Federal building construction has been metric since the 90's and guides were established for it. Granted these are more for office buildings, but any guidelines for home construction should at least consider the Federal standards for metric construction. A ggogle search turned up a few references, I am sure there are a lot more which are published standards, sold only on a fee-basis. http://www.wbdg.org/ccb/VA/VAMETRIC/guide.pdf
http://www.ofeo.si.edu/ae_center/docs/gsa%20metric%20design%20guidelines.pdf http://transition.usaid.gov/policy/ads/300/metricproducts.pdf ________________________________ From: Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, January 30, 2013 5:01:48 PM Subject: [USMA:52295] Re: Metric Home Doesn't Australia use 400 mm on center for the studs, and don't they use 1200 mm x 2400 mm sheets of plywood and plasterboard? Everything fits nicely with each other. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 15:18 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:52290] Re: Metric Home Back in the late 1970s, when I was living in Canada, I worked for a home builder who tried to do just this (in fact I was part of the conversion program). It failed of course, simply because (a) the Canadian building code for residential was highly prescriptive, and didn't allow for such variations as stud spacing, thickness, etc, and changing to a performance code, was (at the time) a step too far; and (b) virtually all of the Canadian manufacturers were highly geared to the American market, and weren't prepared to manufacture what for them were relatively small quantities of 'oddball' sizes (rational metric though they may have been). The idea is great - but are you ever going to be able to make a whole industry switch en masse? Great if you can, but I am not holding my breath. John F-L -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:16 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:52288] Metric Home Here is my version of how a Metric House would look like.... http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Metric-House/ Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6049 - Release Date: 01/21/13 Internal Virus Database is out of date.
