{"id":5769,"date":"2017-10-09T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T07:15:45","slug":"mysterious-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/mysterious-acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s been a month since I started at <a href=\"https:\/\/mndpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MN DPC<\/a>, since I arrived in New York on a Sunday evening. T<strong>he very next day at 9 am I was jet-lagged and on my way to my first day at the studio.<\/strong> I was nervous and very excited, after two months of Skype calls and emails exchanges with the partners I couldn&#8217;t wait to meet them in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Since the first moment I felt very welcome by everyone at this office<\/strong> located in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woolworth_Building\">spectacular skyscraper<\/a>. I felt as well quickly integrated in the team and the first day I was already working on a small scale project. Through this one I was able to <strong>learn the studio work methodology from the very beginning of a project<\/strong>. Early on that same week I was included in two other projects, going to meetings with clients and site visits. It was a great week!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>However I found also many differences between my previous experiences in Spain and the American one.<\/strong> These contrasts make this experience unique and more interesting but also hard sometimes. Different software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metric-conversions.org\/length\/feet-to-meters.htm\">different measurement units<\/a> and of course <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/\">different language<\/a>! I have several tools, physical and virtual, to make these barriers less obstructive, but there is one funny thing I wasn\u2019t expecting and for which I haven\u2019t found any secret help yet. And it is t<strong>he stunning number of ACRONYMS American architects use!<\/strong> Some of them I could deduce myself and some others I could ask a colleague their meaning, but sometimes they are just an enigma to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a sample of some acronyms I have been able to figure out:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TBD \/ To be determined<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FYI \/ For your information<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DOB \/ Department of buildings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MEP \/ \u00a0Mechanical electrical plumbing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PDR \/ Private dining room<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EQ \/ Equal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VIF \/ \u00a0Verify in field<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AFF \/ Above finished floor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bCL \/ Center line<\/span><\/li>\n<li>BO FC \/ Bottom\u00a0of finished ceiling<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RCP \/\u00a0Reflected ceiling plan<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope someone finds this piece of information helpful and please let me know if you find a \u201cStands For\u201d app or I will have to develop it myself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great first week at the studio with lots of contrasts that make the experience more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[1458,1208,1459,105,43],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contrasts","tag-acronyms","tag-contrasts","tag-first-week","tag-imperial-system","tag-new-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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