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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..."

Sep 02, 2026

Ideal Financial Year

Sometimes there are no standards; only comparisons.  An examination of representative essential works (infrastructure) charges that appear on student invoices.

Sep 02, 2026

Ædificare & Utilization

Educational facility construction is the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual motion machine. In the Monthly Construction Spend report we find confirmation that -- at a rate of $136B annually as of July -- US education industry is the largest construction market in the world. With upwards of 45 million square feet the University of Michigan has the largest measure of square footage of any campus in the world; hence our 35+ year interest in managing cost through the global standards system.

Sep 02, 2026

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.

Sep 02, 2026

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.

Sep 02, 2026

Bulletin Board

Curated updates posted by global standards developers.

Sep 02, 2026

Call for Committees

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Sep 02, 2026

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.

Sep 02, 2026

PSDM-904650

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.

Sep 02, 2026
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