Readings: International Code Council

“The Seven Liberal Arts” | Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi

We have resumed our regularly scheduled weekly open agenda teleconferences — a practice begun in 2014 — during which time we sort through the “stream” of public commenting opportunities available to both the academic and business side of the education industry.   We display 9 to 18 opportunities for public comment every day that, in our judgement, present an opportunity to reduce #TotalCostofOwnership of the education facilities industry – a $300 billion industry — the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States.  These opportunities are presented by about 100 standards development organizations worldwide.  We summarize them once per week but are open for discussion every day at 11 AM Eastern time.  (Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page)

As we explain in our ABOUT, participation in consensus and open source standards development provides an opportunity to discover leading practice and to reduce the cost of education by reducing redundancy and destructive competition.   Anyone is welcomed to join these teleconferences from your computer, tablet or smartphone with by clicking on the image:

You can also dial in using your phone. United States : +1 (408) 650-3123 Access Code: 718-914-669

We generally review comments on proposals submitted by other user interests as individuals or trade associations, or draft proposals and comments of our own.

We especially encourage user-interest subject matter experts affiliated with the many education industry trade associations to “click in”, mark up and submit comments on the codes and standards we track every day in order to make campuses safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer-lasting (See ABOUT).  Subscribers to our mailing list will have access to a detailed agenda and high priority content.   Please email bella@standardsmichigan.com for a detailed agenda.

Faculty and students at all levels are also welcome.  There is no enterprise on earth that provides the detailed, cross-cutting view of the blistering speed of technical and business standards development; consensus, open-source or consortia.   Many organizations in the standards space host competitions for grants and paper-writing.   We can walk them through the highlights of successful faculty grants and student-paper winners.

Next open agenda teleconference: December 5th.   Note that we meet daily on specific policy, management and technical standards more or less on a daily basis at 11 AM Eastern time.   See CALENDAR.

University of Texas

Columbia University

A college or university graduate has to acclimate him or herself to the inherited wisdom that lies at the foundation of his or her chosen discipline.  To hasten this process before graduation the American National Standards Institute Committee on Education (CoE) hosts an annual competition that awards cash prizes and invitations to its annual conference.

We routinely we reach back into the ANSI CoE library to feature previous winners to provide future competitors examples that might fashion their own entries.  Today we feature the first of the two 2013 winners.  The topic continues its relevance:

The Role of Standards in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Chris Golden | The Earth Institute and School of Continuing Education, Columbia University

Abstract. This paper will attempt to demonstrate the role that standards play in both preparing for and responding to natural disasters to facilitate recovery operations and minimize disruption of business services. The author draws from his own experience relating to disaster preparedness and response, most recently serving as an environmental, health, and safety (EHS) manager for the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort. At the time of the writing of this paper, organizations lack the technological capacity to prevent a natural disaster. But the impact that a disaster has on an organization can be lessened provided that an organization is adequately prepared and can adapt to a disaster’s operational risks.  For the purposes of this paper, the term “organization” can be applied to any entity regardless of size or scope. Examples include, but are not limited to, private businesses, public agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and communities. Natural disasters are not selective in what types of organizations are affected by their destruction, nor should standards be in providing guidance for their recovery.

The paper, in its entirety, is linked below:

ANSI Student Paper Competition 2013 | First Place Winner

Standards Michigan is not primarily an educational organization despite its origin in one of the largest “cities-within-cities” in the education industry.   We are happy to zoom in and out of the “stream” of standards action with students and/or sponsoring faculty any day at 11 AM Eastern time, however.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.   You may also communicate directly with the ANSI CoE Secretariat Lisa Rajchel, 212.642.4932, E-mail: lrajchel@ansi.org

The deadline for the 2019 Student Paper Competition is April 30th, 2019

Issue: [12-78]

Category: Academics, Public Policy

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Paul Green

LEARN MORE:

ANSI Announces 2019 Student Paper Competition: “How Do Standards Help Mitigate Disaster?”

ANSI Essential Requirements: Due process requirements for American National Standards 

https://www.standardslearn.org/