Robin de Jongh is a consulting engineer and designer who has successfully used SketchUp for multi-million-pound new developments, and a whole bunch of smaller projects, from steel staircases to new product prototypes.
When did they start describing buildings by weight? Because those are certainly some heavy buildings.
When did they start describing buildings by weight?
Pretty much since we started doing the calculations. The Empire State Building [newyorktra...tation.com], Sears Tower ( now Willis Tower) [visit-chic...linois.com] and the CN Tower [worsleyschool.net] (ok, not a true building in the strictest sense) all have weight measurements.
Because those are certainly some heavy buildings.
Considering the Empire State Building weighs 730,000,000 pounds, those are small buildings.
My fellow Americans are so stupid. This is a British thing. We measure buildings by stories, they do it by weight. The better question is why doesn't the summary say multi-million-kilogram?
multi-million-pound?! (Score:4, Funny)
Robin de Jongh is a consulting engineer and designer who has successfully used SketchUp for multi-million-pound new developments, and a whole bunch of smaller projects, from steel staircases to new product prototypes.
When did they start describing buildings by weight? Because those are certainly some heavy buildings.
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Pretty much since we started doing the calculations. The Empire State Building [newyorktra...tation.com], Sears Tower ( now Willis Tower) [visit-chic...linois.com] and the CN Tower [worsleyschool.net] (ok, not a true building in the strictest sense) all have weight measurements.
Because those are certainly some heavy buildings.
Considering the Empire State Building weighs 730,000,000 pounds, those are small buildings.
And yes, I get the whoosh.
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when they're trying to figure out if the library will sink with and without the book load.
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My fellow Americans are so stupid. This is a British thing. We measure buildings by stories, they do it by weight. The better question is why doesn't the summary say multi-million-kilogram?
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We measure buildings by stories
Are you the same fools who start counting your floors at 0 instead of 1? (The first floor in America being the "ground floor" in Britain.)
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