ALWAYS ON
Vigilante Coffee
The Big 10 Network features stories about small business start ups on the periphery of its member universities; this one at 8200 Baltimore Avenue in College Park.
The University Farm as Micro-City
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Zoning
Today we examine standards catalogs relevant to the planning, construction and management of the built environment of education communities nested within human settlements characterized by a high population density, extensive infrastructure, and various economic, social, and cultural activity. (With links to previous coverage of water, transportation, outdoor illumination and related town-gown agonistes)
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC.
International Zoning Code
"The purpose of the code is to establish minimum requirements to provide a reasonable level of health, safety, property protection and welfare by controlling the design, location, use or occupancy of all buildings and structures through the regulated and orderly development of land and land uses within this jurisdiction...."
Bulletin Board
Curated list of open consultations and calls for information from state, federal and global agencies.
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.
NESC & NEC Cross-Code Correlation
Today at the usual hour we will review the 50-odd safety and sustainability oproposals we submitted to the IEEE and NFPA earlier this month. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Language 600
AI does not merely follow language standards through widespread daily use: it helps create them We explore English as a common carrier for technical language in order to inform our response to a NIST Call for Letters of Interest.