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Pumpkin Spice Latte
Student Abby Rosenblum reverse engineers the standard $5 Starbucks seasonal favorite.
Paint
In any industry painting (and decorating) operations play a crucial role in facility management by enhancing the overall appearance, protecting surfaces, and maintaining a healthy and conducive environment. In the education industry we find these operations in both the business and academic units; often co-mingled with sign-making shops. Join us today at 15:00 UTC when we review best practice literature for large-scale painting operations with attention to worker and chemical safety.
Color Metrology
The United States National Institute for Standards and Technology has develope instrumentation, standards artifacts, and measurement protocols to characterize appearance attributes including color, texture, and gloss under a variety of geometrical conditions with the best possible accuracy, thereby addressing the demand for traceable measurements and standards.
Paint Hazard Management
The 2024 Edition of NFPA 1 has been released for public use with the 2027 Revision now underway. Public consultation on the 2027 First Draft will be received until February 13, 2025.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Interior Finishes
During our "Paint" colloquium today we focus on performance standards for controlling fire growth and propagation within buildings with careful consideration of interior finishes and decorative materials. Technical Committees working on the Group A tranche of titles meet in Long Beach, October 23-31.
Color Calculation Standard E3415
According to ASTM member Hugh Fairman, legacy standard E308 gathered data and pre-calculated weight sets for doing what is called "tristimulus integration," which determines the actual color of a measured spectral reflectance or spectral power curve. While this standard is still useful in certain cases, a need has grown for the more updated practice described in E3415 to respond to interest in how illumination is perceived on painted surfaces.
Current Issues and Recent Research
We look ahead to the IAS General Conference in Phoenix in October We are ramping up the reliability utility distribution data collection project for the planned revision of IEEE 493 Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems. Second Draft Meetings on the 2026 National Electrical Code will be hosted in Redondo Beach, California during the same week.
GET TO KNOW YOUR CREWS: PAINT SHOP
“It’s hard to fathom just how many square feet of finished surfaces there are on campus – interior walls, exterior building envelopes, athletic facilities, farm buildings and so much more, With the small crew that we have, we often have to contract out the larger jobs...Our folks are in demand and have so many small-to-medium-size jobs, many that are time sensitive, that they cannot get hung up on those larger, time-intensive projects.” -- Deb Russell, Skilled Trades Supervisor