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Push-Cart Cold Brew
"When Samuel Sveen settled in Bloomington, he channeled his passion for brewing coffee into a new business. He opened the bright-yellow, can't-miss-it Uel Zing cold-brew coffee cart..."
Ideal Financial Year
Sometimes there are no standards; only comparisons. Today at the usual hour we examine representative essential works (infrastructure) charges that appear on student invoices. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Ædificare & Utilization
Essential-works construction is the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual-motion machine. In the Monthly Construction Spend report, the $136 billion spend rate makes it the largest market in the world. With upwards of 45 million square feet, the University of Michigan has more square footage than any other campus in the world; hence our 35+-year interest in managing costs through the global standards system.
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.
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. 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.
Progress Sentinels
We collect a sample of cameras that follow construction from start to finish. Also accessible at the upper right of our Home Page.
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.
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Click here for a holding stream of content that we repost but does not appear combined with our original post on on our Timeline. Loss of this combined capability for normal X Premium clients in good standing has been tracking on Reddit since early August. Posts and Reposts together is essential to our business model but, alas, we may be forced to adjust to the way X wants to provide its services. Stay tuned.