c,

I love it.

And then there is the measure in Drews and Laibs. Laib was too tall to 
fit through the access hole that we cut in the wall. I was too wide. The 
lift we needed on one job was 6 Drews tall.

One thing we have learned in doing a probe is to ignore the 2' x 2' 
dimension the engineer sketches on the envelope (if we are so lucky as 
to get a sketch) but to look at the engineer's head and make sure that 
the hole we make is large enough for them to rotate without grabbing a 
piece of wire mesh or other nasty obstruction in the face. Their 
tendency of focus to grab information as quickly as possible often 
precludes ultra-safe work practice. "Hey, you want these goggles?" We 
aim to deliver our engineers whole and intact without undue scratches or 
cuts from the exploratory process.

Recent news in NYC was to effect of building work sites burning (One 
Liberty Plaza) due to work site smoking habits. Which brings up that 
union workforce is obviously better as to safety as they are more than 
willing to take the time to go outside to smoke whereas non-union 
workforce tends to be ignorant of smoke-safety work practice in that 
non-protected they will keep tearing out asbestos while chain smoking.

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Cuyler Page wrote:
> Just at the time the Canadian Standard shifted to metric, with the 
> millimetre declared the legal basic value for dimensioning to avoid 
> any need for decimal points that might be mistaken for dust spots on 
> prints (or vice versa), the architectural firm I was with was doing a 
> college campus.   We were all wrestling our minds into metric, 
> including the foreman who called at 9 am on the first day of layout on 
> the building site asking what the hell the number on the plan for the 
> length of the first building meant - 11,347,569 !?!?!?!?    We were 
> simply working to the new standard set by the government, the 
> millimetre.    A couple of weeks later, an architect recently arrived 
> from Egypt joined the firm, his desk straight across from mine.   He 
> thought we were all absolutely nuts, and didn't hesitate to tell us so 
> in Mediterranean/Arabian style.   He said that in Egypt the basic 
> design and building standard was the centimetre.   No one cared about 
> anything less, it just took care of itself, and that the rest of the 
> world operated that way too.   He thought the Canadians simply were 
> too anal. "Who Cares!", he declared, hating to have to detail to 
> millimetres.   He left a month later, taking his stinking little brown 
> Egyptian endless chain smoking cigarettes with him, Allah be Praised.
>
> cp in millimetre bc 

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