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Monster Culture
“Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening
until it’s the only culture anyone notices.”
P. J. O’Rourke
Administrative Services Gateway: University Facilities
DIN-BIM-Cloud
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Universität zu Lübeck
The Role of Hunting in Wildlife Conservation
“Cousin Reginald” 1917 | Norman Rockwell
Cloud Computing Paradigm
“The greatest danger in modern technology isn’t that machines will begin to think like people,
ut that people will begin to think like machines.”
— Michael Gazzaniga
NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap
The “next big thing” reveals itself in hindsight. Some areas of interest and potential advancements include:
- Edge Computing: Edge computing brings computation closer to the data source, reducing latency and bandwidth usage. It enables processing and analysis of data at or near the edge of the network, which is especially important for applications like IoT, real-time analytics, and autonomous systems.
- Quantum Computing: Quantum computing holds the promise of solving complex problems that are currently beyond the capabilities of classical computers. Cloud providers are exploring ways to offer quantum computing as a service, allowing users to harness the power of quantum processors.
- Serverless Computing: Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling developers to focus solely on writing code. Cloud providers offer Function as a Service (FaaS), where users pay only for the actual execution time of their code, leading to more cost-effective and scalable solutions.
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud: Organizations are increasingly adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, enhance resilience, and optimize performance by distributing workloads across different cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Cloud providers are integrating AI and ML capabilities into their platforms, making it easier for developers to build AI-driven applications and leverage pre-built models for various tasks.
- Serverless AI: The combination of serverless computing and AI allows developers to build and deploy AI models without managing the underlying infrastructure, reducing complexity and operational overhead.
- Extended Security and Privacy: As data privacy concerns grow, cloud providers are investing in improved security measures and privacy-enhancing technologies to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with regulations.
- Containerization and Kubernetes: Containers offer a lightweight, portable way to package and deploy applications. Kubernetes, as a container orchestration tool, simplifies the management of containerized applications, enabling scalable and resilient deployments.
“Pumpkin Spice is as Popular as Ever”
Montclair State University Financial Position: $391, 445 (000)
The European Conservative: Harrison Pitt & Eric Kaufman
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Montclair State University | Essex County New Jersey
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“All Applicable Standards”
From time to time we drill into representative design guidelines and specifications for facility classes that are present on educational campuses; including projects involving the spaces between buildings — i.e. water, pathway, power and telecommunication infrastructure.
We place particular emphasis on the “General Conditions” of these guidelines and specifications because up to 20 percent of a construction project may involve the cost of general conditions; depending upon how many disciplines are involved.
We find excesses in the General Conditions that tend to inflate contingency requirements but also shortcomings that design professionals, construction project managers and building service engineers* should know about. Facility development units will likely want to tweak design and construction documents to harmonize with the latest changes in the codes and standards that govern the safety and sustainability agenda of the education facility industry.
Tulane University School of Architecture
Building services engineers are responsible for the design, installation, operation and monitoring of the technical services in buildings (including mechanical, electrical and public health systems, also known as MEP or HVAC), in order to ensure the safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly operation.
Building services engineers work closely with other construction professionals such as architects, structural engineers and quantity surveyors.
Building services engineers influence the architectural design of building, in particular facades, in relation to energy efficiency and indoor environment, and can integrate local energy production (e.g. façade-integrated photovoltaics) or community-scale energy facilities (e.g. district heating). Building services engineers therefore play an important role in the design and operation of energy-efficient buildings (including green buildings, passive houses and zero energy buildings. uses. With buildings accounting for about a third of all carbon emissions] and over a half of the global electricity demand, building services engineers play an important role in the move to a low-carbon society; a prevailing sentiment among many educational settlements.
Update: 29 November 2024
Anatomical Donation
Anatomical donation programs are supported by relatively stable best practice literature that are highly cross-referencing. The organ donation industry grows at a surprising clip and, as such, has its share of sketchy actors.
Our discussion today — at 15:00 UTC– is limited to the safety and sustainability of the support facilities for human cadavers only; with attention to the most recent construction projects.
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Representative Literature:
Relevant Codes & Standards:
ASHRAE International
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM International
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
International Code Council
International Building Code
International Mechanical Code
International Plumbing Code
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
National Fire Protection Association
More:
American Association for Anatomy
American Association of Tissue Banks
IEEE: Virtual Reality Application in Anatomy Education: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Direction
Anatomy Meets Architecture: Designing New Laboratories for New Anatomists
National Donor Day: February 14
Join us today at 15:00 UTC. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Lights Out
“If You Can Measure It, You Can Improve It” (Lord Kelvin)
Critical Operations Power Systems
Operational Resilience of Hospital Journal Article Published Inaugural Issue
Consuting-Specifying Engineer | Risk Assessments for Critical Operations Power Systems
Electrical Construction & Maintenance | Critical Operations Power Systems
Facilities Manager | Critical Operations Power Systems: The Generator in Your Backyard
National Electrical Code: Article 110 Requirements for Electrical Installations (Section 110.5 was revised to include aluminum wiring which can cut the cost of running large chunks of campus power by 2/3rds and increase campus power reliability by cutting the cost of backup feeders)
IEEE-TV Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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