ALWAYS ON
Two Campuses, One Coffeehouse
At the corner of South Main & Stadium. Founder Russ Furrha played football at Pioneer High School and later for the University of Michigan. In 2020 he returned to the corner of Main and Stadium—between the two fields where he had played—to open a coffee house intended as a gathering place for students, athletes, neighbors and alumni.
Nourriture d’automne
Today we break down the catalog for food safety in education communities; with primary attention to consultations from private standard developing organizations and federal agencies charged with food safety. We do so with sensitivity to animals and plants and sustainability of the global food supply chain. Many school cafeterias are central fixtures in the local community food supply chain.
Fine Arts 300
"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap" -- Marcel Duchamp
Commercial Kitchens
Commercial kitchens are efficient food preparation operations and are heavily regulated. Along with professional-grade equipment and ample space there are rigorous cleaning protocols and inspections of high-temperature equipment and ventilation systems. Today we examine the Complete Monograph of recent gatherings and provide a link to the 2030 I-Code Development Calendar.
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.
Cultural Resource Properties
Education communities are stewards of cultural assets that are, by definition, priceless; and whose safety features are cut from a "fabric" of about twenty best practice catalogs. Fire safety is a top-most risk to manage and one with heartbreaking results when it fails; as in Paris on April 15, 2019. The 2025 release of NFPA 909 is the current edition. Public input on the 2029 edition will be received until January 6, 2027.
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.
Museum Collections Security
Several colleges and universities are the home of materials of historic national significance. Best practice guidelines for security and sustainability for these facilities equally apply to all education communities that are stewards of objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest. Link to recent coverage of robbery at the Louvre.