Just a progress update before I go to bed.
I have the totalimpact/briq building now. There are a couple of things that are not quite right but nothing architectural.
Looking at where the code is I should be able to get the sandpointx3+pmc/altimus/mpc7410 building. Since there is only one pmc supported things look much simpler :)
Beyond that a lot of my confusion has been looking at code and expecting it to work, or to handle the general case when in fact it doesn't.
As I settle for merely fixing the code so it continues to do what it did before, I can successfully make a lot of progress.
Eric