ALWAYS ON
Strawberry Oat Muffins
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” -- E.B. White, 1977
Amphitheaters
From from time to time -- particularly in the months of fairer weather, when many events are hosted outdoors -- we break form from the daily grind of responding to public commenting opportunities to simply enjoy these spaces
Open Air Audio
Hosting open-air celebrations such as graduations and cultural events requires sensitivity to audio standards that ensure high-quality sound and audience safety. Today we examine the standards covering sound system design, noise control, loudness levels, equipment specifications, weather and local environmental considerations.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. 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.
Bleachers, Folding Seating & Grandstands
This standard cross-references (i.e. "interacts") with related titles in the National Fire Protection Association stack and local crowd control regulations. It sets minimum requirements for means of egress facilities, stability, and safety to life and property relative to the construction, alteration, repair, operation and maintenance of new and existing temporary and permanent bleachers, folding and telescopic seating and grandstands.
Audio Standards
Education communities have an outsized share of performance theaters, lecture halls, stadiums, massive open online curricula production centers, and virtual reality learning centers that depend upon effective audio systems that are electro-technologically complex. Moreover, interoperability challenges emerge almost immediately when events are moved between venues.
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.
National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security
In in the Good Ole Days we developed safety standards for athletes. Now the spectators are at greater risk. Leviathan-scale sport enterprises in education communities are a significant profit center and a proven reserve for litigation possibilities -- hence an academic "center" developing around a familiar business model that gets perilously close to ruining the sport experience for fans and competitors alike.