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Play is the making of civilizationāhow one plays the game
more to the point than whether the game is won or lost.
The purpose of this standard is to establish the minimum requirements to safeguard health, safety and general welfare through structural strength, means of egress facilities, stability and safety to life and property relative to the construction, alteration, repair, operation and maintenance of new and existing temporary and permanent bench bleacher, folding and telescopic seating and grandstands.Ā This standard is intended for adoption by government agencies and organizations setting model codes to achieve uniformity in technical design criteria in building codes and other regulations.
FREE ACCESS: Standard on Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, and Grandstands
We are tracking the changes in the transcripts linked below:
ICC 300-2020 edition Public Input Agenda – January 2022
ICC 300-2017 editionĀ Public Comment Draft ā October 2017
Consensus Committee on Bleacher Safety (IS-BLE)
This title is on the standing agenda of our Sport, Olahraga (Indonesian), Ų±ŁŲ§Ų¶Ų© (Arabic), colloquia.Ā Ā You are welcomed to join us any day at with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
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Virtual reality technology in evacuation simulation of sport stadiums
Code of Practice for Emergency Sound Systems at Sports Venues
Posted December 6, 2019
At the April International Code Council Group A Hearings thereĀ were three candidate code changes related to the safety standard of care for athletic venues:
E104-18 (§ 1017 regarding exit travel distances) | PDF Page 218 of the Complete Monograph
F9-18 (§ 304 regarding spaces under bleachers) | PDF Page 1021 of the Complete Monograph
F135-18 (§ 907 regarding communication systems for open air bleachers) | PDF Page 1296 of the Complete Monograph
These concepts will likely be coordinated with another ICC regulatory product —Ā ICC 300 – Standard on Bleachers, Folding and TelescopicĀ Seating, and GrandstandsĀ —Ā covered here previously.Ā Ā ICC 300 is a separate document but some of the safety concepts track through both.
The ICC Public Comment Hearings on Group A commentsĀ in Richmond Virginia ended a few days ago (CLICK HERE).Ā Ā The balloting is being processedĀ by the appropriate committee and will be released soon.Ā For the moment, we are happy to walk through the proposed changes – that will become part of the 2021 International Building Code — any day at 11 AM Eastern time.Ā Ā We will walk through all athletic and recreation enterprise codes and standards on Friday, November 2nd, 11 AM Eastern time.Ā Ā For access to either teleconference, click on the LIVE Link at the upper right corner of our home page.
Category: Athletics & Recreation, Architectural, Public Safety
Contact: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben, Jack Janveja
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Posted October 19, 2017
The International Code Council has launched a new revision cycle for its consensus document — ICC 300 – Standard on Bleachers, Folding and TelescopicĀ Seating, and Grandstands.Ā The purpose of the effort is the development of appropriate, reasonable, andĀ enforceable model health and safety provisions for new and existingĀ installations of all types of bleachers and bleacher-type seating, includingĀ fixed and folding bleachers for indoor, outdoor, temporary, and permanentĀ installations. Such provisions would serve as a model for adoption and useĀ by enforcement agencies at all levels of government in the interest ofĀ national uniformity.
Comments are due December 4th.Ā The document is free.Ā You may obtain an electronic copy from: https://www.iccsafe.org/codes-techsupport/standards/is-ble/.Ā Comments may be sent to Edward Wirtschoreck, (888) 422-7233, ewirtschoreck@iccsafeĀ with copy to psa@ansi.org)
* With some authority, we can claim that without Standards Michigan, many education industry trade associations would not be as involved in asserting the interest of facility managers in global consensus standards development processes.Ā Ā See ABOUT.Ā Ā
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own,
we have no soul of our own civilization.”
University of Chicago Architectural Studies
The Robie House is maintained and operated by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. The trust focuses on the restoration, preservation, and education related to Wright’s architectural legacy. The Robie House, located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, is one of the trust’s key properties.
Building codes for houses and museums may have some similarities but also key differences due to the distinct functions and occupancy types. Building codes are typically established to ensure the safety, health, and general welfare of the occupants and the public. While some requirements may be consistent, the specific regulations can vary based on the use and characteristics of the building. Here are some general considerations for how building codes might differ between houses and museums:
International Residential Code
With acoustic considerations a substantial contributor to the effectiveness of learning spaces — classrooms, lecture hall, performance arts and athletic venues, etc.Ā — we follow action in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) suite of ANSI-accredited standards.
For example, building codes in the United States identify horizontal and vertical acoustic insulation between floors and between walls, respectively, as design considerations.Ā Ā Section 1206.2 of the International Building Code deal withĀ horizontal and vertical wall sealant applications for “airborne sound” mitigation, for example.Ā Ā Fire protection and mass notification systems identified in NFPA 72 and UL 2572 depend upon alarms actually being heard by the occupants underscore the importance of acoustic design.Ā When lively art spaces are also instructional spaces we seek to understand the standard of care for acoustic design of classroom spaces.Ā Ā Of particular interest to us in the ASA bibliography is the title linked below:
This is a fairly stable standard; though other sound related technologies we cover in other sound related technologies (ISO TC/43 Acoustics and IEC Electroacoustics TC 29).Ā Last year’s update was required by ANSI and we had no comments to submit; absent queries from students, faculty and staff.Ā It is wise to keep it on our radar, however, given the step-change in education communities owed to the pandemic.
