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Five Best Coffee Shops in Birmingham
"Coffee is one of the essential parts of a student's journey through college. That's why it's great to know the best coffee shops before moving to your new school!" -- Molly and Brooke
Fine Arts 200
"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap" -- Marcel Duchamp
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. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. 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.
Cultural Resource Properties
Education communities are stewards of cultural assets whose safety features are cut from a "fabric" of about twenty best practice catalogs. Fire safety is a top-most risk to manage and one with heartbreaking results when it fails; as in Paris on April 15, 2019. The 2021 Edition is the current edition. Public consultation on the Second Draft of the 2025 Edition closes October 31, 2024.
H.R. 7923: Limit USDA funding for ground-mounted solar energy systems
Curated list of federal legislative actions affecting United States educational settlements.
Energy 200
Starting 2023 we break down our coverage of education community energy codes and standards into two tranches. Energy 400 covers the catalog of titles for intra-building energy systems -- i.e energy delivery networks between buildings. Energy 200 covers titles within any given building envelope.
The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
Professor Pascual Berrone: "Many companies highlight one green positive aspect of their product or service, and hide the true impact that its production has on the environment”. With more and more NGO’s act as public watchdogs, "the consequences of getting caught can be, in terms of reputation but also economically, severe”.
Energy Standard for *Sites* and Buildings
To paraphrase Marc Andreessen: "Building standards are eating the world and ASHRAE is eating standards." Just when you thought ASHRAE's claim to energy regulation could not get any larger, it has recently appropriated everything *between* buildings in its scope. At least two energy/building enclosure related redlines are open for consultation through May 27th.
International Energy Conservation Code
The International Energy Conservation Code sets out minimum efficiency standards for new construction for a structure’s walls, floors, ceilings, lighting, windows, doors, duct leakage and air leakage.