What Kind of Metrication for Building: Soft or Hard, Halfway or Wholehearted?.

Wehrli, Robert

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Publication Date: 1974

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What Kind of Metrication for Building: Soft or Hard, Halfway or Wholehearted?

Wehrli, Robert

Building Research, 10, 1, 9-14, Jan-Mar 74

Discusses differe nces between "soft" and "hard" conversion to metrication; what benefits or problems might be expected; the role of engineering standards; the role of modular precoordination as an adjunct to engineering standards; and how metrication might be turned to advantage for the users of buildings. (A paper presented at Building Research Institute conference, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1973.) (Author/MLF)

Descriptors: Construction Industry, Human Factors Engineering, Metric System, Modular Building Design, Speeches, Standards

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