Construction keeps on rocking and rolling on our campus. Soon, music will be filling the halls of the Surack-Sweetwater Music Industry Building. pic.twitter.com/us9Ppj7fNO
— Purdue University Fort Wayne (@purduefw) June 4, 2026
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Statement of Financial Position 2024: Net assets: £745,070
…’UAL is Europe’s largest specialist university for art, design, fashion, communication, and performing arts. It ranks 2nd globally in Art and Design (QS World University Rankings 2023). Formed in 2004 from historic colleges dating back to the 19th century, UAL is a collegiate federation of six renowned institutions:
- Camberwell College of Arts
- Central Saint Martins (famous for alumni like Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney)
- Chelsea College of Arts
- London College of Communication
- London College of Fashion
- Wimbledon College of Arts
With over 18,000 students from more than 130 countries, UAL offers pre-degree to postgraduate courses, fostering innovation through professional practitioners as tutors. Its graduates dominate creative industries, including Turner Prize winners and British Designer of the Year recipients. Campuses span London, immersing students in the world’s creative capital…’
Today, we can only imagine the peace of mind within a 2-Yr-Old farmer in 1960s Britain. ♥️⏳️ pic.twitter.com/qG4I7GV2IK
— Vinnie Sullivan (@VinnieSull1van) February 27, 2026
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Sunset Moment, Kaiwen Yi, 2025 MA Illustration, | Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
“All Creatures of Our God and King”
An English paraphrase of the Canticle of the Sun (or Laudes Creaturarum), written by St. Francis of Assisi in 1224–1225: Francis composed the poem in Umbrian Italian while recovering from illness, praising God through all creation. William H. Draper translated and adapted it into English in 1919 for a children’s Whitsuntide festival in Leeds, England. The 1623 tune Lasst uns erfreuen was paired with it, giving the hymn its majestic, joyful character.
It is widely sung in Protestant and Catholic churches, especially at Easter, harvest festivals, and creation-themed services. It celebrates God’s glory reflected in nature and calls all creatures—sun, moon, wind, water, fire, and humanity—to praise their Creator.
HYMNARY.ORG: Christendom’s most comprehensive index of hymns: Grand Rapids Michigan
Resources for Ash Wednesday (coming on March 6), including hymns hand-selected by Hymnary staff. https://t.co/5ZxDgzxMmC pic.twitter.com/IvnOjAqzUw
— Hymnary.org (@hymnary) February 28, 2019
Late Night Breakfast
2025 Net Position: 1.992B (Page 4) $ Minnesota State System Capital Asset Procedure
Despite its official mission branding statements that emphasize academic excellence, intellectual curiosity, and diversity, the sub rosa of Carleton College is ferociously liberal Democrat — something like 7:1 — which challenges claims in its “marketing materials”. One can trace the origin of its political homophily with the Democratic Party’s roots the 1849 with the territory’s founding and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party emerging from 19th- and 20th-century immigrant settlements. Scandinavian (especially Finnish) and other European immigrants settled rural and Iron Range areas, bringing cooperative traditions, socialist ideas, and a strong emphasis on education and mutual aid. They established consumer cooperatives, workers’ halls, and educational programs promoting literacy, labor organizing, and progressive values (which, to the far less ferocious partisans of limited central government, were regressive and contradictory to the American ethos of self-reliance). These networks fueled a powerful third party backed by farmers, miners, and urban workers. A cacophony of splinter groups eventually merged to forge Minnesota’s dominant expansive government ethos, blending agrarian populism, labor activism, and community organizing. In the fullness of time the citizens of Minnesota effectively recreated the restrictive constitutional monarchies its founding stock sought to leave behind. Way up there in the snowy Great Plains of America Carleton College remains one of the most ferociously liberal Democrat colleges in the United States and among the most beautiful (Skinner Memorial Chapel).
