Fa3ien wrote:

> 
>> (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.

I wonder if that's what "FD30SC" means? (Every door seems to have this 
written next to it, in addition to a unique number of the form "DB7".)

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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> It's all French words :-) That said, Wikipedia can help:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brise_soleil
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baluster (read the first paragraph and not 
> just the title)

Ah... So that useless bit that sticks out of the front of the building 
is meant to be a sun shade?

[Interesting how all the buildings constructed so far have an identical 
projection, despite facing different directions. I mean, surely the sun 
can only rise from one direction... And sides, it's far too tiny to 
shade anything except the top of the roof.]

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> Fa3ien wrote:

>>
>>> (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.
> 
> I wonder if that's what "FD30SC" means? (Every door seems to have this 
> written next to it, in addition to a unique number of the form "DB7".)

FD = Framed Door ? (such conventions are hardly universal)
30 = maybe 30 minutes fireproof ? on the leaf is 30 inches wide ?
SC = Single C???... ?

Sometimes there's an explanation on the edge (along with the meaning of hatches).

Fabien.

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> Fa3ien wrote:

>>
>>> (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.
> 
> I wonder if that's what "FD30SC" means? (Every door seems to have this 
> written next to it, in addition to a unique number of the form "DB7".)

for example, we name our doors like :
PSF-93-10
09F 2.20
(both symbols grouped in an hexagon)

which means :

Porte Simple Feu (Single door, fire resistant)
93 cm leaf in a 10 cm wall

the lower symbol is the room to which the door gives access

09 (underground, 00 is ground, 01 1st level...)
F : zone F (fire detection zone)
2.20 : hierarchic geographical numbering within a zone

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Fa3ien wrote:

>>
>> I wonder if that's what "FD30SC" means? (Every door seems to have this 
>> written next to it, in addition to a unique number of the form "DB7".)
> 
> FD = Framed Door ? (such conventions are hardly universal)
> 30 = maybe 30 minutes fireproof ? on the leaf is 30 inches wide ?
> SC = Single C???... ?
> 
> Sometimes there's an explanation on the edge (along with the meaning of 
> hatches).

Not this time there isn't.

It's probably a catelogue number, and if you had their catelogue you 
could look it up.

(I recall apparently there was a long debate about whether the doors 
would be stained wood, or whether they would be painted black. The 
designers were concerned that wood would clash with the white walls and 
black skirting boards. [I kid you not!] IIRC, they eventually decided on 
stained wood doors with black door frames...)

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Invisible wrote:

> Also, next to the stairs, I found this:
> 
>   OVERALL RISE OF STAIR 3825mm
> 
>   EACH RISE: 165mm (x23)
>   EACH GOING: 250mm.
>   BALUSTRADE TO BE TOP FIXED.
>   DESIGN TO COMPLY WITH B.REGS
>   PART K & M.
> 
> 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?

Hey, I just noticed. The individual stairs are numbered. As in, from 1 
to 23. Wow!

There's also a small barely-readable table that says

    C   ARCHIVE STORE / INST. ROOMS RESETOUT  01.10.07  SH   DS
    B   DOOR REFS ADDED. DIMS UPDATED         28.08.07  SH   DS
    A   ISSUED FOR COMMENT                    15.08.07  SH   DS
   REV  DESCRIPTION                           DATE      DWN  CKD

I notice that in the middle of the building there's a line of what look 
like H-section girders. Each one has a dashed line going through it, 
ending in a unique letter on the outside of the building.

(To give you some idea, the lines C, D, E and F are all parallel and 
equidistant. However, F and G are *not* parallel. The exterior walls on 

particular, this means that the corridore to my office and my server 
room has non-parallel walls. Let's hope I don't need to wheel anything 
large through there!)

There's also lots of little enigmatic annotations such as

   BELOW GROUND
   DRANAGE CONNECTION
   FOR WHB

and

   STUB STACK

and

   sinks/washers
   see fittings

and

   RWP
   INTO
   BG.

Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:

   +-----------+

   |           |
   |           |
   |   RISER   |
   |           |
   |           |
   |           |

   +-----------+

Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...

There's also lots of circles with numbers in them. Or bisected circles 
with pairs of numbers in them.

I'm sure all this means something to the guys drawing the plans. ;-)

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> Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
> 
>   +-----------+

>   |           |
>   |           |
>   |   RISER   |
>   |           |
>   |           |
>   |           |

>   +-----------+
> 
> Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
> 

What the...

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You should ask for 3D plans in .pov format. Or make them?

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> You should ask for 3D plans in .pov format. Or make them?

OMFG... POV-Ray FTW!! :-D

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible escribió:
>> Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
>>
>>   +-----------+
>>   | 87°    94°|
>>   |           |
>>   |           |
>>   |   RISER   |
>>   |           |
>>   |           |
>>   |           |
>>   | 90°       |
>>   +-----------+
>>
>> Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
>>
> 
> What the...

Should probably be more like:

+--..__
|87     ''--.._
|            94|
|              |
|90            |
+--------------+

...still not too fun to build.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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