On your own you may communicate with Caryn Mennigke at ASA: (631) 390-0215, asastds@acousticalsociety.org.Ā The ASA uses ANSI Standards Action for issuing live public consultation notices.
Since acoustic technologies cut across many disciplines we maintain it on the standing agenda of our Construction, Lively Art and Nota Bene teleconferences.Ā Ā See our CALENDAR next scheduled meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [19-140]
Category: Academics, Architectural, #SmartCampus
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Kristen Murphy
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Room acoustic design, measurement, and simulation techniques to reduce hospital noises within patients’ environment |Ā Mojtaba Navvab,Ā University of Michigan
Acoustical/Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for SchoolsĀ Ā International Code Council
The IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee has completed a chapter on recommended practice for designing, building, operating and maintaining campus exterior lighting systems in the forthcoming IEEE 3001.9 Recommended Practice for theĀ Design of Power Systems for Supplying Commercial and Industrial Lighting Systems; a new IEEE Standards Association title inspired by, and derived from, the legacy “IEEE Red Book“.Ā The entire IEEE Color Book suite is in the process of being replaced by the IEEE 3000 Standards Collectionā¢Ā which offers faster-moving and more scaleable, guidance to campus power system designers.
Campus exterior lighting systems generally run in the 100 to 10,000 fixture range and are, arguably, the most visible characteristic of public safety infrastructure.Ā Ā Some major research universities have exterior lighting systems that are larger and more complex than cooperative and municipal power company lighting systems which are regulated by public service commissions.
While there has been considerable expertise in developing illumination concepts by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Illumination Engineering Society, the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers, the International Electrotechnical Commission and the International Commission on Illumination, none of them contribute to leading practice discovery for the actual power chain for these large scale systems on a college campus.Ā Ā The standard of care has been borrowed, somewhat anecdotally, from public utility community lighting system practice.Ā These concepts need to be revisited as the emergent #SmartCampus takes shape.
Electrical power professionals who service the education and university-affiliated healthcare facility industry should communicate directly with Mike Anthony (maanthon@umich.edu) or Jim Harvey (jharvey@umich.edu).Ā Ā This project is also on the standing agenda of the IEEE E&H committee which meets online 4 times monthly — every other Tuesday — in European and American time zones.Ā Login credentials are available on its draft agenda page.
Issue: [15-199]
Category: Electrical, Public Safety, Architectural, #SmartCampus, Space Planning, Risk Management
Contact: Mike Anthony, Kane Howard, Jim Harvey, Dev Paul, Steven Townsend, Kane Howard
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Construction progress update: May 24, 2024
This project restores the Old Art Gallery building for a new electrical switching station. The 1904 building was originally the campus powerhouse, supplying electricity and steam to the young Berkeley campus. As the campus grew, power demands exceeded its capacity and, in 1930, a new central plant opened in the southwest part of campus. In 1934, the former powerhouse building reopened as a gallery to display art and served this purpose until a new University Art Museum opened on Bancroft Way in 1970. The building was subsequently used for storage for more than 50 years.
In restoring and structurally improving the Old Art Gallery building to house the new Switch Station #8, the small brick building that began its storied life as a powerhouse more than 100 years ago will become a key component in UC Berkeley’s 100% clean energy future.
IEEE TV: Overview of UC Berkely Resistance Grounded Campus Power System
Pacific Gas & Electric: Electric Service Requirements (TD-7001M) 2022-2023″Greenbook Manual”
Paul Hardin Kapp
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States
ABSTRACT: The university campus in the United States is a unique architectural and landscape architecture typology. Nothing like it existed until Harvard University was established in 1638. Invented during in the 17th century by the American colonists and later developed during the American Industrial Revolution, the American campus is a community devoted to teaching and generating knowledge. It can be urban, suburban, and/or rural in form and its planning directly correlates with a universityās research mission and the pedagogy of the American university system. Its buildings and landscapes are embedded with iconography, which the founding builders used to convey their values to future generations.
This paper presents the history of how this designed work first emerged in American society and then evolved in ways that responded to changes that occurred in America. At the end of the 20th century, universities conserved parts of them as cultural heritage monuments. Originally, the university campus was built to disseminate a classical education, but later, the campus was built for technical and agricultural education. By the beginning of the 20th century, professional education and sport changed its architecture and landscape. The paper briely discusses that while it has inspired how universities are built to teach and generate knowledge throughout the world. It concludes by reairming its value to cultural heritage and that it should be conserved.
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