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The global standards for heat tracing systems are developed by IEC Technical Committee 27. The scope of work for this committee is reproduced below:
Standardization in the field of industrial equipment and installations intended for electroheating, electromagnetic processing of materials and electroheat based treatment technologies Note: The scope of interest covers industrial installations with the use of the following equipment: – equipment for direct and indirect resistance heating; – equipment for electric resistance trace heating; – equipment for induction heating; – equipment using the effect of EM forces on materials; – equipment for arc heating, including submerged arc heating; – equipment for electroslag remelting; – equipment for plasma heating; – equipment for microwave heating; – equipment for dielectric heating; – equipment for electron beam heating; – equipment for laser heating; – equipment for infrared radiation heating. The list presents typical examples of equipment and its applications and is not exhaustive.
CLICK HERE for the link to the TC 27 Strategic Business Plan
Titles in this committee’s bibliography appears to be stable. As with all IEC titles, they are relatively narrow in scope compared with the titles promulgated by most US standards developing organizations. Our interest lies primarily in the application of this technology within and around education community buildings.
While heat tracing generally goes un-noticed it is an essential part of cold weather safety. It is wise to keep pace with its evolution with innovation in materials and controls with the lead.
We maintain this committee’s work on the standing agenda of our seasonal Snow & Ice colloquia; along with US standards developed by UL, IEEE, NEMA, NFPA, ICC, ASHRAE and a few others. We also collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee on this topic. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue [18-332]
Category: Electrical
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Lorne Clark, Jim Harvey
The architecture of electric power systems: Some special cases
Abstract Modeling of the electric system “architecture” aims to achieve performances of operation, maintenance and safety. The paper discusses about the criteria in designing the normal and special cases that need a structured architecture complying with electrical loads extensively distributed and with installation requirements proper to external stresses hazard as earthquake, fire, flood, extreme environment conditions. Also advanced architectural buildings outside of the typical and classical configurations require tailored solutions for the electrical systems. The general criterion of designing power distributions is to structure the system in two or more levels from the utility up to the terminal equipment adopting a number equal or lower of voltages. The criterion of the barycentered distribution is generally applied for defining the dimension and the voltage of each distribution level. In critical facilities, it is necessary to ensure that electrical service will be available during and after a hazardous event and so all the components should have adequate ratings and be installed in a proper manner. A special power distribution, “brush-distribution”, is suitable for the strategic buildings with higher risk for seismic event, for the photovoltaic systems against extreme temperature conditions and for the road tunnels against the fire.
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“Apology” Defense of Socrates | Plato
Accreditation is a process that involves evaluating the overall quality of an institution and its programs, including the qualifications and expertise of faculty members. Accreditation is institution-specific, and individual professors are not typically accredited separately. Instead, the accreditation process assesses the overall effectiveness of the educational institution and its ability to meet certain standards.
IRS 990 (Non-Profit Explorer: Council For Higher Education Accreditation
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation claims to be the national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation — a non-profit organization with 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.
In the United States, the accreditation of college and university programs, including the evaluation of faculty qualifications, is typically managed by regional accrediting agencies; each with hegemonic claims. They are united with a common interest in money coming from the U.S. Department of Education which controls money flow.
While the CHEA plays a role in overseeing accrediting bodies, the direct influence on the quality of facilities lies with the institutions themselves and the accrediting agencies that evaluate them.
Accreditation standards may touch upon aspects of facilities, but the day-to-day management and improvement of facilities are typically the responsibility of the individual higher education institutions.
The regional accrediting agencies in the United States include:
Deep 3D Body Landmarks Estimation for Smart Garments Design
Annalisa Baronetto, et. al
Chair of Digital Health | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Abstract: We propose a framework to automatically extract body landmarks and related measurements from 3D body scans and replace manual body shape estimation in fitting smart garments. Our framework comprises five steps: 3D scan acquisition and segmentation, 2D image conversion, extraction of body landmarks using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), back projection and mapping of extracted landmarks to 3D space, body measurements estimation and tailored garment generation. We trained and tested the algorithm on 3000 synthetic 3D body models and estimated body landmarks required for T-Shirt design. The results show that the algorithm can successfully extract 3D body landmarks of the upper front with a mean error of 1.01 cm and of the upper back with a mean error of 0.78 cm. We validated the framework the framework in automated tailoring of an electrocardiogram (ECG)-monitoring shirt based on the predicted landmarks. The ECG shirt can fit all evaluated body shapes with an average electrode-skin distance of 0.61 cm.
Narrowband Application in Intelligent Fire Protection System
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
Last update: September 30 2021
Safety and sustainability for any facility begins with an understanding of who shall occupy the built environment and what they will be doing in it. Since we are guiding young people toward their goal of building things that are useful and beautiful we select the International Building Code as a starting point for an occupancy that requires a more elevated concern for safety than a typical classroom.
2021 International Building Code Section 307 High Hazard Group H
High-hazard occupancies in each of the International Code Council code development groups A, B and C; fetch back to these classifications.
Public input for the 2024 International Building Code will be received until January 8, 2024.
For the purpose of formulating our own proposals we begin with the developmental transcripts of the previous code cycle. Recommended search terms: “Section 307”, “Studio”, “Classroom” “University” will give you a sample of the ideas in play. The complete monograph is linked below:
2021 Group A Complete Proposed Changes Monograph (2306 Pages)
2021 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING SCHEDULE September 21 – 26, 2021
Webcast: 2021 Group A Public Comment Hearings
Titles in the ICC catalog are relevant to nearly every study unit in our Syllabus. See our CALENDAR for topics and do not be shy about clicking in any business day at 16:00 UTC (11 AM ET).
Issue: [18-166]
Category: Various
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Marcelo Hirschler, Richard Robben
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