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The Standards Michigan logo — designed about ten years ago during the 25-year tenure of the original University of Michigan standards advocacy enterprise –reflects the three interest groups in the global standards system generally, and the United States specifically. The design was inspired from experience advocating safety and sustainability concepts in the National Electrical Code and coming to understand that the National Fire Protection Association — which was then, and remains so — the most rigorous standards setting organization in the United States, was having difficulty meeting the ANSI balance requirements [§2.3]. If NFPA was having trouble getting users to participate, what was it like for other ANSI accredited standards setting organizations?
At the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Joe Bhatia, Chairman of the American National Standards Institute drove home the point to the education industry which is the foundation of all industries in every nation:
Still, the private standards system, a relatively small part of the global standards system generally, is still better than having leading practice determined by politicians, their staffs, their contractors and their donors.
Touchy subject.
Join us today when we look at one or two technical committee rosters — and where in the world their meetings are held and how often. If there is time, we will review the balloting patterns on one or two technical topics which have significantly contributed to making education communities safer, simpler, lower-c0st and longer lasting. When you do that for education communities; you are effectively doing it for all other industries.
*We time-stamped the hashtag #WiseCampus on Twitter about 3 years ago; knowing that the half-life of buzzwords needed by education industry trade associations to drive conference revenue has grown shorter. The pandemic is enough of a singularity that we are inspired us to be more visible with it in our Twitter feed.
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Seismic Risk Assessment of Real Estate Portfolios
神奈川沖浪裏, ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa’
ASTM International publishes best practice titles that appear frequently in physical asset management enterprises. You find them referenced deep in risk management agreements, construction contracts and in the documents that set the standard of care in design, maintenance and operations. Now comes notification from the ASTM Committee E06 Performance of Buildings of a new standardization project to manage risk in the financial support for buildings with seismic risk — ASTM WK55885 New Practice for Seismic Risk Assessment of Real Estate Portfolios. Many large research universities have multiple properties in seismic zones. From the project prospectus:
Scope and Purpose: Real estate portfolios for mortgage lenders and property owners often include many properties distributed across many regions or multiple states. Seismic risk assessment for a group of real estate properties (a portfolio) differs from PML investigations for a single building (as treated in ASTM E2026 and E2557). The geographical diversification of the portfolio is a fundamental characteristic that differentiates it from the investigation of a single site.
Project Need: Proper treatment of the complex variables associated with seismic risk assessments at multi-property portfolios requires a new, separate standard, with an appropriate stakeholder focus, and a more complex computational approach more consistent with (probabilistic) earthquake insurance models, but accommodating structural engineering input. As such, this proposed scope for seismic risk assessments of multiproperty Portfolios will generally resemble the scope used for the single building standard (ASTM E2026), however with materially different multiproperty components within the same framework.
Stakeholders: Whole Buildings and Facilities industries
This is a new project identified in ANSI’s Project Initiation Notification System and does not yet have a draft open for public review; only a notification to assure and hasten harmonization among accredited standards developers (Link to ANSI Standards Action | PDF Page 15).
Pepperdine University California
The ASTM Subcommittee E06.25 on Whole Buildings and Facilities cancelled its October meeting in Orlando next week. No further information provided on its landing page.
We maintain the ASTM bibliography on several agendas — Sport, Risk, Prometheus, to name a few. This title is part of an expanding constellation of standards for facility management. When public consultations become available for education community asset managers we will identify them. ASTM makes it fairly easy for students and faculty to access its consensus products. CLICK HERE for more information.
Issue: [18-189]
Category: Risk Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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University of Washington Seismic Building Inspections
Recommended Practice for Prefabrication of Electrical Installations for Construction
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National Ambient Air Quality Standards
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Collision Resistant Hash Function for Blockchain in V2V Communication
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H.R. 3665 / School Violence Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2019
434 lawmakers, including 89 new freshman Members, were sworn in to the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019. Photo by Phi Nguyen.
A BILL: To establish a grant program to encourage schools to conduct independent facility security risk assessments and make hard security improvements, and for other purposes.
Distance Education & Innovation
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Updated 9/2/2020: The Department of Education has released final Distance Education and Innovation rules, which offer new flexibilities for colleges and universities that offer certain types of distance education. The rules, which are nearly unchanged from the proposed rules introduced in April 2020, bring closure to a rulemaking process that began in 2018 with ED’s announcement to convene a negotiated rulemaking session.
The Secretary proposes to amend relevant parts of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to hasten adaptation to online learning. Two-hundred forty-eight (248) comments were received. We have picked a few them for easy access here. Note the “sturm and drang” (drama) over the definition of “distance education”.
Posted April 5, 2020
The purpose of these distance education and innovation regulations is to reduce barriers to innovation in the way institutions deliver educational materials and opportunities to students, and assess their knowledge and understanding, while providing reasonable safeguards to limit the risks to students and taxpayers. Institutions of higher education may be dissuaded from innovating because of added regulatory burden and uncertainty about how the Department will apply its regulations to new types of programs and methods of institutional educational delivery.
We reviewed a few of the 248 comments received during our Federal action teleconference, We picked a few representative comments to enlighten understanding:
National Student Legal Defense Network
We are watching for further action. See our CALENDAR for the next Federal action teleconference; open to everyone.
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