ALWAYS ON
English Fry Up
Another 10,000 calorie "Heartstopper" breakfast recipe -- also known as a "Full English breakfast"; a traditional meal featuring fried bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, and fried bread or toast, often accompanied by tea.
Cx Building Commissioning
Building commissioning is a systematic quality assurance process that ensures a building infrastructure is designed, installed, tested, and operated exactly as intended by the owner and designers. The goal is to deliver an efficient, comfortable, safe, and energy-saving building from day one — while minimizing future operational problems and costs. Today at 16:00 UTC we pull together the relevant standards and our influence in writing them over the past 30-odd years. Use the login credentials at the upper right our home page.
Whole Building Design Guide
The National Institute of Building Sciences is a non-profit, non-governmental organization bringing together representatives of government, the professions, industry, labor and consumer interests to focus on the identification and resolution of problems and potential problems that hamper the construction of safe, affordable structures throughout the United States.
Performance of Buildings
ASTM Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings was formed in 1946. E06 meets twice a year, usually in April and October, with approximately 240 members attending three to four days of technical meetings.
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Commissioning Process Requirements for New Buildings and New Systems
ASHRAE Standard 202 provides procedures, methods, and documentation for project delivery from predesign through occupancy, ensuring buildings and new systems meet the Owner’s Project Requirements. Sometimes called "Acceptance Testing", building commissioning (also known as new construction commissioning) typically costs 0.5% to 2% of the total construction cost,
International Fire Code
This title is the foundation of safety culture in the United States; incorporated by reference by enforcement agencies at all levels of government. It competes for hegemony in the fire safety domain with NFPA 1 Fire Code and the titles published by ISO Committee 92 and IEC Committee 79. We are waiting for complied result documents from the Committee Action Hearings that concluded in October in Cleveland.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing
Video link to November 21, 2014 teleconference between the University of Michigan and Harvard University on (then, relatively new) NFPA 3 and 4 covering the commissioning of integrated building fire safety systems.