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Education Facility Legislative Proposals

January 19, 2020
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114th United States Congress / There is no group photograph of the current (116th) Congress

We present, without comment, a curated list of the nearly 1200 legislative proposals pending in the 116th Congress dealing with education facilities; focusing only on safety and sustainability concepts. We do not advocate in legislative proceedings.  These proposals are on the agenda of our review of monthly construction released by the US Census Bureau.

H.R. 158: Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2019

S. 266: Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2019

S. 253: Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act

H.R. 852: Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

H.R. 865: Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2019

S. 1442: School Security Enhancement Act

H.R. 1457: 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act

H.R. 3322: Renew America’s Schools Act of 2019

H.R. 4674: College Affordability Act

We follow federal legislative proposals because they frequently offer insight into the advocacy activity of incumbent stakeholders.   How these proposals get paid for is a topic on our Finance & Management standards teleconference.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.

 

Standing Agenda / Security

January 17, 2020
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Intelligent Buildings & Premises / Comments Due April 26th

January 16, 2020
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BICSI (Building Industry Consulting Service International)
BSR/BICSI 007-202x, Information Communication Technology Design and Implementation Practices for Intelligent Buildings and Premises (revision
of ANSI/BICSI 007-2017)
This standard covers the design and implementation of the information communication technology systems required to support an intelligent
building/premise integrated design. Systems covered, include, but are not limited to: building automation/management, utility utilization, lighting,
signage and wayfinding, sound and acoustical services, vertical transportation, location, and asset tracking.
Click here to view these changes in full
Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org) to: jsilveira@bicsi.org

 

https://share.ansi.org/Shared%20Documents/Standards%20Action/2020-PDFs/SAV5113.pdf

 

 

 

Information and communications technology (ICT) is a fast-moving space in which a mix of consensus, consortia and open-source standards form the broad contours of leading practice.   The “culture” of ICT is informed by international trends — more so than, say, fire safety standards which are informed trends administered by state and local fire marshalls.  It is fair to say that ICT supports the beating heart of the education facility industry.

The Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) is a professional association supporting the advancement of the ICT community in all markets.   This community is roughly divided between experts who deal with “outside-plant” systems and “building premise” systems on either side of the ICT demarcation (or Point-of-Presence).   BICSI standards cover the wired and wireless spectrum of voice, data, electronic safety & security, project management and audio & video technologies.  The landing page for its standards-setting enterprise is linked below:

BICSI International Standards Program

The stars on the map above indicate where BICSI Standards are currently in use (CLICK ON IMAGE).

BICSI has released a revision of one of its consensus products for public review:

BICSI 007 Information Communication Technology Design and Implementation Practices for Intelligent Buildings and Premises

This standard covers the design and implementation of the information communication technology systems required to support an intelligent building/premise integrated design. Systems covered, include, but are not limited to: building automation/management, utility utilization, lighting, signage and wayfinding, sound and acoustical services, vertical transportation, location, and asset tracking.

BICSI 007 also provides requirements and recommendation for design and implementation of the structured cabling system and related applications for any size building or premise, including those that serve commercial, government, transportation, residential, or any other functions. It also includes information for building automation systems, low-voltage lighting, combined data and power transmission (e.g., PoE, PoH), and a number of other systems that are routinely found inside intelligent building applications.

Comments are due January 20th.

Review copies are free and obtainable from Jeff Silveira (jsilveira@bicsi.org).  Send comments to Jeff with an optional copy to psa@ansi.org.

All BICSI standards are on our twice-monthly Power & Telecommunications teleconferences which we host jointly with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.   See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone. 

Issue: [19-30]

Category: Telecommunications, Electrical, #SmartCampus

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Michael Hiler


LEARN MORE:

* Work Systems based Fractal Architecture of Information Systems

 

 

Standing Agenda / Campus 5G

January 15, 2020
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Standards South Carolina

January 12, 2020
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Emerging Transportation Technology

January 7, 2020
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“Little Children on a Bicycle” mural on Armenian Street, George Town, Penang by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic as part of the George Town Festival 2012

 

The school bus system is the largest mass transportation system in the United States*

and has eluded the “gales of creative destruction”**  found in other industries.

