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Catfish
Aquaculture specialist Dr. Jimmy Avery provides overview of the Mississippi catfish industry. Link to traditional cornmeal recipe.
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.
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.
Quadrivium: Summer
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.
Wood
Building schoolhouses with wood in the United States had significant practical and cultural implications, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries. Wood was the most readily available and cost-effective material in many parts of the country. Abundant forests provided a plentiful supply, making it the logical choice for construction. The use of wood allowed communities to quickly and efficiently build schoolhouses, which were often the first public buildings erected in a new settlement.
Interior Finishes & Wood
Committee Action Hearings on the 2025 Group B tranche of titles will be heard in Cleveland October 22-30. Our proposal for new performance electrical design concepts will also be on the agenda..
Current Issues and Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. The 2026 National Electrical Code where sit on CMP-15 overseeing health care facility electrical issues should be released any day now. We have one proposal on the agenda of the International Code Council's Group B Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland in October. The IAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver happens at the same time.
National Design Specification for Wood Construction
The 2024 National Design Specification for Wood Construction was developed by AWC’s Wood Design Standards Committee and approved as a standard by the American National Standards Institute on October 16, 2023. The 2024 NDS is referenced in the 2024 International Building Code.