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Campus Center Café
This is one of two on-campus cafés (the other, Compass Café, in the Neilson Library).
Community Hub Schools
Build the schools first; the neighborhood will follow. Today we explore possibilities emerging from that reversal. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page at the usual hour.
Babcock Neighborhood School
Traditionally, schools followed the growth of neighborhoods that supported family formation. Maybe the "education agenda" should include building schools first (rather than the other way around). Parents would know in advance what their children will be taught before they buy the house. Today we have an example -- and it worked.
Mobility & Parking
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai. Today we begin reorganizing our exploration and understanding of mobility standards with an emphasis on human factors.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Community Risk Assessment
The (now sun-setted ) NFPA 1600 established a common set of criteria for all hazards disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs. Its content will be rolled into the new NFPA 1660; close-coupled with FEMA's National Incident Management System. Public consultation on the First Draft of the 2028 Revision will be received until July 27th
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
International Zoning Code
"The purpose of the code is to establish minimum requirements to provide a reasonable level of health, safety, property protection and welfare by controlling the design, location, use or occupancy of all buildings and structures through the regulated and orderly development of land and land uses within this jurisdiction...."