You’re looking at a set of architectural drawings for a complex layout job with no square interior walls and the client asks, "How fast can you do this?"
Throughout its history, the Macon County Courthouse in Decatur, IL has inhabited a variety of buildings, from a log cabin built in 1829 where Abraham Lincoln practiced law, to a stone and brick four-story building with a clock tower built in 1892 to its current location — a five-story limestone building constructed in 1939.
In one year, Sonic food chains sell enough tots to circle the globe and give away more than enough mints to reach the top of the Empire State Building and back to the ground 5,000 times.
Look beyond active fire protection, such as fire extinguishers and pay equal attention to the systems that work to contain and compartmentalize fire and smoke.