2023 IEC General Meeting
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Governance & Accountability of Organizations
The London School of Economics
A relatively new International Standardization Organization committee is developing a consensus product that sets the broad contours of standardization in the field of governance relating to aspects of direction, control and accountability of organizations. The foremost aim of international standardization is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services through the elimination of technical barriers to trade. We find technical barriers to trade (TBT) a growing discussion in the education facility industry; especially in research universities that deal with highly specialized products in laboratories. We see TBT issues show up purchasing regulations for federally-sponsored projects hosted on federally-sponsored facilities.
The strategic business plan of ISO/TC 309 is linked below:
Executive Summary ISO Technical Committee 309 (ISO/TC 309)
The US organization charged by the American National Standards Institute with administering the US Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) is the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS). The INCITS committee will operate under the ANSI-accredited procedures for US TAGS. Click here for more information about joining the US TAG or other INCITS committees. Jennifer Garner is listed as the contact person (jgarner@itic.org).
We do not find any public commenting opportunities on this project at the moment — January of every year tends to be a slow time in the standards world — but continue to monitor it through INCITS. We keep this committee’s work products on our International Standards monthly teleconference. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [18-157]
Category: Administration & Management, International, Finance, Academics, Public Policy
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer
Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher who advocated for **absolute sovereignty** as the only way to ensure peace and security in a commonwealth¹². He believed that people in their natural state were in a constant state of war, and that they needed to surrender their rights and freedoms to a strong ruler who could protect them from violence and chaos³⁴. Therefore, Hobbes wanted **larger** government control, as he viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security¹. He justified this by arguing that people consented to the authority of the sovereign in exchange for their safety⁵..
Thomas Hobbes’s philosophy of government is relevant today because it addresses some of the fundamental questions and challenges that modern societies face, such as:
- How to justify and limit the authority of the state over its citizens?
- How to balance the rights and duties of individuals in a social contract?
- How to deal with the threats of violence, anarchy, and civil war?
- How to promote peace, security, and cooperation among nations?
Hobbes’s answers to these questions may not be the same as ours, but they can stimulate our thinking and help us evaluate our own assumptions and arguments. Hobbes’s Leviathan is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of political philosophy in the history of Western thought, and it has inspired many thinkers and movements across different disciplines and ideologies.
“The Janitor” — A Short Documentary
The janitorial profession is not just about cleaning, it’s about creating a safe and healthy environment for people to live and work. A good janitor is like a good detective. They notice the things that others overlook, and they take care of problems before they become bigger problems.
Antitrust Regulators & Standards Development Organizations
“The Bosses of the Senate”, a cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicting corporate interests—from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes, and salt—as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber of the United States Senate. CLICK ON IMAGE
#BigAcademia
To carry out our mission to make education facilities safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer-lasting we are sensitive to the mission of all market actors in this (nearly) half-trillion (and largely, non-profit) space. Standards Michigan is a for-profit, limited liability corporation with an evolving business model that seeks to apply any tool — and invent one — to accomplish its objective. With its origin and inspiration from a University of Michigan business and finance enterprise in 1993; we are skilled in asserting the user-interest in the global standards system and have a solid and verifiable track record of success making safe and sustainable cost reductions possible. See our ABOUT.
Staying in business means staying in your lane and being sensitive to competitors who can become collaborators on specific issues. The collaboration may not last long, or be very limited in scope, but it is a credit to the global standards system that a framework for collaboration and competition is generally fixed and honored in the courts.
The education industry is a discoverer and promulgator of new knowledge. It has a social obligation to contribute to the culture of collegiality to transfer to every nation’s youth as inherited wisdom. Simultaneous competition and collaboration opens onto a minefield of sensitivities, however.
We frequently refer to incumbent stakeholders, or “verticals” when we frame public commenting opportunities presented by standards developing organizations (SDOs) of any configuration (accredited, consortia, or open source). We have a search algorithm that runs continuously and picks up commenting opportunities by SDO’s twice a day. Several times a year we update our list of education industry trade associations; most of them not standards developers*. These trade associations have constraints; the need to tip-toe around the laws that regulate their activity.