Relata: Universities Are Creating a New Dark Age | Lord Nigel Bigger
Help us wish a HUGE congratulations to each of our D-I and D-III Ultimate teams—@SyzygyUltimate, @cutrules, @eclipsethedisc, and @chop_rocks—because ALL FOUR are going to nationals this year!! We’re so excited to cheer them on in Wisconsin next month. Good luck, Carls! 💛🥏💙 pic.twitter.com/lVXBDahsUN
— Carleton College (@CarletonCollege) April 29, 2024
Disaster 500
Thinking about how that groundhog lied to us 🤨🤨🤨 pic.twitter.com/ZQOzzteCzs
— Penny Kmitt (@pennylikeacoin) April 4, 2024
During today’s session we approach disaster avoidance, management and recovery literature from a different point of view than our customary approach — i.e. what happens when, a) there is failure to conform to the standard, b) there is no applicable standard at all. This approach necessarily requires venturing into the regulatory and legal domains. We will confine our approach to the following standards development regimes:
- De facto standards: These are standards that are not officially recognized or endorsed by any formal organization or government entity, but have become widely adopted by industry or through market forces. Examples include the QWERTY keyboard layout and the MP3 audio format.
- De jure standards: These are standards that are formally recognized and endorsed by a government or standard-setting organization. Examples include the ISO 9000 quality management standard and the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard.
- Consortium standards: These are standards that are developed and maintained by a group of industry stakeholders or organizations, often with the goal of advancing a particular technology or product. Examples include the USB and Bluetooth standards, which are maintained by the USB Implementers Forum and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, respectively.
- Open standards: These are standards that are freely available and can be used, implemented, and modified by anyone without restriction. Examples include the HTML web markup language and the Linux operating system.
- Proprietary standards: These are standards that are owned and controlled by a single organization, and may require payment of licensing fees or other restrictions for use or implementation. Examples include the Microsoft Office document format and the Adobe PDF document format.
- ANSI accredited standards developers with disaster management catalogs
We may have time to review State of Emergency laws on the books of most government agencies; with special attention to power blackout disasters.
- Tornadoes Are Deadly: These New Building Codes Will Save Lives
- Cases involving the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment might be relevant when government actions related to natural disasters affect private property rights.
- National Regulatory Research Institute: Should Public Utilities Compensate Customers for Service Interruptions?
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print(“Disaster”) pic.twitter.com/Lu6Dw3bARq— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) November 15, 2021
Stalking the Black Swan
Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility
Kenneth A. Posner
Storm Shelters
Current Code Development Cycle: 2024–2026
March 12, 2026
2024 GROUP A PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES
“Landscape between Storms” 1841 Auguste Renoir
When is it ever NOT storm season somewhere in the United States; with several hundred schools, colleges and universities in the path of them? Hurricanes also spawn tornadoes. This title sets the standard of care for safety, resilience and recovery when education community structures are used for shelter and recovery. The most recently published edition of the joint work results of the International Code Council and the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute SEI-7 is linked below:
2020 ICC/NSSA 500 Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters.
Given the historic tornados in the American Midwest this weekend, its relevance is plain. From the project prospectus:
The objective of this Standard is to provide technical design and performance criteria that will facilitate and promote the design, construction, and installation of safe, reliable, and economical storm shelters to protect the public. It is intended that this Standard be used by design professionals; storm shelter designers, manufacturers, and constructors; building officials; and emergency management personnel and government officials to ensure that storm shelters provide a consistently high level of protection to the sheltered public.
This project runs roughly in tandem with the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute SEI-17 which has recently updated its content management system and presented challenges to anyone who attempts to find the content where it used to be before the website overhaul. In the intervening time, we direct stakeholders to the link to actual text (above) and remind education facility managers and their architectural/engineering consultants that the ICC Code Development process is open to everyone.
The ICC receives public response to proposed changes to titles in its catalog at the link below:
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
You are encouraged to communicate with Kimberly Paarlberg (kpaarlberg@iccsafe.org) for detailed, up to the moment information. When the content is curated by ICC staff it is made available at the link below:
We maintain this title on the agenda of our periodic Disaster colloquia which approach this title from the point of view of education community facility managers who collaborate with structual engineers, architects and emergency management functionaries.. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting, open to everyone. 
