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Bruin Café
Serving coffee in the morning, and wine at night, a "Brown Cafe" recalls Dutch "gezellig"; built with dark wood paneling, low lighting, and classic architectural detail. They are located buildings dating back to the 1200's. The ancestral gathering place nearest the Grote Markt -- "De Drie Gezusters" -- is named after the three daughters of Peter Stuyvesant IV, descendent of the former governor of New York.
World Standards Week 2025
This year’s events will be held in person only to foster networking opportunities, increase engagement, and support collaborations that advance the standardization community’s shared goals. October 21-23, Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Rockville Maryland. Link to ANSI's 2025-2026 Student Paper Competition. (2000 words due by June 5, 2026)
I-Code Group B Committee Action Hearings
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Performance-Based Electrical Power Chain Design
Our proposal to permit a performance-based building premise wiring design option were heard at the Committee Action Hearings in Orlando in early May. A second hearing on this and other proposals will take place in Cleveland, October 22-30.
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 unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land (sometimes invisibly) in public law. We explore the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
International Building Code Definitions: Chapter 2
"Standardized" definitions -- by nature unstable -- create a shared language that transcends local practices or jargon, enabling uniform application and enforcement across jurisdictions. Today at the usual hour we explore the nature and the status of the operational language that supports our raison d'être of making educational settlements safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer-lasting coinciding with the beginning of the Group B Hearings in Cleveland.
Child Day Care
Educational communities are convergent settings for families; day care facilities among them. Many school districts, colleges and universities build and operate child day care enterprises for both academic study and/or as auxiliary (university employee benefit) enterprises. Today we examine the transcripts of the Committee Action Hearings on Group B titles ahead of the Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland, October 22–30, 2025
Current Issues and Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. 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). We have one electrical proposal on the agenda of the International Code Council's Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland October 22-30. We begin coverage of satellite-based internet service to community colleges.
Historic Buildings
Proposals for changes to the 2022 International Existing Building Code -- part of the Group B tranche of titles in the ICC catalog -- will heard in Cleveland, October 22-30. Links to redlines provided here.