So do trade associations aligned with the academic side of the education industry, as can be observed in the December 2019 case U.S. v. National Association for College Admission Counseling. Perspective on this case appears in an article written by a partner in the first name in US standards law Gesmer Updegrove‘s blog: CONSORTIUMINFO.ORG
Antitrust Regulators Turn Attention to Standards Organizations
Russ Schlossbach | March 25, 2020
Along with the Federal Trade Commission the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. is the public enforcer of antitrust law.
* The education industry trade associations that are ANSI standards developers are the direct result of University of Michigan facility operations catalyzing balance in leading practice discovery. The primary example is Total Cost of Ownership standard developed by APPA Leadership in Education.
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Ethereum ERC-20
Much of the safety and sustainability “culture” in the education facility industry continues to be informed by fire safety and energy professionals who are funded by proven budgets. However, as the Internet of Things transformation continues the build out of synaptic connections in every dimension of the #SmartCampus we find growing interest in distributed ledger technology (DLT). In the parlance of trendsniffers, DLT is the Next Big Thing for the Internet.
As if our work in the physical spaces within and between buildings did not require enough time and resources, real asset managers now have to be mindful of DLT roll out on #SmartCampus. The rollout takes us beyond the legacy notion of artificial intelligence, beyond the cultural zietgeist of bitcoin and onto the other standardization systems where Ethereum — an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform – – is evolving continuously.
One of Ethereum’s most significant tokens — ERC-20 — has emerged as the technical standard used for all smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain for token implementation. The landing page for ERC-20 standardization activity is linked below:
Ethereum Improvement Proposals
As we have explained elsewhere on this site* open source standardization does not happen according to due processes accredited by ANSI and other national standardization bodies administered by the Geneva-based sister organizations ISO, IEC and ITU.
You may submit a proposal for improvement or comment upon the suggestions made by others at any time. That is how open-source consortia standards work.
We refer blockchain applications to the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which has strong ties to the IEEE Blockchain Initiative. We also host periodic Blockchain colloquia to keep pace. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting, open to everyone.
Issue: [Various]
Category: Blockchain, Information and Communication Technology, Finance, Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer
*We direct you to ConsortiumInfo.ORG for more complete information about open source platforms.
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Heat Tracing
“Street in Røros in Winter” 1903 Harald Sohlberg
The National Electrical Contractors Association best practice catalog features a suite of titles (National Electrical Installation Standards to meet the intent of the National Electrical Code (NEC); particularly where the NEC asserts that an installation be constructed in a “neat and workmanlike manner”. As anyone who has had to reckon with the subjectivity of the local electrical inspector knows, the determination of “neat and workmanlike” can be mighty subjective. The NECA documents are used by construction owners, specifiers, contractors and electricians to clearly illustrate the performance and workmanship standards essential for different types of electrical construction. Because the NEC is intended to be primarily a wiring safety standard, the NEIS suite is referenced throughout the National Electrical Code. Electrical shop foremen and front line electricians take note.
NECA Standards and Publication Development Home Page
One of the NECA products that may be of interest to facility managers and risk management units in the education industry this time of year is NECA 202-2013 Standard for Installing and Maintaining Industrial Heat Tracing Systems. About half of the United States deals with snow and ice half the year.
NECA 202 details procedures for the installation, testing, and documentation of electrical freeze protection and process heat tracing systems. Heat tracing cable types covered by this publication include: self-regulating, constant wattage, and zone heating cables and mineral insulated heating cables. 2 is approved as an American National Standard. The 2013 edition is the current edition and will likely need revisiting/revision/reaffirmation as an American national standard soon.