 

In April the US Department of Transportation (DOT) created the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council to identify and resolve jurisdictional and regulatory gaps associated with non-traditional and emerging transportation projects pending before DOT, including with respect to safety oversight, environmental review, and funding issues. The Office of the Secretary of Transportation invites comments on projects, issues, or topics that DOT should consider through the NETT Council, including regulatory models and other alternative approaches for non-traditional and emerging transportation technologies.

The Federal Register Notice is linked below:

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION / Office of the Secretary / Docket No. DOT–OST–2019–0165

Comments directly to the DOT are due January 10, 2020.

Apart from inter- and intra- campus travel issues, there are three reasons for Standards Michigan interest in the DOT inquiry:

  • According to DOT statistics the American school bus system is the largest public transportation operation in the United States; with nearly 500,000 vehicles moving 26 million children to school every day.
  • A great deal of federal funding is allocated to transportation research.
  • Academic programs in engineering and urban planning must include an understanding of public and private transportation issues.   

For the education facility industry, Standards Michigan prefers privately developed consensus products; preferably by accredited or open-source standard developers with robust outreach toward the user-interest.   The American National Standards Institute — the not-for-profit organization that supports the voluntary standards and conformity assessment system — is planning to develop a response to the Request for Information, and strongly encourages its members and constituents to either respond directly to the RFI or to contribute to the ANSI’s response.

Contributions to ANSI’s response are due December 20th.

We place this commenting opportunity on the agenda of our monthly Transportation & Parking teleconference.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.

Campuses are “cities-within-cities” and perfect study units for cities of the future

Issue: [19-152]

Category: Transportation & Parking

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Paul Green. Richard Robben

* America’s Largest Transit System

** Joseph Schumpeter: Schöpferische Zerstörung


LEARN MORE:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

The Yellow School Bus Industry

ANSI Announcement / November 27, 2019

H.R. 5247 / Stop Unfair Bid Shopping Act of 2019

January 6, 2020
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Photo by Architect of the Capitol | Left: The teacher and children in a “little red schoolhouse” represent an important part of American education in the 1800s.
Right: Students attend a land grant college, symbolic of the national commitment to higher learning.

H.R.5247 – Stop Unfair Bid Shopping Act of 2019

To require prime contractors under Federal construction contracts to notify the Government of changes in certain subcontractors performing work under the contract.

Sequences of Operation for HVAC Systems

January 6, 2020
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Standards Michigan

January 5, 2020
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University of Michigan 1855

We have spent the better part of 2019 setting up the 50-state framework and the algorithms for identifying commenting opportunities on consensus products that set the standard of care for safety and sustainability of the $300 billion education facility industry.   A spend rate of this size compares with the annual gross domestic product of entire nations such as Denmark and Chile.

Starting January 1, 2020 you will begin to notice more specifics about how each state finances, builds and operates the real assets that are the crucible for business and culture.  Hewing to our core mission we will focus on identifying and strengthening the voice of the user-interest.  (See our ABOUT)

StandardsMichigan.COM will remain the home site where most of the content is free.   All other states will have a dedicated web site — identifiable by the URL: www.standardsstate.com — which will roll out through 2020.  For example:

www.StandardsAlabama.com

www.StandardsMichigan.com

www.StandardsTexas.com (This is our mock-up site at the moment)

www.StandardsWyoming.com

It is unlikely that the web sites of all 50-states will have the same look and feel; owing to each state’s unique business and cultural profile; each state will have a different look-and-feel because every state’s business culture is different.   The content will be rich and fast-moving but we will be experimenting with different content management systems as 2020 proceeds.


Electronic Municipal Market Access / Michigan

Michigan Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs

List of colleges and universities in Michigan

List of school districts in Michigan

Michigan State University 2019-2020 Budgets

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