ALWAYS ON
Ploughman’s Lunch
Found along the English foodway of simple cold meals built around bread, cheese and preserved foods. Its ingredients reflect the farmhouse and require little preparation and no cooking. Carried into the fields for the working day.
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.
$3 Billion Miami-Dade County Campus
First: Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion Johns Hopkins gift in 2018. Second: Phil and Penny Knight's $2 billion gift to Oregon Health & Science University in 2025. Now comes a $3 billion Ken Griffin gift -- $1 billion to strengthen CMU in Pennsylvania and $2 billion to build a new CMU campus in Florida -- the largest in United States history.
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.
Gallery: School Bond Referenda
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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.
Declining Enrollment
A list of school district facility curtailment -- on a day when we review the U.S. Census Bureau Construction Report when the data shows educational facility construction increasing.