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Blended Burger
"Mushrooms are one of the most sustainable foods grown in the United States, particularly when you compare their water usage to that of beef. On average meat/mushroom blended burgers are 24% lower in fat and 27% cheaper than all-beef burgers. Colorado University Dining Services now serves blended burgers in all of the on-campus dining centers!"
H.R. 4143 National Construction Safety Team Enhancement Act
Curated list of federal legislative actions affecting United States educational settlements.
“Backup” Power Systems
Today at the usual hour we examine the state of standards, codes and regulations governing the performance of power systems that energize when the primary source of electricity is lost. Best practice cross-references the catalogs of several legacy standards developers; all of whom compete for hegemony and advantage in getting their titles incorporated by reference into public safety law.
August 14, 2003
The University of Michigan district energy microgrid worked flawlessly before microgrids were cool.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many 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. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Life Safety Code
NFPA 101 is the foundation for almost all building safety laws in the United States and is referenced in nearly every other title in the NFPA catalog. It is primarily a building egress document from a fire safety point of view. but other titles in the NFPA catalog reference its requirements for emergency illumination systems, among others. Public input on the 2027 Revision will be received until June 4, 2024
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
This title sets the standard of care for construction, operation and maintenance of power and telecommunication infrastructure on the supply side of the point of common coupling. It is the first title to reach for when disasters happen; with most public utilities bound to its best practice assertions by statute. Proposals for changes to appear in 2028 Edition will be received until 15 May 2024.
Electrical Resource Adequacy
Link to the April 25th Open Meeting. Previous discussions linked here center on supply, transmission and distribution reliability. Our interest lies in closing a technical gap that exists upstream from the building service point and downstream from the utility supply point. Some, not all of it, can be accomplished with titles in the IEEE catalog. Given the strength of vertical incumbents in the electric power domain, it is time to expand reliability concepts into the ASHRAE, NFPA and ICC catalogs
NESC & NEC Cross-Code Correlation
Workspace for drafting a detailed response to this 2018 statement. Open public consultation on the 2028 revision to the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code is very compressed -- only 90 days are open for a standard that is revised every 5 years. That's wrong -- and we told them so -- but we will roll with it and do the best we can to key in as many proposals before the May 15th deadline.