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High Altitude Cinnamon Rolls & Cowboy Coffee
"These soft and sweet baked rolls make a great breakfast. Tested at high altitudes, they will turn out great across Wyoming." -- UWoExtension
Campus Surveillance
Coordinated with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Committee standing meeting today, we pull together best practice in the systems -- the people and the technologies -- that sustain campus safety and stability. Join us at 16:00 UTC with login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Case Study: Center Grove Community School Corporation Security
"This Greenwood Indiana community started the school year with a new turnkey safety system coordinated with financing of the new Emergency Operations Center. Seven-hundred cameras will scan nearly every square foot of the facilities built for ~8000 students, faculty and staff...."
Elevator Safety Code
Elevators, lifts and moving walks make the urban environment possible. Many large educational settlements have 100 to 1000 elevators to operate and maintain according to the minimum standards set in the A17.X tranche of titles. Today we explore the reasons and the remedies for elevator passengers trapped in elevators during power outages -- with consideration for passenger need to communicate with the outside world. Public consultation on redlines run at a brisk pace.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where 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 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 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 3
The University of Michigan has supported the voice of the United States education facility industry since 1993 -- the second longest tenure of any voice in the United States. That voice has survived several organizational changes but remains intact and will continue its Safer-Simpler-Lower Cost-Longer Lasting advocacy on Code Panel 3 in the 2029 Edition. Public Input will be received until April 9, 2026.
Watch & Night Operations
This group -- the "cat-eye shift" -- keeps campus secure and sustainable while most everyone is asleep or home for the holidays.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'