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Best Coffee Spots Near Campus
Independent college town coffee shops are an extension of the university itself. Arguably, you cannot host an educational settlement without a coffee shop and vice-versa. With links to Addison & Steele.
Ædificare & Utilization
Education community construction may well be the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual motion machine. It is overbuilt. For some unknown reason the usual first-day-of-the-month release will happen on May 7th instead. This much is unchanged: The education "industry" is the second largest building construction market in the world. Upwards of 40 million square feet the University of Michigan has the largest measure of square footage of any campus in the world
Education & Healthcare Facility Electrotechnology Committee
This committee's purpose is to provide academic researchers and practicing electrical designers in the education and healthcare facilities industry easier access to the expertise of 400,000 electrical power and telecommunication engineers across the globe. Today we revisit the feasibility of impedance grounding for large campus medium voltage distribution systems with experts from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
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.
Healthcare Facilities Code
Yesterday's end of the public comment period on the 2027 Healthcare Facilities Code precedes our work on the 2029 National Electrical Code ( which accepts new input until next Thursday). These two codes have become increasingly intertwined since 1993 when we began in advocating on behalf of large university healthcare systems. During our regular Office Hours, we compare and contrast the two codes side by side. Please use the login credentials located at the upper right of our home page.
Joint Use of Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Facilities and Equipment
We follow concepts tracking in this draft standard that may be incorporated by reference in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code and the 2026 National Electrical Code; both of which inform decisions made by local and state energy regulators with oversight over the "cities-within-cities" which educational settlements in the United States often are.
Energy Standard for Data Centers
The fourth edition of ASHRAE Standard 90.4 was published in late 2025 (superseding the 2022 edition) and it provides leading practice for smaller enterprise level data centers as well as hyperscale campuses.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We met both deadlines for the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code and the NFPA National Electrical Code. We are now in the process of getting ready for our on-site May 4th meeting in Lexington. Kentucky.