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Converting Units Calculator for Construction
| Apple iTunes Store | Android Market | Blackberry App World |
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| $2.99 | $2.99 | $2.99 |
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“Great construction focused app - Simple and useful in the field. Helps
to work out quick answers. The density of common units and energy value
tables are helpful.”
- user review in BlackBerry App World
Features of Converting Unit Calculator for Construction:
Contains the most commonly used construction units (English and metric)
including:
length, area, volume, density, mass, pressure, speed, acceleration,
energy and power
& a decimal feet to feet & inches converter.
Tables of helpful information:
Common densities of aluminum, brick, concrete, fresh snow, etc
Energy of common fuels like gasoline, ethanol, propane, natural gas,
coal and wood;
Rules of thumb for power including hints like one ton of air
conditioning equals 12,000 Btu/hour, a person in a room adds about 250
Btu/hour and a Ford Pinto is 88 HP and uses 2 gallons of gas an hour.
Other features & notes:
Results can be emailed, texted or copied to the phone’s clipboard.
Feel free to email us with feature suggestions or new app ideas.
Example:
You know your propane temporary heating unit produces 25,000 Btu/hour.
You have a 5KW electric heating unit that you could also hook up, but
wonder if it’s a waste of time. How close are the two heaters? A quick
check shows that the electric heater will almost double your temporary
heat.
Here's how it works:
1. Scroll through options and select the type of unit to convert: Power
2. Scroll through and select the convert from and convert to units. Input the quantity to convert and review the program output.
You learn that the 17,060 BTU/hour is close to the output of the 25,000 BTU/hour heater.
