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Ask a Professor: Pumpkin Spiced Latte
Karthikeya Easwar, Associate Teaching Professor in the McDonough School of Business, explains the history and appeal of the ubitquitus seasonal favorite.
Elevators & Lifts
Education communities--specifically research colleges and universities--are stewards of 100's of elevators. The first cost of building them--$50,000 to $150,000 per floor-- is outpaced by the life cycle cost of maintaining licensed mechanics, inspection fees and software upgrades. Today we update our understanding of the moment in regulations; taking time to examine state-level exceptions and adaptations of generally accepted best practice.
Methods of Building Measurement
To paraphrase Lord Kelvin: "If you can measure it you can improve it". From this inspiration BOMA initiated the process of revising its square-footage measurement standard for retail spaces; fairly common now within publicly owned education facilities such as student unions, hospitals and athletic venues. Getting square-footage right is essential for securing an organization's sustainability and "green" claims for example. With links to 2024 title updates.
Postsecondary Education Facilities Inventory & Classification Manual
NCES activities are designed to address high priority education data needs; provide consistent, reliable, complete, and accurate indicators of education status and trends; and report timely, useful, and high quality data to the U.S. Department of Education, the Congress, the states, other education policymakers, practitioners, data users, and the general public.
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.
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.
Traditional Irish Soda Bread
"Follow along with Darina making Traditional Irish White Soda Bread." With links to detailed variants; among them an accepted American Emigrant variant.
print (“Hello World!”)
Today at the usual hour we sort through consultations on titles relevant to our 'raison d'être' of making the essential works of educational settlements Safer-Simpler-Lower Cost-Longer-Lasting. We do so with sensitivity to the settlements in other geographies where thousands of like-minded organizations also provide credentialing, instruction, research, a home for local fine arts and sport.