Page C13, July 22, 1979 - Sunday News

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Solving metric hangups

Solutions to problems
arising from conversion to

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residential construction
industry.
The Public Awareness

ector for the Construction
Industry (PASCON) is busy
drawing up lists of resource
people to handle regional
problems on anad hoc basis,
and has undertaken a study
of the distribution of metric
panel products as a_ pilot
project.

The new committee is
composed of representatives
of the major sectors of the

industry and
Commission

Metric
Canada.

public awareness and to
analyze and solve specific
problems related to metric.

The problem in panel
products is a typical
example, Duxbury — said.
Users go to their distributors
for metric-sized plywood but
when told they have to order
by carload lots contractors
often decide to make do with
imperial products.
Manufacturers do not get
this kind of information
passed on, according to
Duxbury, and say they do

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not see any demand for the
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deal with distributors of
these products. The retailing
sector committee dealt
primarily with shopping
centre type odtlets while the
construction industry sector
committee assumed
distributors were part of the
retailing sector.

Another of the problems
the committee would like to
resolve is the common
misconception that metric
construction costs more.

The committee mentioned
instances where metric

conversion has benefited the
industries concerned, such |

ere have’ been some
problems where industries
are Carrying two lines, one in
metric and one in imperial
sizes.

‘Duxbury said the com-
mittee’s role is just simply to
act as a catalyst and get the
various organizations to
resolve these types of
problems. “We are certainly
not co-opting their
responsibility,” he said.

Builders who need help
converting can apply to
CMHC in their own areas.

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