I visited Paris with my family
over the holidays. A couple days before Christmas, we walked to the Eiffel Tower and
encountered very long lines of tourists. By contrast, no one was standing in line at the sewer
tour’s ticket booth late Christmas Eve morning. We walked right up, purchased
our tickets and down the stairs we went to begin our self-guided tour.
The French arrangement of placing
the toilet in a separate room from the rest of the bathroom fixtures makes
sense to me, for the most part. I’ve encountered this setup in French hotels
and, recently, in a private apartment in Paris where I spent Christmas with my
wife, our three grown kids and relatives who are living
there. After all, why should someone
experiencing French cuisine on top of a trans-Atlantic flight tie up an entire
bathroom for long periods of time?
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When my wife and I travel for pleasure, we prefer to stay at
small boutique hotels. Their charm is quite
unique. The wallpaper or floor covering in one room might well be different
from another room on the same floor. And then we get to the plumbing...
When
IAPMO asked me to moderate a symposium on “emerging technology,” I couldn’t
help but recall the story of a former director of the U.S. Patent Office.
With
440,000 premature deaths caused every year in the United States by cigarette
smoking, the up to 900 lives that can be saved annually through fire-safe
cigarettes appears at first glance to add up to an insignificant number.
The chief advantage of BIM is that it allows a greater degree of
collaboration among designers; mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors;
and building owners. Most of BIM’s potential benefits come from members of the
construction team sharing the same building model - or different views of the
same model, said Robert Middlebrooks, industry
programs manager for Autodesk during the recent annual Mechanical Contractors
Association of America convention held in Palm Desert, CA.