Net Position: $393.3M (Page 13)
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Ventilation for Commercial Cooking Operations
Kitchen cooking ranks high as the causes of fire hazard in the built environment. ASHRAE 154 provides design criteria for the performance of commercial cooking ventilation systems. Education communities have hundreds of food preparation enterprises in school districts, residence halls, hospitals and athletic venues. It is not intended to circumvent any safety, health or environmental requirement; however we find a fair amount of drama regarding the competing requirements of fire safety and sustainability among subject matter experts. The stabilized version is dated 2022.
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A noteworthy title in the ASHRAE standards catalog is ASHRAE 154 Ventilation for Commercial Cooking Operations. Food preparation enterprises in school districts, residence halls, hospitals and athletic venues and central features in education communities. Access to the 2022 edition is linked below:
The purpose of ASHRAE 154 is to provide design criteria for the performance of commercial cooking ventilation systems. It covers kitchen hoods, exhaust systems and replacement air systems, It is not intended to circumvent any safety, health or environmental requirement; however we find a fair amount of drama between partisans of air movement controls and energy conservation interests. Fire safety and the sustainability advocates are well funded voices.
There are no open consultations at the moment; but you may track release of any at the link below:
Public Review Draft Standards / Online Comment Database
Titles in the ASHRAE catalog move swiftly; many of them consultations lasting less than 45 days.
Interior environmental air safety is a concern that cuts across many professional disciplines. Accordingly, we maintain this title on the standing agendas of several colloquia — Mechanical Engineering, Energy and Housing. Starting 2022 we will break out this the subject of a separate, dedicated colloquium See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [14-92]
Category: Mechanical, Electrical, Energy, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: David Conrad, Richard Robben, Larry Spielvogel
Kitchen cooking ranks high as the causes of fire hazard in the built environment. ASHRAE 154 provides design criteria for the performance of commercial cooking ventilation systems. Education communities have hundreds of food preparation enterprises in school districts, residence halls, hospitals and athletic venues. It is not intended to circumvent any safety, health or environmental requirement; however we find a fair amount of drama regarding the competing requirements of fire safety and sustainability among subject matter experts. The stabilized version is dated 2022.
Children’s Rights Management
The Icelandic Standards Body has proposed a new ISO standard: Children’s rights management (Page 45). Public comment will be received until December 10th.
Háskóli Íslands Reykjavík
Icelandic Standards Children’s Rights Management Proposal
(Our response to ANSI at the bottom of this page)
December 12, 2025
Dear Madeline, Sara and Rachel:
Hope all is well.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this proposal. This statement is our formal recommendation that ANSI find a way for the USA to participate. If you need this recommendation on our letterhead please let me know. I am happy to discuss over the phone at your convenience, also.
The recommendations listed below are informed by University of MIchigan and Standards Michigan engagement with ANSI and ISO for the better part of twenty years*. I, personally, have met with ISO staff several times in Geneva over the past 20 years and have been graciously received. I admire their processes and integrity of purpose.
Now, after having read the Business Plan, just a few bullet points:
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The boundaries between children’s rights and education will quickly become fuzzy. The length of the list of incumbent references in the Business Plan reveals a requirement for cross-cultural sensitivities.
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A US TAG will need substantial funding — usually a high bar for non-profits but less so for for-profit manufacturers, insurance companies, inspection and compliance. The mortality rate of ANSI TAGs, from our point of view, seems high.
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Viability of the project – using successful ISO work on Quality Control, for example – will have to track in regulations that fund compliance revenue. It will take decades, at best half decades, for that to happen.
Looks like a lot of meetings. We applaud Icelandic leadership.
Hope this helps // Mike
xc: Christine Fischer
* List of ISO projects The University of Michigan and Standards Michigan has been involved with since about 2010.
ISO/IEC JTC 4 Smart and sustainable cities and communities • ISO/TC 48 Laboratory equipment • ISO/TC 205 Building environment design • ISO/TC 232 Education and learning services • ISO/TC 260 Human resource management • ISO/TC 267 Facility management • ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience • ISO/TC 301 Energy management and energy savings ISO/TC 304 Healthcare organization management • ISO/TC 336 Laboratory design
• INCITS ISO/IEC/JTC electrotechnology committees
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Eurocodes
Erasmus+ EU programme for education, training, youth and sport
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The Eurocodes are ten European standards (EN; harmonised technical rules) specifying how structural design should be conducted within the European Union. These were developed by the European Committee for Standardization upon the request of the European Commission. The purpose of the Eurocodes is to provide:
- A means to prove compliance with the requirements for mechanical strength and stability and safety in case of fire established by European Union law.[2]
- A basis for construction and engineering contract specifications.
- A framework for creating harmonized technical specifications for building products (CE mark).
Since March 2010 the Eurocodes are mandatory for the specification of European public works and are intended to become the de facto standard for the private sector. The Eurocodes therefore replace the existing national building codes published by national standard bodies, although many countries have had a period of co-existence. Additionally, each country is expected to issue a National Annex to the Eurocodes which will need referencing for a particular country (e.g. The UK National Annex). At present, take-up of Eurocodes is slow on private sector projects and existing national codes are still widely used by engineers.
