In-swingers, shit-houses, and do you wanna be in my gang?

(Or - The art of making the headline FAR more interesting than the story.)

This, from one architect to some other architects, is possibly the most life-negating bit of prose I have ever had the misfortune to read.

Again I have just inherited plans where the toilet layouts are too small… I have, however, discovered where the problem occurs (assuming its not just bad planning)

THE METRIC HANDBOOK is WRONG.

3.6 illustrates a WC cubicle with an in-swinging door of 1550mm – this DOES NOT COMPLY with BS6465-2-1996 (pp10/ pdfp14) or PartM (clause 5.14a)

To help overcome this problem in the future (apart from this email rant) I have added additional (microstation) cells to the file G:\904-CAD\0-CAD-Data\001-V85Standards\cell\CELLS-ROOM DATA\Sanitary.cel

The cells are:

WC-Cubicle-ASContourBTW-PL (Plan BTW WC Cubicle)

WC-CubicleAmbulant-ASContourBTW-PL (Plan BTW WC Ambulant Cubicle)

Please. Please, please do not plan toilet cubicles with in-swinging doors of only 1500mm deep

Further to this and the office meeting a few weeks back, the delivery group has been split into three groups – of which I am looking at METHODOLOGY. The main intention of this group is to develop a family of ‘standards’ that the office can use and refer to.

It would be great to know if any of you have:

× any specific ideas on what could be included in this

× standards that you have already developed on projects

× or want to join the group

From this we can develop some useful guides and ways of working in the office and hopefully avoid fire-fighting on site so users can fit into toilet cubicles!

Well, do you? Wanna join the group? Be honest now... You do, doncha?