METRIC DESIGN GUIDE
AGC Letter to Metrication Operating Committee
THE ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA
1957 E Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 (202) 393 2040 FAX (202) 347-4004
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MARVIN M. BLACK, President ROBINS H. JACKSON, Senior Vice President
BYRON L. FARRELL, Vice President LAWRENCE J. MCGOUGH, Treasurer
HUBERT BEATTY, Executive Vice President
Mr. Thomas R. Rutherford, P.E.
Chairman, Construction Subcommittee
Metrication Operating Committee
5901 Leesburg Pike, Skyline 6, Suite 310
Falls Church, VA 22041
Dear Tom:
Thank you for your fine presentations on "Federal Metrication Efforts" to the Federal Building Procedures
and Project Delivery Systems Committees in Asheville, North Carolina. You will be pleased to know that both
committees plus the Building Division Steering Committee strongly endorse your efforts, in fact, urge you to
pick up the pace of metric conversion. The committee recommendations are consistent with AGC national
policy which states unequivocally:
"Recognizing the inevitability of the nation eventually adopting the metric system, AGC endorses the
consensus statement of the American Metric Council that, "If the industry is to go metric, a hard conversion
is recommended where there is an economic advantage." 21 AGC supports an orderly conversion to the
metric system at the earliest practical date. 32"
We look forward to working with you and the Metrication Operating Committee in achieving total
conversion within your timetable. As you put it so succinctly, metric is the language of 93% of the world's
population, only the U.S. remains in inch/pound. If we are to protect and develop global markets, we must
speak the same language.
Sincerely,
<signature of Director>
William J. Angelo
Director
Building Division
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Note:
Metric Conversion Committee Meeting Report, September 16, 1977
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Metric Committee Report to Board, March 17, 1981
cc: Robert F. Lathlaen
J. Howard Mock
Thomas J. McGough
J. Doug Pruitt
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