The appearance of lawns and gardens contributes mightily to pleasant campus atmospherics that, in turn, supports the educational mission, philanthropic goals and brand identity. Playgrounds provide the opportunity for children to practice skills that will ultimately play a role in adult competencies such as the ability to collaborate with others, develop decision making skills, and successfully take on leadership roles, persevere in the face of distractions, and generate creative ideas. Many colleges and universities have botanical gardens that are open for instruction and public enjoyment.
The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) is one of the first names in standards setting in this domain. The landing page for its standards-setting enterprise is linked below:
Note that OPEI develops its suite according to the ANSI/NIST-ITL Canvass Method.*
OPEI has released the following title for public consultation:
OPEI B175.5-202X (N9) – (Standard) for Outdoor Power Equipment et. al
Canvass Committee response to the first draft is linked below:
Comments are due July 23rd.
We encourage our colleagues in exterior grounds and landscaping units to participate directly as a User interest in the OPEI standards development process. OPEI Standards Staff Contacts are listed on the OPEI Standards landing page. Start with Greg Knott (gknott@opei.org)
Noteworthy: OPEI is also ANSI’s US Technical Advisory Group administrator and the Global Secretariat for ISO TC/23 Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry. This makes sense since the machinery manufacturing has long since been a global industry. The landing page for that committee is linked below:
ISO/TC 23/SC 13 | Powered lawn and garden equipment
We maintain OPEI titles on the standing agenda of our Sport and Bucolia colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [18-155]
Category: Bucolia, Landscaping & Exterior, Sport
Colleagues: Jack Janveja, John Lawter, Richard Robben
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ASTM International develops most of the consensus documents that establish the standard of care for sports and recreation equipment and facilities. ASTM Committee F08 on Sports Equipment, Playing Surfaces, and Facilities has released a redline of its consensus product F2772 Specification for Athletic Performance Properties of Indoor Sports Floor Systems. Public announcement of the commenting opportunity appears in the link below:
Comments are due December 23rd.
ASTM International has its own way of posting exposure drafts for public comment; typically in very large batches compared with other consensus product developers present in our algorithm. Its due process procedures depend heavily on face-to-face meetings twice every year; usually the root cause of why so many are released at once. Any stakeholder is permitted free access to the exposure drafts during the comment period but very often the sheer number of exposure drafts prohibit complete participation. On the other hand, ASTM International has a lengthy catalog of consensus products in nearly every sector of the US economy, with hundreds of technical committees, so the large drops of redlines open for public comment reflect that.
Also, it may well be that F2772 is a relatively stable product such that proposed changes are minor enough that the redline does not require a lengthy commenting period. Usually major technical changes are dealt with farther upstream the standards development process; even before the semi-annual committee meetings.
You may obtain an electronic copy by communicating directly with cleonard@astm.org. Send your comments to Laura Klineburger, (610) 832-9744, accreditation@astm.org with a copy to psa@ansi.org
For more information about how to participate (i.e. travel to the meetings, present data to technical committee members, draft new proposals, review the redlines prepared by others, click into a committee teleconference, submit a ballot, etc.) you may communicate directly with ASTM F08 Staff Manager: Joe Koury (jkoury@astm.org) at 610-832-9804
We include this standard on the agenda of our monthly Athletic & Recreation facility teleconference; open to everyone. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting
Issue: [15-55]
Category: Athletic & Recreation
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
After athletic arena life safety obligations are met (governed legally by NFPA 70, NFPA 101, NFPA 110, the International Building Code and possibly other state adaptations of those consensus documents incorporated by reference into public safety law) business objective standards come into play. The illumination of the competitive venue itself figures heavily into the quality of digital media visual experience and value.
For almost all athletic facilities, the consensus documents of the Illumination Engineering Society[1], the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers[2][3] provide the first principles for life safety. For business purposes, the documents distributed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association inform the standard of care for individual athletic arenas so that swiftly moving media production companies have some consistency in power sources and illumination as they move from site to site. Sometimes concepts to meet both life safety and business objectives merge.
The NCAA is not a consensus standard developer but it does have a suite of recommended practice documents for lighting the venues for typical competition and competition that is televised.
It welcomes feedback from subject matter experts and front line facility managers.
Our own monthly walk-through of athletic and recreation facility codes and standards workgroup meets monthly. See our CALENDAR for the next online Athletics & Recreation facilities; open to everyone.
Issue: [15-138]*
Category: Electrical, Architectural, Arts & Entertainment Facilities, Athletics
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Jack Janveja
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[1] Illumination Engineering Handbook
[2] IEEE 3001.9 Recommended Practice for Design of Power Systems for Supplying Lighting Systems for Commercial & Industrial Facilities
[3] IEEE 3006.1 Power System Reliability
* Issue numbering before 2016 dates back to the original University of Michigan codes and standards advocacy enterprise
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