Fa3ien wrote:

> 
>> I just love the way they quote the size of a flight of stairs in 
>> millimeters! I mean, it rises 12 feet up, and we care about 25mm?
> 
> That's because people who build the stairs works with that order
> of tolerance (mm).

So... what the hell do you do if you build some stairs, and the sement 
sinks by 0.4 mm while drying? (A perfectly likely outcome.) Then each 
step might be 0.4 mm out...! No noes! o_O

>> But most of all, it's just numbers. *Millions* of numbers. Almost 
>> every line has a second line next to it with some numbers.
> 
> Yep. That's easier to build something :-)
> Maybe you should ask for simplified plans with only big dimension lines
> (just L and W of each room). We often provide that kind of stuff.

Yeah, well, there are millions and millions of paper plans, but for some 
reason it's very hard to get electronic ones. I've been asking for some 
for months. The plans I've got cut off part of the building, but it'll 
do. ;-)

>> (I just reliased... Every single doorway in the place has a unique ID 
>> written on it. Wow.)
> 
> That's pretty normal. The drawing is probably linked to some spreadsheet
> saying how much doors of what type are needed.

Reminds me of the building meeting I heard about. Apparently the 
interior designers were fussing over what kind of light switches to 
have, and the building engineers couldn't give a fig and just want the 
building to not burn down due to an electrical fire or something... 
Apparently it was a very amusing meeting for spectators!

(Did you know - actually, YOU probably did - they have entire catelogues 
of hundreds of different kinds of light switches. Brass ones. Steel 
ones. Rubberised ones. Plastic ones with every possible surface finish. 
Big ones, small ones, ones for visually-impared people. One switch per 
panel. Two switches per panel. Rows of 8 or more... Jesus, we just want 
lights! LOL.)

>> There are also all sorts of symbols that look like they probably mean 
>> something to a building engineer. Means nothing to me though! Heh.
> 
> Apart from broad room dimensions, ceiling heights and under-slab heights,
> you probably shouldn't care for anything else.

Interesting that the archive is shown has having falls 8x thicker than 
everywhere else. And on the door it says [in tiny letters]

   BD10
   2no.
   FD120SC
   TO GIVE
   4 HOURS

And next to one wall, it says [in slightly bigger letters]

   CEILING CAVITY BARRIER

Presumably this is all related to fire prevention or something...

Also, next to my server room there's [yet another] dashed line labelled

   CEILING CAVITY

[Hmm, is there a reason all writing must be upper case?]

Of course, the most fun thing about our building is that it isn't 

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