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Online Game Blueprints Versus Stamped Steel Drawings
Players who build in online games trade blueprints like recipes.
The building looked sharp the year it went up. Fifteen summers later the barn red walls have turned a dusty pink on the south side, the west gable is lighter than the east one, and when you run a hand across a panel it comes away covered...
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Players who build in online games trade blueprints like recipes.
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Spend an hour in the workshop files of almost any online building game and you find the same instinct that drives a steel kit...
Games
One of the younger guys on a crew last spring spent every lunch break playing Teardown on a handheld gaming PC, knocking holes...
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When I reviewed permit applications, the drawings that worried me most were not the sloppy ones.
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Spend an evening roofing a locomotive depot in an online train tycoon game and you absorb a lesson that steel buyers pay dearly...
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A steel building can be sealed, insulated and still drip from the ceiling on a cold morning, which baffles owners who assumed a...
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Three people who have priced, erected, and permitted steel buildings long before writing about them: an estimator who has quoted hundreds of jobs, an erector who has bolted up kits in every kind of weather, and a former county permits clerk who has rejected more applications than she approved. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not seen happen on an actual job site.