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Colloquy (September)

Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about.  We do meet once a month like this.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Evensong “Last Rose of Summer”

Join us for lunch 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday at the Postma Golf Course

University of Michigan Business School Executive Dining Room (Under construction until sometime in 2027) | University of Michigan Golf Course Dining Room

If we were running that upgrade of the dining facility at the business school — instead of Sodexo — we would complete it in six months.  Alas, by some strange bureaucratic configuration, the project is taking 24 months.  Until then we meet at the Golf Course on the South Athletic Campus where, admittedly, parking is easier.

 

Retrodiction

Education & Healthcare Facility Electrotechnology Committee

 

 

Standard Norge i ny visuell profil

The Royal Court of Norway

Kong Harald V

Uni Kristiania

Nærmere Deg, Min Gud

NTNU News: Message from the Rector on the Passing of the King

Garden Quadrangle

Minneord: Universitetet i Bergen minnes Kong Harald V med dyp takknemlighet.

European monarchy is sometimes misunderstood abroad as government by hereditary rulers. In countries such as Norway, its more interesting function is almost the reverse: the family remains while governments come and go.

A king is a son before he is a sovereign, later a husband and father and, with luck, a grandfather. The public watches these passages across an entire lifetime. In return, the royal family appears at the passages of national life: schools opened, universities founded, ships launched, marriages celebrated, disasters mourned and the dead remembered.

The arrangement gives otherwise abstract ideas — nation, inheritance, duty, continuity — a human form. Haakon VII could lay a university foundation stone and, seventy-five years later, his grandson Harald could return to the same institution.

Its significance is therefore less political than temporal.  A familial monarchy asks each generation to receive something, care for it and hand it on.

Building Construction Management

Welcome to Norway Township Michigan

Holy Spirit Catholic School | Norway Michigan https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=722413066395195&set=pb.100058795255295.-2207520000&type=3

Holy Spirit Catholic School | Norway Michigan

 

Checklist for Fire Protection System Plans

Standards Wisconsin | City of Madison Checklist for Fire Protection Systems

University of Wisconsin | Dane County (Likely AI-Generated)

Sprinklers

Student Skyscrapers

“The True, the Good and the Beautiful”

Roger Scruton — The True, the Good and the Beautiful

Utah

IS BEAUTY RACIST?

In contemporary America, beauty sometimes arrives in the dock accused of carrying an old accomplice: power.

The argument has a history. Standards called beautiful — in faces, bodies, buildings, painting and language — were often established when Western institutions were overwhelmingly European. What one generation
called proportion, harmony or refinement, another may therefore suspect of being merely preference hardened into authority.

But this leaves a larger question unanswered. Abuse of a standard does not prove that standards are impossible. Nor does the history of exclusion establish that beauty itself excludes.

A cathedral, a garden, a melody or a well-made room can move people who share neither ancestry nor politics.

Perhaps beauty is troublesome precisely because it makes a larger claim: that amid our differences, some things may still be worth admiring together.

 

Brigham Young University Utah

 


 

 

Fennel Citrus Chicken Salad

Statement of Net Position 2024: $1.341B (PDF Page 24) | Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center


Sprinklers

Our engagement in standards setting for educational settlements dates back to the early 1990s at the University of Michigan, when our Safer–Simpler–Lower Cost–Longer Lasting agenda was established. Today, at the usual hour, we revisit some of those “code wins” and examine the state of the art in fire protection across the wide range of occupancy classes found in on-campus and off-campus facilities.

Consider the following questions. We have answers—or opinions—on all of them.

  1. Who owns institutional policy for the inspection, testing and maintenance of sprinkler, standpipe and fire pump systems—Facilities, EH&S, the fire marshal or some combination?
  2. To what degree should on-campus facilities maintenance extend its services to off-campus student housing, including fraternity and sorority houses?
  3. When a developer proposes a student high-rise apartment building, how much of the municipal water and fire protection infrastructure should be upgraded to assure code-required standpipe pressure?
  4. What are the labor classifications, licensing requirements and scopes of work of the various fire protection technicians?
  5. How closely are fire alarm technicians and wet- and dry-pipe sprinkler technicians coordinated?
  6. Which fire protection work should be performed by in-house staff and which should be contracted to specialty firms?
  7. How should deferred maintenance and capital renewal of aging sprinkler piping, valves, fire pumps and associated water infrastructure be prioritized against other life-safety work?
  8. Who is responsible for managing impairments when a sprinkler, standpipe or fire pump system must be taken out of service, particularly in continuously occupied buildings?
  9. How should facilities management coordinate sprinkler-system records, inspection results and correction of deficiencies with the local fire department and authority having jurisdiction?
  10. When an existing building is renovated or repurposed, who determines whether the existing fire protection infrastructure remains adequate for its new occupancy and use?
  11. How is sprinkler water managed—during testing, flushing, draining and system maintenance—and where does that water ultimately go?
  12. Would you like to see a copy of the 8′ x 8′ “Compliance Chart” developed by University of Michigan Plant Operations to coordinate the work of fire alarm and wet/dry extinguishment system technicians?

Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

 

Campus Fire Safety Month

Fireplace Lounges

Facilities Operations and Development | Office of Student Life: How to Operate a Fire Extinguisher

Standards Ohio: Fall-Winter

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Student Life Facilities

Standards Ohio

Fireplace Safety

Why Are So Many Women Not Having Children?

Inglenook

Fire and Life Safety in Stadiums

Life Safety Code

Code for Fireworks Display

Reliability Analysis for Power to Fire Pumps

Reliability Analysis for Power to Fire Pump Using Fault Tree and RBD

Robert Schuerger | HP Critical Facilities (Project Lead, Corresponding Author) 

Robert Arno | ITT Excelis Information Systems

Neal Dowling | MTechnology

Michael  A. Anthony | University of Michigan

 

Abstract:  One of the most common questions in the early stages of designing a new facility is whether the normal utility supply to a fire pump is reliable enough to “tap ahead of the main” or whether the fire pump supply is so unreliable that it must have an emergency power source, typically an on-site generator. Apart from the obligation to meet life safety objectives, it is not uncommon that capital on the order of 100000to1 million is at stake for a fire pump backup source. Until now, that decision has only been answered with intuition – using a combination of utility outage history and anecdotes about what has worked before. There are processes for making the decision about whether a facility needs a second source of power using quantitative analysis. Fault tree analysis and reliability block diagram are two quantitative methods used in reliability engineering for assessing risk. This paper will use a simple one line for the power to a fire pump to show how each of these techniques can be used to calculate the reliability of electric power to a fire pump. This paper will also discuss the strengths and weakness of the two methods. The hope is that these methods will begin tracking in the National Fire Protection Association documents that deal with fire pump power sources and can be used as another tool to inform design engineers and authorities having jurisdiction about public safety and property protection. These methods will enlighten decisions about the relative cost of risk control with quantitative information about the incremental cost of additional 9’s of operational availability.

 

 

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We want to see our Posts and Reposts together in one stream — the way they used to be — but, alas, we may be forced to adjust the manner in which our X feed interacts with our desktop web page.  For us, reposting and original posting perform different editorial functions.  For a curator, standards organization, university or news-oriented account, the sequence can itself carry meaning. Separating the pieces can destroy that sequence.

Stay tuned.

 

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