First uk building to be built using metric rather than imperial measurements

Question

Anyone know the name of the first uk building to be built using metric rather than imperial measurements

Answer 1

hail the metric units!!!! it makes sense and much easier to understand!! d**n those yanks who are still primitive and uses yards.

i would suggest it may be around the 60's just before the SI units comes into place.

Answer 2

I do not know about making sense, if you are not familar with imperial measurement how can you ever work on the refurbishment of old buildings, I found it just as easy to work in imperial measurement as I do in metric measurement.  I believe there was leass room for error as engineers and builders could relate to the imperial measuremt far easier than using metric,  something far and a half yards long means something where as 4,500 mm is not as easily perceived.

When machining accuracy of 1,000 th of an inch seems far easier to work with than 1,000 th of 25.4 mm

Answer 3

Crow all you want "lazy student" because wheel diameters the world over are still measured in inches!  They may be converted to a metric number, but it'll still be in even inches.

Seriously, my stepson is from Australia and after being taught decimals only, he's had a hard time with fractions.  Sure, metrics are less complicated but it's all what you get used to.  Whether you say one half, 1/2 or .5, it's all the same to me with none being any more difficult to understand than the other.  

Answer 4

something tells me that this was in scotland but i cant remember........

Answer 5

maybe a building to so with astronomy, perhaps on the Greenwich/Edinbourgh meridians.

Napoleon defined the meter as 1/10,000,000 of the length of the arc running North from the equator through Paris, to the North Pole

I'd guess a similar thing would be done in UK, (as it then imposible to lose your "standard" unit of length!)