116th Congress / Proposed Regulations

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116th Congress / Proposed Regulations

November 1, 2019
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List of proposed federal regulations affecting the education facility industry.   We review their status once a month.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.

Archive / Circular Economy

November 1, 2019
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Association of Commercial Diving Educators

November 1, 2019
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Student Standards Scholarships

November 1, 2019
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Standing Agenda / Interiors

November 1, 2019
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$500 Capstone Project Stipend Available to Students

October 31, 2019
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Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1595) / Heinrich Khunrath
“The Alchemists Laboratory”*

 

Updated 31 October 2019

ASTM International offers a limited number of $500 project grants to university students to help with their Capstone/student design projects. Complete details, eligibility, and requirements for this grant can be found on the ASTM website:

ASTM International Student Project Grants.

 

Application deadline is Oct 31st

Grant applications and any questions should be directed to Travis Murdock, Manager, Technical Committee Operations, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, USA, TEL: +1.610.832.9826, (tmurdock@astm.org)

*Source:  “…The work is infused with a strange combination of Christianity and magic, illustrated with elaborate, hand-colored, engraved plates heightened with gold and silver. The tension between spirituality and experiment, and the rich symbolism of Khunrath’s writings and their engravings brought condemnation of the book by the Sorbonne in 1625, and now attracts attention from scholars…”

Happening Now: I-Code Public Comment Webcast

October 30, 2019
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Starting at 12 PM Pacific Time in the United States today the International Code Council continues its Public Comment Hearings on its Group B consensus products.  The agenda for these hearings — which will be hosted through October 30 — is linked below:

2019 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING SCHEDULE October 23 – 30, 2019 Rio Hotel and Convention Center Las Vegas, NV

Click on the image below to join the webcast:

The Group B Hearings from Las Vegas will be webcast. Click here to access the link

We have been following proposals that affect #TotalCostofOwnership of education facilities since the beginning of the Group B revision cycle.  Here is the link to the monograph that sets the agenda for the Group B Hearings:  It is a large document — 2919 pages — so allow it a minute or two to generate access:.

2019 Group B Proposed Changes

  A short list of concepts that we have been following is listed below:

  1. Education facilities as storm shelters
  2. Enhanced classroom acoustics
  3. Carbon monoxide detection in Group E occupancies
  4. Locking arrangements in educational occupancies
  5. Interior lighting power allowances for classrooms
  6. Occupancy sensors for classrooms
  7. Automatic control of receptacle power in classrooms and laboratories
  8. Expansion of voltage drop requirements into customer-owned service conductors

There are others which we cover during our monthly I-Codes teleconferences.   See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.

Real asset managers for school districts, colleges, universities and technical schools in the Las Vegas region should take advantage of the opportunity to observe the ICC code-development process.   The ICC Code Development Process is one of the best in the land, and the webcasts are appreciated, the experience of seeing how building codes are determined is enlightening when you can watch it live and on site.   It is not too late for our colleagues in the Las Vegas region to register for the conference.

ICC Annual Conference Registration

 

Hoover Dam at Dusk / Nevada

Issue: [16-169]

Category: Architectural, Facility Asset Management, Space Planning

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben

 

 

 

Industrial Building Measurement

October 23, 2019
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Murales Rivera – Markt in Tlatelolco

The Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) is an accredited consensus standard developer of a few consensus products that inform facility management practice of private and public industry.  BOMA has initiated the process of revising its Gross Areas measurement standard Z65.2 for Industrial Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement.   The primary objectives of this standard are:

  • To promote an unambiguous framework for determining the areas of Industrial Buildings with a strong focus on Rentable Area calculations.
  • To facilitate transparency and clear communication of building measurement concepts among all participants in the commercial real estate industry.
  • To allow a comparison of values on the basis of a clearly understood and generally agreed upon method of measurement.
  • To align concepts and measurement methodologies with the International Property Measurement Standards: Industrial Buildings (January 2018) document.

Comments are due November 4th.

You may obtain an electronic review copy from: tjohnston@boma.org; lprats@boma.org.  Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org) to: tjohnston@boma.org; lprats@boma.org

We keep all BOMA standards on the standing agenda of our monthly Facility Management standards teleconference.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.

Issue: [15-200]

Category: Architectural, Facility Management

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben


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Archive / BOMA

 

 

S. 976 / Campus Accountability and Safety Act

October 23, 2019
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115th Congress. Photo Credit: Pew Research Center

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to combat campus sexual assault, and for other purposes.

S. 976: Campus Accountability and Safety Act

 

Steam System Energy Assessment

October 21, 2019
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