ALWAYS ON
Downtown Coffee Shop Tour
Coffee shops on the edges of university campuses are a vital part of academic communities. They serve as flexible “swing spaces” where students can study, work, or unwind on the town-gown border, As "Third Places" they are natural meeting grounds for interaction between students, construction workers and permanent residents -- the portal to the real world. More should be done to make faculty with children able (financially) to live on campuses again.
Animals 300
Today we explore recent action in the literature that informs the safety and sustainability of the built environment for animals large and small. Animals are found in education communities as pets. sporting partners, and as subjects for health care research. Human well-being runs close-coupled with animal well-being.
Higher Education Laboratories
Safety and sustainability concepts for research cuts across many disciplines. We follow action in the International Fire Code, particularly Chapter 38 which sets the standard of care for an occupancy class that is the source of significant revenue for research universities. The 2027 revision of the IBC where the revised standard of care appears will be released for public use in early 2027.
Keeping Animals Cool
"We will identify and discuss what to do with heat stress. Tips on what to do about shade and not move all your soil nutrients to the woods" -- Russ Wilson. With links to other UNL sponsored research and recommendations.
Quadrivium: Summer
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.
Border Collie Optimization
You probably do not think about the importance border collies have been to the food supply chain for centuries. Electrical engineers at research universities in India and the Czech Republic have.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Empirical Analysis of Risk for Sports Facilities
[Carryover from yesterday's session]: Farleigh Dickinson University research relevant to the step-wise upbuild of sport facilities in the education sector; now mutating into digital settlements with brisk evolution of risk aggregation.