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Founded in 1866 as a private settlement located in Michigan's second largest city -- Grand Rapids (Kent County) -- the University typically enrolls 5000-odd students across about 80 acres on its Lettinga Campus.
Health 400 | OB-GYN
Today we break down the stack of regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities. We limit our interest to systems -- water, power, telecommunication and security; for example -- that are unique to campus-configured, city-within-city risk aggregations. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Child Care Center Design
Local Initiatives Support Corporation hosts studio MLA Architects for a workshop to assist architects, landscape architects, and designers gain a better understanding of the basic elements, parameters, and strategies for designing spaces for early care and education settings.
Children’s Rights Management
Attached herewith is the First Draft of an Icelandic Standards Association proposal for a new technical committee. We have until December 10th to submit our comments to the American National Standards Institute.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where 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 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.
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. ICC staff is now curating the results of the Group B Committee Action Hearings for final balloting that closes January 6th.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".
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). Tomorrow we prepare proposals for Technical Committee CMP-1.
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'