ASHRAE Standard 215P | Determination of Leakage of HVAC Air Distribution Systems

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ASHRAE Standard 215P | Determination of Leakage of HVAC Air Distribution Systems

October 9, 2017
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ASME A17.3 | Elevator Safety Code

October 3, 2017
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Student Paper Competition

July 22, 2017
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  • Ferris State University

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, and its Committee on Education (CoE) hosts a paper competition every year.  The purpose of this competition is part of an ANSI-led effort to raise awareness about the strategic importance of standards and conformance among U.S. undergraduate and graduate students.

The 2016 winners are:

Karmin Chong of the City College of New York are the first-place winners:

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Amanda Goetz, Branden Hill, Libby Lee, and Jennifer Pattillo of Michigan’s Ferris State University are the second-place winners.

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The 2017 papers focusing on “The World in 2050” (Click here) were due in April and are now being evaluated by Committee on Education for award during World Standards Week — October 16-20 in Washington D.C.  (Click here).  In the intervening time, it is not too soon for educators to present this opportunity to students.   During its May 22nd meeting, the ANSI Committee on Education discussed multi-media possibilities for the student “paper” competition.    More information on this possibility, and how to become involved, is available from Lisa Rajchel ([email protected]) and Monte Bogatz ([email protected]).

See related blog post:  Five Universities Receive Funding to Develop Standards Curricula

 

 

Contact: Mike Anthony ([email protected]), Christine Fischer ([email protected]), Paul Green ([email protected])

Advocacy Update for MIAPPA | Summer 2017

July 1, 2017
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Both Mike and Rich are attending the MIAPPA Summer Conference at Ferris State University this week and are available to answer questions about the status of the technical and management standard advocacy enterprise begun at the University of Michigan in 1993 that ran until 2016.  

Last year’s advocacy report — prepared for MIAPPA members — is linked below:

@StandardsUMich-Report-to-MIAPPA-Summer-2016 (1)

The backstory about the original University of Michigan Plant Operations enterprise to increase safety and reduce #TotalCostofOwnership for our “cities-within-cities” through assertive participation in consensus standards was covered in our presentation at the Winter meeting at Saginaw Valley State University in March.  For the convenience of our colleagues a few keys points summarized then are listed again below:

1.  The Simon Institute is publishing the first three ANSI accredited custodial standards for one of the largest cost centers in the US education facilities industry:

2. The 2017 National Electrical Code will contain two advocacy achievements on electrical safety and security, 9 years in the making:

  • §110.5 | Bright line language that clarifies that the National Electrical Code permits the use of  aluminum wiring for buildings and large medium voltage campus power distribution systems.  
  • §220.12 | Lighting supply circuits may be reduced to 2-1/2 watts per square foor from 3-1/2 watts per square foot.  IEEE article on the 2014 NEC change (other trade journals will be covering our 2017 change):

IEEE IAS Article on NEC 220 Anthony Harmon Harvey July August 2016

Note: All electrical power, telecommunication and information technology concepts are being formulated in collaboration with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets on line bi-weekly in American and European time zones and is focused on developing IEEE standards for campus power and telecommunications infrastructure for the emergent #SmartCampus.   A 2020 NEC workgroup has already begun coordinated mark up of the 2017 NEC with the IEEE SCC18 and meets 2x weekly on Friday and Saturday.   MIAPPA members are welcomed to log in with the information available at this link:  NFPA 70-Series Workgroup

3. With the funding provided by MIAPPA and others, the NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation has completed Phase I of a study intended to “rightsize” the building premise power chains that are most common in the US education facilities industry.   The study in its entirety is available at this link:  Evaluation of Electrical Feeder and Branch Circuit Loading

4. The Office of Regulatory Reinvention is making significant changes to Bureau of Construction Code administration.  Some of the changes are those for which we have been advocating for the past 3 years — namely, putting a check on incumbent interests.   One particular legislative proposal should be of interest: S.B. 963 Skilled Trades Regulation Act

5. The Michigan Energy Code (adapted from the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code) was adopted February 8, 2016.   We opted to advocate in the ASHRAE suite rather than directly in the IECC which was a more cost effective use of advocacy resources.

6. We continue to follow user-interest advocacy for performance-based inspection, testing & maintenance in ISEA Z358.1 ANSI Standard for Emergency Shower and Eyewash Equipment, though this priority has been spun off to subject matter experts at Northwestern University and APPA.

7. We continue encouraging proposals and comments on ANSI accredited and open source consensus documents that affect #TotalCostofOwnership by knowledgeable facility professionals of all disciplines and in other education industry trade associations.

Link to Rich Robben presentation: MIAPPA winter conf presentation – Rich Robben


 

Regulatory Advocacy Update for MiAPPA Senior Facilities Officers | Winter 2017

 

Advocacy Update for MIAPPA

March 3, 2017
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Federal Participation in Consensus Standards

February 12, 2017
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University of Michigan Ross School of Business

 

The White House Office of Management and Budget released a revision of OMB Circular No. A-119, Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities.  According to the announcement:

OMB has issued a revision of Circular A-119 in light of changes that have taken place in the world of regulation, standards, and conformity assessment since the Circular was last revised in 1998.  OMB’s revisions are meant to provide more detailed guidance to agencies to take into account several issues, including the Administration’s current work in Open Government, developments in regulatory policy and international trade, and changes in technology.

The revised Circular is available at the link below:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/inforeg/revised_circular_a-119_as_of_1_22.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_infopoltech

The response by ANSI is available at the link below:

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The degree to which leading practice can be discovered and promoted by industries themselves is a policy issue upon which good minds will disagree.   Few nations disagree that innovation is faster and more enduring from the workpoint (or the point of consumption) up, but markets are not perfect instruments for discovering the greater good.

At a speech given at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2015, S. Bhatia, CEO of the American National Standards Institute, expands upon this point in the short videoclip below:

Issue: [16-18]

Contact: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben

Category: Federal Regulation

 

ASHRAE 13 | Guidelines for Specifying Building Automation Systems

February 8, 2017
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DOE | Reducing Regulatory Burden

February 2, 2017
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Photovoltaic array the roof of the James Forrestal_Building, US Department of Energy | The US Department of Energy is one of the beneficiaries of Standards Michigan advocacy in the National Electrical Code since 1996

As part of its implementation of Executive Order 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” issued by the President Obama on January 18, 2011, the Department of Energy (Department or DOE) is seeking comments and information from interested parties to assist DOE in reviewing its existing regulations to determine whether any such regulations should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed. The purpose of DOE’s review is to make the agency’s regulatory program more effective and less burdensome in achieving its regulatory objectives. In this request for information, DOE also highlights its most recent regulatory review and reform efforts conducted to date in light of comments from interested parties.

The request for public comment is available in the link below:

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 5 CFR Chapter XXIII 10 CFR Chapters II, III, and X Reducing Regulatory Burden AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, Department of Energy

Much has happened since this commenting opportunity was posted on the original @StamdardsUMich website.   Accordingly, we will place this item on the agenda of our next weekly open door teleconference to which anyone is welcomed to join with the login information available in the link below:

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Issue: [16-149]

Contact: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben, Christine Fischer

Category: Federal Legislation

 

2017 National Electrical Code | Article 220 Branch and Feeder Circuits

February 1, 2017
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From our Archive | Standards In Action

January 29, 2017
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