ALWAYS ON
Late Night Breakfast
A threshold feeling within spring renewal prevails in educational settlements now. The midnight breakfast tradition is held during the final exam period, typically on the nights before the first night of exams. It is meant to help students relax and de-stress at challenging time of the academic year.
Disaster 500
During today's session we approach disaster avoidance, management and recovery literature from a different point of view than our customary approach -- i.e. what happens when, a) there is failure to conform to the standard, b) there is no applicable standard at all.
Stalking the Black Swan
During our previous Disaster colloquium on May 8th the discussion drifted toward the Power Laws, a relatively new tributary in academic research, which identifies critical points in complex systems and can forecast when phase transitions may happen. Mathematically, financial catastrophes bear a remarkable similarity to avalanches, earthquakes, floods and mass extinction events.
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.
Storm Shelters
Tornado season in the Central Plains inspires a revisit of the best practice catalogs for avoiding, surviving and recovering from natural disaster with special interest in the supporting role of education community infrastructure.
Risk Assessment in Emergency Facilities
This paper demonstrates a quantitative method for evaluating risk and conveying the results into a power system design. These methods employ classical lumped parameter modeling of power chain architectures and can be applied to any type of critical facility needed for disaster response and recovery.
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.
Critical Operations Power Systems
The United States is high on the list of nations with weather related disasters. With 2005 Hurricane Katrina as primary catalyst a new article asserting best practice for protecting disaster management infrastructure was added to the National Electrical Code. Linked here are transcripts of the changes made by Technical Committee 13 that will appear in 2026 revision, ahead of release in the fall.