- 0101.August.Saturday
- 0202.August.Sunday
- 0303.August.Monday
Construction Spend
We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month. We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.
N.B. We have migrated our “Model Building Code” content into to this session starting this month.
- 0404.August.Tuesday
- 0505.August.Wednesday
Who is the "User-Interest"?
Who it is. Why it matters.
The Standards Michigan platform routinely refers to the “User-Interest” in the global standards system and the dominance of “niche verticals” that determine the cost of education communities for the final fiduciary. Today at 11 AM/ET we drill deeper into this claim by reviewing the roster of a few technical committees administered by standards setting organizations. The dominance of every interest group over the user-interest will be in plain sight. You will also see that the dominance of all other stakeholders over the user-interest is not the fault of the niche verticals. It is the fault of the user-interest and may be an unresolvable “wicked problem”.
ANSI Essential Requirements: Due process requirements for American National Standards

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