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Morning Porridge
Porridge is a dish made by boiling grains, legumes, or starchy plants like oats, rice, cornmeal, or barley in water or milk until it reaches a soft, thick, and creamy consistency. It is usually eaten as a breakfast food and can be sweetened with sugar, honey, or fruit, or flavored with spices and other ingredients. The specific ingredients and preparation vary widely across cultures and regions.
Du froid
Today we unpack the literature for snow and ice management (and enjoyment). Snow and ice are present on many campuses for at least six months of every year. Cold weather technology is a surprisingly large domain with market-makers in every dimension of safety and sustainability.
Snow Load Calculator
Parent standard with links to previously posted representative calculations. Public proposals for the 2028 Revisions of ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures were submitted to technical committees earlier this month and will be evaluated by technical committees throughout the first part of 2025.
Pipe Heating
A classical thermal conduction problem: simulation of the heating of water down the length of a pipe. The inner surface of the pipe is maintained at a uniform temperature.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. 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.
Clearing a Path on Campus
The Columbus campus is home to more than 100,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors each day. When winter weather strikes, Facilities Operations and Development and its partners work around the clock to clear 130 miles of sidewalks and 40 miles of campus roadways.
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). Next Tuesday we prepare proposals for Technical Committee CMP-2.
Building Construction in Cold Weather
Much of our assertion that building construction in education communities resembles a perpetual motion machine rests upon innovation in a broad span of technologies that is effectively weather resistant; that along with development of construction scheduling. Today at 16:00 UTC we review the technical, management and legal literature that supports safe and sustainable construction in less than ideal temperatures.
Electrical heat tracing: international harmonization-now and in the future
In the past, electrical heat tracing has been thought of as a minor addition to plant utilities. Today, it is recognized as a critical subsystem to be monitored and controlled. A marriage between process, mechanical, and electrical engineers must take place to ensure that optimum economic results are produced.