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A quick poll here:
We’ve all seen the phrase that says something like, “building to the code is building to minimum levels of safety”.
When you hear someone say their building design meets code requirements, which analogy most closely resembles your internal reaction:
1. Do you view it like someone standing on one foot with their toes over the edge of the cliff… “safe” for the moment, but it a practical sense still very unsafe?
2. Do you view it like a student who graduated with a C- average?... just enough to pass on a bell-curve, but nothing to brag about?
3. Do you view it as the football receiver whose foot just barely touches the corner of the end zone before going out of bounds… hey, it’s a solid 6 points on the board, just as if he’d walked down the middle of the end zone?
4. Do you view it like the guy who confidently arrives at the station and gets on the commuter train just before the door closes - - admiring that he no wasted time or effort waiting at the station?
5. Do you view it like the Olympic figure skating… you passed the compulsory moves, and everything else is just subjective stylistic razzle-dazzle to earn more points with the judges?
6. Do you have your own analogy that would fit better here?
And, since we're talking analogies, is there anything you've learned from other walks of life (such as the football example) that colors how you view meeting the "minimum" requirements of the code?
We’ve all seen the phrase that says something like, “building to the code is building to minimum levels of safety”.
When you hear someone say their building design meets code requirements, which analogy most closely resembles your internal reaction:
1. Do you view it like someone standing on one foot with their toes over the edge of the cliff… “safe” for the moment, but it a practical sense still very unsafe?
2. Do you view it like a student who graduated with a C- average?... just enough to pass on a bell-curve, but nothing to brag about?
3. Do you view it as the football receiver whose foot just barely touches the corner of the end zone before going out of bounds… hey, it’s a solid 6 points on the board, just as if he’d walked down the middle of the end zone?
4. Do you view it like the guy who confidently arrives at the station and gets on the commuter train just before the door closes - - admiring that he no wasted time or effort waiting at the station?
5. Do you view it like the Olympic figure skating… you passed the compulsory moves, and everything else is just subjective stylistic razzle-dazzle to earn more points with the judges?
6. Do you have your own analogy that would fit better here?
And, since we're talking analogies, is there anything you've learned from other walks of life (such as the football example) that colors how you view meeting the "minimum" requirements of the code?