Readings:
FEMA: Highlights of ICC 500-2020
ICC 500-2020 Standard and Commentary: ICC/NSSA Design and Construction of Storm Shelters
Students presenting posters on how to be prepared for natural disasters and emergencies #onedistrictoneteam #D59learns @CCSD59 @D59Byrd pic.twitter.com/NOsa3ekkTD
— Mrs. Darga (@MrsDarga) September 19, 2023
“Tornado over St. Paul” 1893 Julius Holmhttps://t.co/EzXTdOrQWZ
Minneapolis Institute of Arts@artsmia pic.twitter.com/tKWTtqJxO3— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) May 6, 2021
Risk Assessment in Emergency Facilities
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan
HP Critical Facilities Services | Bethesda, Maryland
Mark Beirne
DLB Associates | Chicago, Illinois
Abstract. The key feature of this article is the application of quantitative method for evaluating risk and conveying the results into a power system design that is scaled according to hazards present in any given emergency management district. These methods employ classical lumped parameter modeling of power chain architectures and can be applied to any type of critical facility, whether it is a stand-alone structure, or a portion of stand-alone structure, such as a police station or government center. This article will provide a risk assessment roadmap for one of the most common critical facilities that should be designated as COPS per NEC 708-a 911 call center. The existing methods of reliability engineering will be used in the risk assessment.
* Robert Schuerger is the lead author on this paper
CLICK HERE to order complete article: IEEE Industry Applications Magazine | Volume 19 Issue 5 • Sept.-Oct.-2013
Critical Operations Power Systems
The original University of Michigan codes and standards enterprise advocated actively in Article 708 Critical Operations Power Systems (COPS) of the National Electrical Code (NEC) because of the elevated likelihood that the education facility industry managed assets that were likely candidates for designation critical operations areas by emergency management authorities.
Because the NEC is incorporated by reference into most state and local electrical safety laws, it saw the possibility that some colleges and universities — particularly large research universities with independent power plants, telecommunications systems and large hospitals — would be on the receiving end of an unfunded mandate. Many education facilities are identified by the Federal Emergency Management Association as community storm shelters, for example.
As managers of publicly owned assets, University of Michigan Plant Operations had no objection to rising to the challenge of using publicly owned education facilities for emergency preparedness and disaster recovery operations; only that meeting the power system reliability requirements to the emergency management command centers would likely cost more than anyone imagined — especially at the University Hospital and the Public Safety Department facilities. Budgets would have to be prepared to make critical operations power systems (COPS) resistant to fire and flood damages; for example.
Collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Industrial Applications Society began shortly after the release of the 2007 NEC. Engineering studies were undertaken, papers were published (see links below) and the inspiration for the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee developed to provide a gathering place for power, telecommunication and energy professionals to discover and promulgate leading practice. That committee is now formally a part of IEEE and collaborates with IAS/PES JTCC assigned the task of harmonizing NFPA and IEEE electrical safety and sustainability consensus documents (codes, standards, guidelines and recommended practices.
Transcripts of 2026 Revision:
https://t.co/chd9RJVc7G
print(“Disaster”) pic.twitter.com/Lu6Dw3bARq— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) November 15, 2021
The transcript of NEC Code Making Panel 13 — the committee that revises COPS Article 708 every three years — is linked below:
NEC CMP-13 First Draft Balloting
NEC CMP-13 Second Draft Balloting
The 2023 Edition of the National Electrical Code does not contain revisions that affect #TotalCostofOwnership — only refinement of wiring installation practices when COPS are built integral to an existing building that will likely raise cost. There are several dissenting comments to this effect and they all dissent because of cost. Familiar battles over overcurrent coordination persist.
Our papers and proposals regarding Article 708 track a concern for power system reliability — and the lack of power — as an inherent safety hazard. These proposals are routinely rejected by incumbent stakeholders on NEC technical panels who do not agree that lack of power is a safety hazard. Even if lack of power is not a safety hazard, reliability requirements do not belong in an electrical wiring installation code developed largely by electricians and fire safety inspectors. The IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee (IEEE E&H) maintains a database on campus power outages; similar to the database used by the IEEE 1366 committees that develop reliability indices to enlighten public utility reliability regulations.
Public input on the 2026 revision to the NEC will be received until September 7th. We have reserved a workspace for our priorities in the link below:
Colleagues: Robert Arno, Neal Dowling, Jim Harvey
LEARN MORE:
Consuting-Specifying Engineer | Risk Assessments for Critical Operations Power Systems
Electrical Construction & Maintenance | Critical Operations Power Systems
Facilities Manager | Critical Operations Power Systems: The Generator in Your Backyard
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— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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