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Blended Burger
"Mushrooms are one of the most sustainable foods grown in the United States, particularly when you compare their water usage to that of beef. On average meat/mushroom blended burgers are 24% lower in fat and 27% cheaper than all-beef burgers. Colorado University Dining Services now serves blended burgers in all of the on-campus dining centers!"
2029 National Electrical Code CMP-6 & 7
We are down in the weeds today, coordinating our action with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee. At the usual hour, use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Healthcare Occupancies
In large research universities revenue from the medical research and healthcare delivery enterprises can run over half the gross revenue of the institution. Consideration for this occupancy class propagates across the catalogs of other consortia and ANSI-accredited healthcare standards developers.
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.
Design & Operation of Health Care Facilities
This standard applies to patient care areas and related support areas within health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing facilities, outpatient facilities, and their site. There is a fair amount of cross-referencing of titles between the ASHRAE and International Code Council standards catalog.
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).
Exorbitant Campus Construction Projects
Here we collect report and opinion pieces about how higher education leadership -- governing boards, system chancellors and presidents, etc. -- are effectively pressured into building more local square footage to accommodate a growing percentage of non-US students.