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Fennel Citrus Chicken Salad
The Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center is in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, part of the University's College of Health and Human Sciences.
Masonry
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun." (Frank Lloyd Wright). Today we explore best practice in the construction of brick in education settlements -- the world's oldest construction material.
Bollards & Sidewalk
Pedestrian bollards protect walkways from vehicle intrusion, guide foot traffic, snow plows and can provide heating and illumination. They should be positioned in front of energy utility services (such as natural gas and electrical power switchgear). at sidewalk entrances, crosswalks, and near pedestrian-heavy zones. Join us today at 15:00 UTC as we examine the best practice literature on this essential campus element.
7th Edition (2018): Geometric Design of Highways & Streets
The last reorganization of the Green Book that we can track emphasizes transportation of people, rather than focusing primarily on moving vehicles. A new chapter discusses multimodal level of service and puts greater emphasis on lower-speed, walkable, urban zones in which new mobility technologies are emerging such as micro-scooters.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are where many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Brickwork
Best practice for both masonry and brickwork is found in Chapter 21: Masonry, linked here in its entirety for its use in today's Masonry colloquium. Group B Committee Action Hearings on this standard and others will be hosted from Cleveland, October 22-30.
Fireplace Brickwork
Founded in 1904 in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA the ACI has the most widely adopted catalog of consensus-based standards for design, construction, educational programs, certification programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design, construction, and materials, who share a commitment to pursuing the best use of concrete -- the most widely used construction material in the world.
Current Issues and Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. The 2026 National Electrical Code where sit on CMP-15 overseeing health care facility electrical issues should be released for public use any day now. We have one electrical proposal on the agenda of the International Code Council's Group B Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland in October.
Concrete Matters
"Regular concrete has a number of problems that we did not realize as an engineering community 50 years ago. Our infrastructure has deteriorated at a faster rate than we thought" -- Professor Sherif-El-Tawil, Civil and Environmental Engineering.