ALWAYS ON
Well Water
Given the gift of another day the first activity of anyone is interacting with fresh water. Approximately 25% of households in the state of Michigan rely on private well water as their primary drinking water source and it must not freeze in the pipes.
Colloquy (June)
Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about. We do this once every month. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Summer Hours at our Eisenhower Parkway Office: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Join us for lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday of the month at the University of Michigan Golf Course Restaurant.
Standards June
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
Emergency & Standby Power Systems
Why do people still get stuck in elevators during power outages? While state adaptations of accredited building codes determine backup generator policy for elevators; best wiring and control practice for getting power to elevators reliably is asserted in NFPA 110 and 111 now accepting comments on the Second Draft of the 2028 Revision until March 31, 2027.
2025-2026 Student Paper Competition
ANSI's Annual Student Paper Competition with the topic ""Imagine a World Without Standards or Rules—What Would Happen?" closed on June 5th. The winning papers will be announced sometime in August; with the awards to be presented at World Standards Week, this year at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, July 28-31.
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.
Innovation and Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence
In May of this year NIST renamed and expanded its former "AI Safety Institute Consortium" into the NIST "Artificial Intelligence Consortium". This shift moves the focus from primarily safety toward AI measurement, innovation, adoption, and U.S. competitiveness. NIST is actively seeking new members. Participation involves a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Letters of interest are accepted on an ongoing basis.