H.R. 1691 / No Federal Funds Without the American Flag Act

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H.R. 1691 / No Federal Funds Without the American Flag Act

August 11, 2020
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114th United States Congress

A BILL: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit an institution of higher education located in the United States from participating in student assistance programs under title IV of such Act if the institution bans the display of the flag of the United States on its campus.

International Energy Conservation Code / Electrical

August 11, 2020
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Electrical Building World’s Columbian Exposition | Chicago (1892)

The current version of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), available for public access, is linked below:

2018 International Energy Conservation Code

The IECC at is widely incorporated by reference into federal, state and local energy conservation legislation (which then finds its away into facility design guidelines in the education industry).  For most of last year were were tracking candidate changes for the 2021 revision; with special attention to electrical energy concepts; easy enough to do.  We find the word “electrical” appeared 163 times in the transcript of proposed changes; linked below (730 pages).

2019 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES ALBUQUERQUE COMMITTEE ACTION HEARINGS

For example:

CE108-19 | Data Centers

CE111-19*, et al | Fault Detection

CE113-19 | HVAC equipment

CE136-19 | Fan Nameplate Electrical Power & Fan Efficiency

CE166-19, et. al* | Occupancy Sensors

CE174-119, et. al*  | Lighting and Controls

CE212-19 | Elevator regenerative power & voltage drop (ON THE AGENDA OF THE MONTHLY ELEVATOR & ESCALATOR MEETING)

CE213-19 | Escalator & moving walk regenerative power (ON THE AGENDA OF THE MONTHLY ELEVATOR & ESCALATOR MEETING)

CE214-19 | Include customer-owned service conductors in the 5 percent voltage drop limit identified in the National Electrical Code

CE215-19*, et al | More electrical power monitoring hardware

CE216-19*. et al | More automatic receptacle control hardware

CE217-19 | Include electric vehicle charging fixtures in new construction

CE219-19 | Expansion of required energy efficiency requirements

CE224-19 | HVAC system electrical power efficiency requirements

CE237-19*. et al | More electrical power monitoring hardware

CE238-19 | Electrical Energy Storage Systems

CE261-19 | Change of occupancy energy use intensity

CE262-19 | Electrical energy storage system-ready area

CE263-19 Part I&II&III* | Required PV systems for all commercial buildings larger than 5000 square feet/community solar facilities

CE265-19 | Energy Storage Systems

The Group B Cycle in ended in December.  Preliminary balloting results are linked below:

FINAL PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING RESULTS ON THE 2019 PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE INTERNATIONAL CODES – GROUP B

Source: Engineering-News Record

Whatever ever proposals failed in the 2021 IECC revision cycle may find their way into the forthcoming Group C revision cycle that features the International Green Construction Code (IgCC).   When public proposals open for the IgCC we will pass that information along to our colleagues.  You may do so yourself by registering your interest in ICC consensus products by clicking here: ICC Code Development.

We scan action in the ICC suite of consensus products at least once per month.   See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting;open to everyone.

Issue: [16-169]

Category: Architectural, Facility Asset Management, Space Planning

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Scott Gibbs, Jim Harvey, Jose Meijer,

* There are so many proposals for expansion of electrical control, monitoring and metering hardware that we identify only one of many conceptually related proposals here.   Refer to the standing agenda of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee for additional technical specifics.

 


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S. 3925 / 9-11 Funding to Protect Housing Support for Pandemic Student Distance Learning

August 11, 2020
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Readings / Estimating Water Demand in Buildings

August 10, 2020
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Trade-Related Standards Issues

August 10, 2020
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Smart Campus Teaching Based on 5G Network

August 10, 2020
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Research on Key Technologies of Smart Campus Teaching Platform Based on 5G Network

Sxin Xu / School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
Dan Li / North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
Gunasekaran Manogaran / University of California at Davis, Davis, USA
George Mastorakis / Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Constandinos X Mavromoustakis / Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

 

Along with the development of the Internet of Things technology, due to the limitation of network transmission mode, the existing 4G LTE system can no longer meet the demands of different clients for information transmission rate owing to the single scenario of the IoT. 5G network arises at the historic moment and changes qualitatively in three aspects: data transmission rate, number of connected devices and time delay. 5G network will alter the previous transmission mode, enrich communication between users-devices as well as devices-devices, apply to complex IoT applications, thus to achieve seamless communication in 5G era.

As the prototype of a small society, the Internet of Things framework of Smart Campus is also complicated, hence the popularity of IoT is still low at this stage. This paper aims to provide direction for 5G network to be applied in the construction of Smart Campus, and develop the maximum application of smart phone on campus. The most typical application form of traditional Smart Campus is the application of network teaching platform, which connects teachers and students, helps to enrich students’ learning resources and improves teachers’ teaching performance. The construction of Smart Campus is not just a single trend, it needs to be closely combined with the improvement of education technology and education resource informatization. Many experts and scholars at home and abroad began to study the construction of Smart Campus: Xia et al. proposed a Smart Campus framework based on Internet of Things and cloud computing that integrating hardware resources through virtualization technologies. The planning and recommendation of Smart Campus model for teaching resources proposed by an Indian research institute made reasonable use of school teaching resources and improved the teaching quality. The University of California has realized intelligent control on the campus hardware facilities, making it possible to monitor the campus environment.

In view of the pain spot of students’ sign-in during the teaching process, this study envisaged in combination with 5G network and mobile terminal to achieve more accurate information of students’ sign-in in class, studied whether the network teaching platform of Four Initiatives model could be better applied under the background of 5G network. It intends to discuss the accuracy of student sign-in information by improving VIRE location algorithm to obtain the specific location information of the sign-in users in class.

We set aside one hour per month to walk through information and communications technology standards.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.  We also collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee on #SmartCampus to “write code and get votes” on technical and management concepts.   Those online meetings are open to everyone and are hosted four times per month in both European and American time zones.

Indian River School District

Issue: [Various]

Category: Academic, Electrical, Information & Communications Technology, Management & Administration, #SmartCampus

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Chad Jones, David Law


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Workspace / Intellectual Property

August 9, 2020
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August 7, 2020
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National Electrical Code 2023

August 6, 2020
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H.R. 5906 / RECYCLE Act

August 6, 2020
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115th Congress. Photo Credit: Pew Research Center

A BILL: To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a consumer recycling education and outreach grant program, and for other purposes.

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