Eurocodes appear routinely on the standing agendas of several of our daily colloquia, among them the AEDificare, Elevator & Lift and Hello World! colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
So proud to announce the @ellisoninst is beginning construction on our new campus at the @UniofOxford and broadening our mission: Science & Engineering for Humanity. EIT develops & deploys technology in pursuit of solving four of humanity’s most challenging & enduring problems.… pic.twitter.com/vSkHWSS8EK
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REGULATION (EU) No 305/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
Global Consistency in Presenting Construction & Life Cycle Costs
Research from the World Economic Forum has shown that improvements in the design and construction process can be achieved by using international standards like ICMS to gain comparable and consistent data. ICMS provides a high-level structure and format for classifying, defining, measuring, recording, analysing and presenting construction and other life-cycle costs.
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Smart Cities: Wicked Problems
“Oxford from the River with Christ Church in the Foreground” | William Turner (1820)
Smart cities: moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2015 | “The Smart City”
Abstract. This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology to pursue efficient systems through real-time monitoring and control. Second, this definition is not new and equivalent to the idea of urban cybernetics debated in the 1970s. Third, drawing on a discussion of Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Center, I argue that viewing urban problems as wicked problems allows for more fundamental solutions than urban cybernetics, but requires local innovation and stakeholder participation. Therefore the last section describes institutions for municipal innovation and IT-enabled collaborative planning.
So proud to announce the @ellisoninst is beginning construction on our new campus at the @UniofOxford and broadening our mission: Science & Engineering for Humanity. EIT develops & deploys technology in pursuit of solving four of humanity’s most challenging & enduring problems.… pic.twitter.com/vSkHWSS8EK
— David Agus (@DavidAgus) October 15, 2023
Glühwein
The festive season at Southampton
We were pleased to welcome Minister @StephenMorganMP who visited our medical researchers and LifeLab facility to see how we are helping to improve children’s long-term health prospects.
He was joined by @LabourSatvir as they toured our facilities and met with visiting… pic.twitter.com/REMR8laY54
— University of Southampton (@unisouthampton) June 27, 2025
Russell Group Red Brick Universities
Last week we enjoyed hosting colleagues from universities in the Netherlands @tweetsunl to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using generative AI in education.
Find out more about their visit and read our principles of AI in education👇https://t.co/XI6kzLzoC3 pic.twitter.com/6IVvNFh0oh
— Russell Group (@RussellGroup) February 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Standards
U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute
The White House: ENSURING A NATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
STDMi: OMB A119 & the NTAA: How ANSI accredited standards become federal law
ANSI Response to NIST “A Plan for Global Engagement on AI Standards”
On April 29, 2024 NIST released a draft plan for global engagement on AI standards.
Comments are due by June 2. More information is available here.
Request for Information Related to NIST’s Assignments
Under Sections 4.1, 4.5 and 11 of the Executive Order Concerning Artificial Intelligence
The National Institute of Standards and Technology seeks information to assist in carrying out several of its responsibilities under the Executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence issued on October 30, 2023. Among other things, the E.O. directs NIST to undertake an initiative for evaluating and auditing capabilities relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and to develop a variety of guidelines, including for conducting AI red-teaming tests to enable deployment of safe, secure, and trustworthy systems.
Regulations.GOV Filing: NIST-2023-0009-0001_content
Browse Posted Comments (72 as of February 2, 2024 | 12:00 EST)
Standards Michigan Public Comment
Attention Is All You Need | Authors: Ashish Vaswani et al. (2017). This groundbreaking paper introduced the Transformer architecture, replacing recurrent layers with self-attention mechanisms to enable parallelizable, efficient sequence modeling. It laid the foundational blueprint for all subsequent LLMs, revolutionizing natural language processing by capturing long-range dependencies without sequential processing.
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding | Authors: Jacob Devlin et al. (2018). BERT pioneered bidirectional pre-training via masked language modeling, allowing models to understand context from both directions. As an encoder-only Transformer, it achieved state-of-the-art results on 11 NLP tasks and established the pre-training/fine-tuning paradigm that underpins bidirectional LLMs like those in search and classification.
Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models | Authors: Jordan Hoffmann et al. (2022). Known as the Chinchilla paper, it revealed that optimal LLM performance requires balanced scaling of model size and data volume (e.g., 70B parameters trained on 1.4T tokens outperform larger models with less data). This shifted research toward data-efficient training, influencing efficient LLM development.
Did you know? If you’ve seen clocks advertised to consumers as “atomic clocks,” those are actually listening to NIST radio stations’ time signals so they can count the seconds accurately. pic.twitter.com/hTTO0smikl
— National Institute of Standards and Technology (@NIST) January 31, 2024
2029 National Electrical Code Panel 2
2023 CMP-2 Public Input Report – 823 Pages
PDF Page 8: “Demonstrated Load” (STDMi proposal)
PDF Page 570: Outlets for educational occupancies (STDMi comment)
PDF Page 52: Demand factors for schools (Definition of schools/colleges should correlate with ICC and ASHRAE occupancies — our historical claim and proposals).
PDF Page 539: “Meeting rooms” should recognize school occupancies according to ICC.
2023 CMP-2 Public Comment Report
PDF Page 70: Looks like an upward rounding “error” on the lighting power density table.
PDF Page 171: Bi-directional GFCI comment from Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
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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.
Today, during our customary “Open Door” teleconference we will examine the technical concepts under the purview of Code Panel 1; among them:
Article 206 Signaling Circuits
Article 300 General Requirements for Wiring Methods and Materials
Article 590 Temporary Installations
Chapter 7 Specific Conditions for Information Technology
Chapter 9 Conductor Properties Tables
Public Input on the 2029 Edition will be received until April 9, 2026.
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
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