ALWAYS ON
Potato beef casserole
Classic Layered Hamburger Potato Casserole evolved from older "hash"-style dishes (chopped meat and potatoes, dating back to the 19th century) and the broader rise of casseroles in the United States. Creamy, cheesy, hearty — perfect for cold weather, family dinners, potlucks, and church suppers.
Elevators & Lifts
Education communities--specifically research colleges and universities--are stewards of 100's of elevators. The first cost of building them--$50,000 to $150,000 per floor-- is outpaced by the life cycle cost of maintaining licensed mechanics, inspection fees and software upgrades. Today we update our understanding of the moment in regulations; taking time to examine state-level exceptions and adaptations of generally accepted best practice.
Lifts, escalators & moving walks
The capital-intensiveness of this technology limits standards setting participants to multi-national industrial manufacturing conglomerates. Technical committee rosters reveal the deep-pockets of the Producer Interest for funding travel to marquee meeting locations. Virtually absent is the User Interest and, in the case of the educational settlements, the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States.
Quadrivium: Spring
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 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Building Structural Maintenance
Any multi-story building requires inspection and maintenance of structural steel framework. The steel supports the building’s weight and resists environmental forces like wind and seismic activity. Over time, corrosion, fatigue cracks, or connection failures can weaken the structure, risking collapse. During today's session we examine the relevant standards with proposed revisions open for public comment.
Elevator Safety Code
Elevators, lifts and moving walks make the urban environment possible. Many large educational settlements have 100 to 1000 elevators to operate and maintain according to the minimum standards set in the A17.X tranche of titles. Today we explore the reasons and the remedies for elevator passengers trapped in elevators during power outages -- with consideration for passenger need to communicate with the outside world. Public consultation on redlines run at a brisk pace.
Current Issues & Recent Research
Today at the usual hour we summarize the highlights of events and decisions made at the I&CPS Conference in Lexington, Kentucky last week. We always schedule it the week ahead of Mother's Day; our 62nd year.
Rogers Building
The earliest installation of a passenger elevator in a university building in the United States was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. It marked an important milestone in the history of vertical transportation on college and university campuses, and it paved the way for the adoption of elevators in other educational institutions as they expanded in size and height over time.