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French Baguette & Cowboy Coffee
Napoleon Bonaparte changed the specification for the traditional round bread so that his soldiers could more easily march with food. Chef Woehrle from the National Center for Hospitality Studies in Jefferson County Kentucky demonstrates how to do it.
Occupancy Classification and Use
In educational settings occupancy classifications protect vulnerable populations (especially children) who may lack the awareness or ability to respond quickly in emergencies. Proper classification ensures adequate exits, fire-resistant materials, and ventilation suited for classrooms or assembly areas. These classifications also impact zoning and insurance. Join us today at the usual hour when we drill into time-sensitive specifics.
Ædificare & Utilization
Education community construction may well be the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual motion machine. During today's session we spend a few minutes examining the latest monthly construction activity report which typically reveals the USA education "industry" as the first or second largest building construction market in the world. Question1: What is the business case for expansion of multi-building educational settlements outside the home? Is space use effective?
Data Point: National Center for Education Statistics
Our aperiodic query into whether educational settlements are either under-used, over-built, under-built, or something else, and for what purpose.
Quadrivium: Spring
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.
Means of Egress
Just as building entrances are designed as an architectural statement and primary point of interaction, points of egress are not always the same as the way into a building. Committee Action Hearings for the Group B tranche of titles will be heard in Orlando, April 26-May 7; including one of our own.
Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy
This title specifies conditions for acceptable thermal environments and is intended for use in design, operation, and commissioning of buildings and other occupied spaces. It is impossible to underestimate the sensitivity of persons of all ages to room temperature in educational settings; often a battleground among permanent staff.
Current Issues and Recent Research
The Joint IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society Committee to which we belong has completed its work on the 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft. Public consultation on ballot results will be received by NFPA until April 18th. While all the issues are fresh in mind it is never unwise to draft proposals for the 2029 National Electrical Code which will begin accepting new public input some time after release of the new edition in the fall.
Life Safety Code
NFPA 101 is the foundation for almost all building safety laws in the United States and is referenced in nearly every other title in the NFPA catalog. It is primarily a building egress document from a fire safety point of view. but other titles in the NFPA catalog reference its requirements for emergency illumination systems, among others. Public comment on the First Draft of the 2027 Revision will be received until June 3, 2025.