The technical literature that keeps pipes breaking and roofs failing is complicated space. A common conundrum in the construction industry is which discipline (architectural, mechanical or electrical) should specify application of this technology; especially in value-engineering negotiations when each discipline is trying to reduce its unit costs. Control and communication system add another layer of complexity. Several consensus standards occupy this technology; cross referencing one another and leaving gaps
ASCE 7-10 Snow Load Provisions
UL 515 Standard for Electrical Resistance Trace Heating for Commercial Applications
IEC 62395 Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications
National Electrical Code Article 427
There are codes and standards developed by ASTM International, the International Code Council and ASHRAE International that set the standard of care for pipe insulation for energy conservation purposes but we will deal with the interdependence of standard of care set by those documents in a separate post. Organizations such as FM Global typically derive their customer recommendations from consensus standards developers.
Because heat tracing is a cross-disciplinary technology we maintain it on the standing agenda of several colloquia: Power, Water, Bucolia, Snow & Ice and Mechanical See our CALENDAR for the next meeting; open to everyone. You may obtain an electronic copy of this standard from neis@necanet.org. Communicate directly with Aga Golriz, (301) 215-4549, Aga.golriz@necanet.org.
Participation by the public in reviewing other titles in the NEIS bibliography is welcomed and begins at the page linked below:
Issue: [19-24]
Category: Architectural, Electrical, Facility Management, Mechanical, Risk Management,
Colleagues: Eric Albert, Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben, Larry Spielvogel
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RESEARCHGATE: HEAT-TRACING OF PIPING SYSTEMS TYPES OF HEAT-TRACING SYSTEMS
With some 36 million square feet under management — and one of the largest campuses in the United States exposed to extreme low temperatures — building industry professionals at the University of Michigan have some experience managing the competing requirements of safety and economy in heat tracing technology.
Electric Vehicle-to-Home Emergency Power System
Reliable and Economy Modes of Operation for Electric Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) System
Mahdi Shafaati Shemami, et al
Department of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University
Abstract: In developing countries load shedding for hours is very common. Generally, a small power backup source is utilized for necessary loads (emergency lights and emergency loads like fan and small cooler). Nowadays, grid-connected solar inverters that installed on the roof are widely utilized for backup power source in urban cities. Penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) are increasing, so charging of EVs battery through grid increase power grid instability. Solar PV based charging of EVs can be a solution for this problem. However, in the case of a charged battery condition, whenever battery has charged through the grid, the available power from solar PV modules remain unutilized and wasted. The proposed controllers modify the regular, low-cost home inverter into a PV grid-connected inverter that it also has the ability to utilize EV battery energy. It has better control strategy that guarantees the reliability of the power supply. Economy mode and reliable mode has been developed to improve standby power supply, it also maximizes utilization of PV energy. In addition, the customers, don’t need to buy a new expensive solar grid-connected inverter or any other devices to charge the EV battery if they already have a home-based inverter.
Relevant Titles
“Allegoria ed effetti del Buono e del Cattivo Governo” 1338 Ambrogio Lorenzetti
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life
so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert
Education communities are the foundation of every industry in every nation. The United States should have a voice in the development of international management and technology standards that originate from the global standards bodies in Geneva — International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and the International Telecommunications Union. At the moment the voice of US education communities is relatively weak; even with the sustained involvement of Standards Michigan beginning with the original University of Michigan standards enterprise described in our ABOUT.*
Owing to relationships with scholars and researchers in other nations that is common in academic communities we collaborate with many universities in other nations. We feature their research when appropriate; all of it worthy of admiration. Our primary involvement is with US Technical Advisory Groups administered by the American National Standards Institute. Of the projects listed below we are actively involved in meetings, gathering data and marking up drafts. There are other projects that are nascent, dormant, rejected , abandoned or consolidated with other titles. If the basis of the standardization project has merit; the idea will ultimately find its proper place.
Owing to copyright restrictions we are unable to post specifics on many of them but we are happy to provide a status check during our periodic Global standards colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
*S. Joe Bhattia, Chairman of the American National Standards Institute, describes that condition at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business:
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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