ASHRAE 3210 | Assessment of Education Facilities for Fungal Contamination

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) develops open source consensus standards for all US industries and is now asking financial statement preparers to participate in a survey that is part of a GASB pre-agenda research effort to evaluate disclosure requirements.  The objective of GASB’s research activity is to gather feedback on these broad questions:

• What existing note disclosures are effective or ineffective in providing information that is useful for making decisions and assessing accountability?
• What concerns exist regarding the application of standards?
• What is the nature and extent of disclosures that governments currently include in their financial reports that are not specifically required by existing financial reporting standards?

Disclosure requirements are currently extensive and constituent input is vital to GASB’s standard setting process,   You may comment directly at this link: Survey of Financial Statement Preparers

Specific survey questions can be directed to GASB staff: Pam Dolan (pdolan@gasb.org) or Lisa Parker (lrparker@gasb.org)   

Colleges and universities have stepped up their game in student housing;

owing to the financing opportunities offered by Real Estate Investment Trusts.

There are several noteworthy proposals now under consideration by the ICC Building Code Action Committee (BCAC) that are being prepared for the 2021 International Code Council’s meetings April 15 to 25, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio.   These proposals are intended to set safety standards for evolving occupancies and use classes.  See links below:

BCAC_Efficiency Apartments Draft_Progress_Report_171113(2) File 17-318

2018 IBC SECTION 1209 DRAFT TEXT File 17-318

8 clustered single user toilet rooms JULY29 File 17-318

Ahead of these meetings, or information about how to participate, may be directed to Ed Wirtschorek (ewirtschoreck@iccsafe.org).  We will also place these on tomorrow’s Open Door teleconference, to which everyone is welcomed:

Contact

Issue: [17-318]

Contact: Mike Anthony (mike@standards michigan.com), Richard Robben (rrobben1951@gmail.com)

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