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- 2222.March.Sunday
- 2323.March.Monday
Interiors
Today at 11 AM EDT we review the status consensus products (codes, standards, guidelines, recommendations and safety legislation) that set the standard of care for the design, manufacture and maintenance of interior fixtures such as carpet, furniture, bookshelves and ceiling tiles, plumbing fixtures. Waste management, laboratory fixtures, recycling amenities — i.e. things are not nailed down — are on the agenda. Also we track elevated interest and market-making by conformity interests in the manufacturing and material recycling far up the value chain.
In large research universities, it is common for building service personnel engaged in keeping facilities clean and tidy to constitute the largest proportion of permanent employees; thus some consideration must be given to occupational safety.
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- 2424.March.Tuesday
Power & ICT
Because so much of the #SmartCampus transformation involves electrotechnologies, we walk-through of public commenting opportunities on electrical power, telecommunication, information and communication technology standards twice per month. Coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 15:00 Central European time and 3:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas.
Electrical engineer/inventor Guglielmo Marconi with the spark-gap transmitter (right) and coherer receiver (left) he used in some of his first long distance radiotelegraphy transmissions during the 1890s.
- 2525.March.Wednesday
Federal Action
Today we walk-through of ANSI-accredited consensus, open-source and consortia consensus products incorporated by reference into federal regulations of the real assets of the US education industry. Send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.
https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-federal-state-regulations/
- 2626.March.Thursday
State Regulations
Today we walk-through of consensus, open-source and consortia codes and standards incorporated by reference into state regulations of the real assets of the education industry; including how they are financed through municipal bond offerings. Send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.
- 2727.March.Friday
- 2828.March.Saturday

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