- Author
-
Mahaffey, C. T.
- Title
- Metrication Problems in the Construction Codes and Standards Sector. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS TN 915,
June 1976,
25 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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building codes
|
regulations
|
planning
- Identifiers
- dimensional coordination; metric conversion
- Abstract
- This report is a response to a request for an outline of the problems to be faced by the building standards development and building regulatory sectors of the American Building industry. It includes a discussion of the SI metric units themselves, giving examples of the conventions regarding their use adopted in other courntries to illustrate the nature of the decisions that must be made by the U.S. building industry. It discusses the relationship of dimensional corrdination to the metric conversion effort, its impact on the U.S. building regulatory system and illustrates some of the decisions these sectors need to make. It also discusses some of the organiational problems required to involve all segments of the industry in this decision-making process, and for implementing these decisions in a coordinated way on a national scale.