards, trade, and
professional organizations are con verting their remaining non-metric
documents and beginning to prepare their constituents for the chan ge
to metric. Product manufacturers are beginning to convert their
product literature.
You can help speed the process by promoting metric in the
organizations to which you belong. Remember, English is the
international language of business and metric is the international
language of measurement.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
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