434 lawmakers, including 89 new freshman Members, were sworn in to the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019. Photo by Phi Nguyen.
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for drinking water fountain replacement in playgrounds and parks, and for other purposes.
The Playground is officially OPEN! #RebelPride 🛝 pic.twitter.com/nkR2ebFqc3
— Dr. Kate Koch (@kwasnykate) October 10, 2023
While the students have been enjoying the playground since school began, it was a celebration getting to recognize everyone who made it happen. Thank you to Play! at Pierce, our donors, Rep. Stava-Murray, and the entire community for all of their efforts! #WEarePD58 #DG58Pride pic.twitter.com/eNZdPmjaI2
— Dr. Leland Wagner (@LWagnerDG58) November 8, 2023
In the soft light of a Notting Hill afternoon in 1958, the playground of a local day nursery becomes something closer to a sanctuary. Rows of small camp beds and folded rugs are neatly arranged beneath the open sky, each one cradling a sleeping child. The air carries the scent of… pic.twitter.com/L6i0HmcMmI
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) July 23, 2025
A new playground, a new school year, and a new 3R! That’s what I call AMAZING! 🍎🎉🛝#happyfirstdayofschool pic.twitter.com/kRYgn661HY
— Christine Reynolds (@5thgradeplaid) August 25, 2023
“Being an artist means not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast.”
Deutsches Institut für Normung
“The entropy of a message source measures the average amount
of information produced by that source.”
Claude Shannon (University of Michigan, B.A. 1936)
A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948
Today at the usual time we run a status check on the technical literature informing best practice for remote/hybrid working, teaching, learning and lively art performance. We start with the following incumbent standards developers primarily involved with hardware interoperability permanently installed in the built environment (classrooms, studios, auditoriums and the like) for which stewards of physical assets are responsible.
We generally avoid spending any time on content creation and distribution by United States propaganda outlets – which includes the vast network of national public radio stations domiciled in educational settlements (and partially funded by the US federal government).
ASTM International
ATIS
Audio Engineering Society
BICSI International
Entertainment Services and Technology Association
Illumination Engineering Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
International Code Council | ICC G2 Guideline for Acoustics
International Telecommunications Unions
National Fire Protection Association | National Electrical Code Chapters 5 through 8
National Standards for Quality Online Courses
Society for Imaging Science & Technology
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Telecommunication Industry Association
Representative Specifications:
Washington University Audio/Visual & Multimedia Room Specifications
Indiana University Learning Spaces Design – Audio Visual Standards
University of Nebraska: Audio Visual Systems General Standards & Guidelines
As time permits we will review the blistering pace of development in platforms for teleconferencing, security, presentation software, academic content management systems — a domain moving too quickly for our resources but important to understand and navigate.
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory”
— Oscar Wilde (‘The Critic as Artist’ 1891)
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Campus Tour | Standards New Jersey
It’s not too late to register for Fall Semester 2021! Our later starting courses begin October 26th and run through December 15th.
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— Mercer County Community College (@MercerCollege) October 12, 2021
2025 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES | Complete Monograph 2630 Pages
2024 GROUP A PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES | Complete Monograph 2658 Pages
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
“View from the Ancient Theater in Taormina to Mount Etna” c. 1880 Carl Wuttke
Safety and sustainability for any facility begins with an understanding of who shall occupy it. University settings, with mixed-use phenomenon arising spontaneously and temporarily, present challenges and no less so in square-footage identified as performing arts facilities. Education communities present the largest installed base of mixed use and performing arts facilities. A distinction is made between supervised occupants that are in secondary schools (generally under age 18) and unsupervised occupants that are in university facilities (generally above age 18).
First principles regarding occupancy classifications for performing arts facilities appear in Section 303 of the International Building Code Assembly Group A-1. The public edition of the 2021 IBC is linked below:
2024 IBC Chapter 3: Occupancy Classification and Use
Each of the International Code Council code development groups A, B and C; fetch back to these classifications. You can sample the safety concepts in play with an examination of the document linked below:
2019 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE GROUP B I-CODES
2019 GROUP B PUBLIC COMMENT AGENDA
Each of the foregoing documents are lengthy so we recommend using search terms such as “school”, “college”, ‘”university”, “auditorium”, “theater”, “children”, “student” to hasten your cut through it.
We find continuation of lowering of the lighting power densities as noteworthy. Technical committees assembled and managed by the International Code Council, the American Society of Heating & Refrigeration Engineers and the Illumination Engineering Society are leaders in developing consensus products that drive the LED illumination transformation.
The revision schedule for the next tranche of ICC titles that are built upon the foundation of the IBC is linked below:
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
We encourage experts in education communities — facility managers, research and teaching staff, architectural and engineering students — to participate directly in the ICC Code Development process at the link below:
https://www.iccsafe.org/cdpaccess/
We reserve a place on the agenda of our standing Lively 200 colloquia on this topic. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [18-166]
Category: Architectural, Healthcare Facilities, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
The International Code Council (ICC) develops its codes and standards through a consensus-driven process. The ICC Code Development Process follows these major stages:
Code Change Proposal Submission
Stakeholders (e.g., government officials, industry professionals, and the public) submit proposals to modify existing codes or introduce new provisions.
Committee Action Hearing (CAH)
Expert committees review and evaluate submitted proposals.
Public testimony is allowed, and committees vote on whether to approve, disapprove, or modify the proposals.
Public Comment Period
After the CAH, the public can submit comments or suggest modifications to the committee’s decisions.
These comments help refine the proposed changes before final voting.
Public Comment Hearing (PCH)
ICC members discuss and vote on public comments.
This step ensures that all voices are heard and debated before finalizing changes.
Online Governmental Consensus Vote (OGCV)
Governmental members vote on the final code changes electronically.
Only governmental voting members (e.g., code officials) participate in this stage to ensure the process remains unbiased.
Publication of New Code Edition
Approved code changes are incorporated into the next edition of the ICC codes.
The ICC updates its codes every three years (e.g., 2021, 2024, 2027 editions).
This structured process ensures that ICC codes remain comprehensive, up-to-date, and responsive to industry needs while maintaining safety and functionality.
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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