Comment on Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on holdparentComments−throwawayboise5yConstruction and civil engineering (in the USA) is still done in feet and inches. All construction materials are sold this way. It would just introduce error to try to plan a building in metric dimensions.−coding1235yEven in the UK you end up with construction materials at those same sizes. Click the link and tell me how large the following sheet size in feet?https://www.forestrallshop.co.uk/plywood-london/birch-plywoo...Comically they apparently also imported our lumber price fiasco.
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Construction and civil engineering (in the USA) is still done in feet and inches. All construction materials are sold this way. It would just introduce error to try to plan a building in metric dimensions.
Even in the UK you end up with construction materials at those same sizes. Click the link and tell me how large the following sheet size in feet?
https://www.forestrallshop.co.uk/plywood-london/birch-plywoo...
Comically they apparently also imported our lumber price fiasco.