Interesting, no. I wonder if they wanted to write their own building code, or just residential one. Also I can’t tell what this discussion of sprinklers is about…

Yes it’s 1020.1 that gets most buildings. Then Seattle imposes the requirement on single-stair buildings of at least four stories regardless of occupant load (which is significant since many of them have floor plates under 2,000 sq. ft. and would not otherwise require it)

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Good example of how people can switch between points along the creole continuum, starting basically in the acrolect and ending up in the mesolect by the middle

Well technically it’s a it might be a mesolect on the creole continuum, somewhere halfway between the acrolect (standard English with an accent) and the basilect (which a native English speaker not exposed to Patois would struggle to understand more than a word or two here and there from)

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It’s not an accent, it’s a language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica...

lol absolutely not, you’re not going to shame me out of calling things what they are because it hurts your feelings. If unions don’t want to be accused of featherbedding, they should agree to contract terms that don’t require featherbedding.

In a literal sense, L and 7 train operators. In a more expansive sense, all conductors. nypost.com/2007/06/11/w...

*This* is who they think should be upset about this?!

The restrictions on featherbedding are a joke, it is rampant in certain unions…entire job titles are featherbedding.

Yes but what transit advocates are asking for is for the boss to bargain harder and not accept so much featherbedding. Let the union strike if necessary and hold the line that management will pay good wages but we won’t accept featherbedding.

Chart showing the actual flow rates (black dots), the estimated flow rates using the revised method (blue dot), and the traditional estimation method used since 1940.

This is one of the best illustrations of the recklessly inaccurate flow estimations still primarily used for selecting diameters for water supply piping in multifamily buildings.

I think Italy used to also have something similar (@chittimarco.bsky.social?)

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I can never remember the names of these committees (I think it was an action committee recommending not till 420 ft., the technical committee recommending them almost everywhere), but basically yes

Two interesting nuggets:
1. “These so-called penalty payments added almost 15% to the average engineer’s compensation in 2024, the MTA said”
2. “Mr. Lieber has suggested that the [mediation] boards, whose members were appointed by President Trump, were politically motivated to side with the unions”

West Coast jurisdictions had been interpreting a confusing code section to require in almost all multifam for decades, since 1980 MGM Grand fire. IBC was clarified to require for it for the 2018 version. Pg. 93 has details: admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

Ah right. Idk about DC’s current code, but in the IBC, these are now required for essentially every multifam building, well short of FSAE threshold (120 ft.). My proposal to not require them up to four stories and 16 units was rejected almost unanimously in the fall (Virginia’s guy agreed with me)

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What FSAE contraptions? You mean the elevator hoistway opening protection (SmokeGuard or the hold-open doors around the landing)?

In new construction in France, you often find en-suite half-baths which have just a bathtub and a sink, no toilet.

Disrespectful of my struggles (I migrated social media networks to give you the right to easily find and click links)

Jurisdictions — The Second Egress: Building a Code Change Jurisdictions Cite this image: Speckert, C. (2022). Jurisdictions: Maximum Permitted Height for Single Stair Buildings [Infographic]. McGill...

∞ (in practice I have seen over 30 stories IIRC; I have never seen a taller new PAB with two stairs) secondegress.ca/Jurisdictions

Where else would you put the bathrooms, and what would you do with the space where the bathrooms currently are if they were not there? Also, the Swiss have no shame about traveling through a dwelling unit to reach a bathroom.

If this were new construction, it likely would've been broken into two or three different segments, each with two elevators and one stair.

Alon can be forgiven for not knowing what red means (something was changed from an existing building – it's a conversion!); you can be forgiven for not knowing German ("Umbau und Erweiterung eines Bürogebäudes in Wohnungen" – it's a conversion!). But you each should've figured out the other thing!

2BR/1.5-2BA is pretty normal. (Anyway in a thick building like this, whether or not you need a second [half] bath, you need to fill the dark space somehow.)

Americans look at 20-story apartment buildings in Switzerland with a single stair and say, "That's not safe, you need a second stair." The Swiss look at a double-loaded corridor apartment building with three stairs and say, "That's not safe, you need a fourth stair." www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/n...

In the story about Mamdani's rest station for delivery cyclists, we get an anecdote about a contractor having to jerry-rig an unsafe lifting device using a "piece of bent steel...jammed into the business end of a forklift" because of difficult DOB crane permitting www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/n...

The RER Paris Needs Since the 1960s, Paris has gradually built itself to have a 5-line regional rail network connecting the city and its suburbs, with more than a billion riders a year. Unfortunately, investment has b…

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