Morning Reads for July 18

The latest in building code for large scale design (airports, convention centers, etc….) is instead of multiple gang restrooms with x amounts of toilets, x amount of urinals, and x amounts of sinks – you have rows of toilet rooms. Every room has a sink, toilet and urinal. You use less area since you can overla access oints of the fixtures and requires less cross circulation. You can have rooms that are non accessible, ambulatory, fully accessible and larger ones for families, so Mr. Andrew can take his twins in with him into a single room instead of a mega men’s room when he’s traveling alone. Since most large scale construction is designed to have more women’s toilets then men’s, and are calclated on the concept that use is 50/50, this lowers the toilet counts in most cases, since use is no longer based on male vs female fixture counts. It also increases the availability of facilities for when the population of a venue is more geared to a specific demographic on one day and a different one on another, and it has proven in European markets to be easier to secure.