Note from the webmaster: Sorry, I lost the original query message, but I remember that it was about the amount of feet to a storey (story in US English) ie. the height of a building floor.

• ID# 237.2 (reply to #237.1) - 4 November 2002
  The height of a floor varies somewhat, depending on the free height of the interior, the height of the installation space below and/or above the floor slab and the thickness of the floor structure. Although usually the floor heights (from ceiling to ceiling) in the (modern) residential spaces are lower than in the commercial ones, examples like the old, landmarked apartment houses with their 9-foot free ceiling heights obviously don't follow the pattern. The conversion of the Gulf & Western Building to the Trump International Hotel & Tower saw the increase of floors from 45 (for offices) to 52 as the condo and hotel floors required less vertical space. A typical office floor might take approx. 10 feet (3 meters) with the installations on the ceiling and the slab, whereas a residential floor might measure a foot less at 2.7 m. The retail spaces -- and especially the lobbies -- in the lower floors of the towers are, of course, a different story altogether, measuring anything from 10 to 30 feet (9 meters)... ED