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Architecture and Aesthetic Education

October 16, 2023
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“The most enduring architectural works  are those

that speak to the timeless principles of beauty and order.”

— Roger Scruton

 


Raisin Monday

October 15, 2023
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American Battle Monuments Commission

October 13, 2023
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Health 200

October 9, 2023
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Today we break down regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities.   In large measure, the safety and sustainability agenda of the university-affiliated healthcare system infrastructure coincides with the private sector.   Accordingly, we confine our interest to systems — water, power, telecommunication and security; for example — that are unique to campus-configured, city-within-city risk aggregations.

We usually start with a scan of the following titles:

International Building Code (with particular interest in Section 308 Institutional Group I)

K-TAG Matrix for Healthcare Facilities

NFPA 70 National Electrical Code Article 517

NFPA 99 Healthcare Facilities Code

NFPA 101 Life Safety Code Chapters 18 & 19

ASHRAE 170 Ventilation of Healthcare Facilities

ASHRAE 189.3: Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable High Performance Health Care Facilities

Some of the content in the foregoing links need weekly refresh.  We’ll get to that, time permitting.

Starting 2023 we break down our coverage of standards thus:

Health 200 Clinical delivery

Health 400 Research

We will thumb through the titles published by HL7 and NSF International — both Ann Arbor-based organizations.  A surprising number of medical data companies are domiciled in Ann Arbor; not far from our own offices on State Street.   We will also see if any bills and resolutions introduced into the 117th Congress will make into public law.

Finally, we collaborate with the IEEE E&H Committee on the following IEC committee projects from IEC/TC 62 Electrical equipment in medical practice.

– Common aspects of electrical equipment used in medical practice

– Diagnostic imaging equipment

– Equipment for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiation dosimetry

– Electromedical equipment

 

As covered in previous posts, the original University of Michigan standards enterprise was one of the founding members of what has become ISO/TC 304 Healthcare organization management — following the lead set by Lee Webster at the University of Texas Medical Branch.  Since last month’s colloquium ISO TC/304 there has been a fair measure of the usual back-and-forth that we will cover in today’s colloquium.  We will examine the ideas in play in the links below today and try to organize them ahead of balloting:

ISO/TC 304 Catalog status

Legacy Workspace  (N.B. We are still in the process of uploading content onto the new University of Michigan Google Site facility)

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


Standing Agenda / Healthcare Facilities Monthly

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Journal of Healthcare Management Standards: Operational Resilience of Hospital Power Systems in the Digital Age

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Health care cost as percentage of Gross Domestic Product for six representative nations.

Association of Academic Health Centers

International Conference on Harmonization: The ICH guidelines provide guidance on the development of pharmaceuticals and related substances, including clinical trials, drug safety, and efficacy.

Animal Welfare Act and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

Good Laboratory Practice: GLP is a set of principles that ensure the quality and integrity of non-clinical laboratory studies. It ensures that data generated from non-clinical laboratory studies are reliable, valid, and accurate.

International Code Council Representation of Interests

Cultural Geography

October 8, 2023
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth

Paul Kingsbury (Simon Fraser University)

Arun Saldanha  University of Minnesota

Acquiring Editor

Bridget Barry

Cultural geography has witnessed profound changes in recent years on three interrelated levels: theoretical, methodological, and sociopolitical. In terms of theory, new conceptions of culture have emerged that examine social and geographical differentiation as involving objects, affect, nonhumans, mobility, emotion, queerness, assemblage, materiality, the unconscious, biopolitics, relationality, and intersectionality.

At the level of methodology, experiments with fieldwork and writing practices demonstrate the extent to which cultural geography has learned from and contributes to many areas of policy, science, therapy, ethics, aesthetics, and activism. Finally, in terms of the sociopolitical engagements with the world outside of academia, cultural geographers are exploring the multiple crises of energy, climate change, nationalism, (sub)urban expansion, loss of biodiversity, inequality, and fragmentation of social life under the spell of digital technologies and consumerism.

Contemporary cultural geography, a distinctive and dynamic subdiscipline in geography, is an efflorescence of many strands of research exploring cultural phenomena with the shared commitment to spatiality. Arguably, the new hopes, dangers, and intensities that are rewriting the earth are best addressed through the unique perspectives of cultural geography.

This series, Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth, provides a forum for cutting-edge research that embraces theoretical creativity, methodological experimentation, and ethico-political urgency. It provides a forum for a wide readership who desire to keep up with the innovations, debates, and agendas that define the humanities and social sciences today.

Qualität der Wasserversorgung

October 8, 2023
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