Calendar

Whatever anyone wants to talk about.

University of Leeds

Today we scan the revision status of best practice titles with a compressed public consultation timeline.  On “continuous maintenance” standards development platforms, for example, exposure drafts are open for comment for as little as 30 to 45 days.  There is scant time to respond to the call for public comment.  We set aside one session per month to review and respond.  This happens most frequently with “stabilized” standards — i.e. titles that receive relatively little public response when released for review — which does not necessarily mean they cannot be improved and brought up to the moment.

Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory

Because so much of the #SmartCampus transformation involves electrotechnologies, we walk-through live public consultation notices pertaining to the safety and sustainability agenda of education communities.  Our meeting today coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 14:00 Central European time and 2:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas.

An update on our collaboration with other like-minded units in the education industry in the US and other nations.  In most cases we conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.  Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the ISO, IEC and the ITU, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.

https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-international-standards/

Monthly walk through of redlines of consensus standards open for public comment and proposal preparation.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our homepage.  For an advance agenda send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email.

https://standardsmichigan.com/mechanical-engineering-monthly/

“Children in the Garden” (1892) / Władysław Podkowiński

Overview of the status of consensus documents that set the standard of care for the safety and sustainability of the campus outdoor environment.

“The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Monthly walk-through of code and standards revisions that are incorporated by reference (IBR) in state and local regulations, into education facility design guidelines and construction contracts.  Use the login credentials at the top right of our home page.

Periodic review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for security of education facilities.   Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda.

“Prometheus creating Man in the presence of Athena” (1802) / Jean-Simon Berthélemy

Monthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in education communities.   We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise.  Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda.

Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   Every month we run through public commenting opportunities for consensus documents that set the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises.

An overview of public commenting opportunities on proposed standards for sports and recreation equipment and athletic facilities.   Send email to bella@standardsmichigan.com for access to the agenda.

Columbia University

Review of best practice literature for the design, construction and maintenance of campus pathways for pedestrians and vehicles.

Today at 11 AM/ET we update our understanding of best practice literature relevant to the information and communication technology enterprises in education communities.  Our online meetings coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 14:00 Central European time and 2:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas.  Open to everyone.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

University of Wisconsin Stadium Elevator

Many education communities have 100’s of elevators and escalators.   This is a difficult space for driving costs down (because of strong manufacturer and labor presence) but we will give the “old college try”

Illumination technologies have had a pattern of consuming about 35 percent of building electrical energy use.  That number has been pressed downward with the expanded application of LED luminaires and occupant responsive controls; much of the transformation hastened by IEEE and ASHRAE consensus products.

Today we run through the development status of these products.  Our meeting coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 14:00 Central European time and 2:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas.

Washtenaw Community College

Today we refresh understanding of the regulations for Class D campus radio systems.  We review best practice for production technologies and FM transmission technologies through airwaves, cabling systems or a combination of both.

International Electrotechnical Commission

Today at 11 AM/ET we review live public consultation notices from cloud technology standards setting organizations with an eye toward minimizing costs associated with cloud vendor lock-in.

Today we walk-through state level adaptations of the consensus products of ANSI-accredited standards setting organizations incorporated by reference into state safety and sustainability regulations of education communities.

115th Congress. Photo Credit: Pew Research Center

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/

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Student Art

Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum.  Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten and prohibit leading practice discovery, how quickly goods and services become a “human right”, why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.

From the Wikipedia

In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.

https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1318508254658502657?s=20

On the day when voters in many states are presented with school bond referenda we select a representative sample of a tax-free bond issue.  We also review public consultation invitations by ANSI-accredited and finance industry consortia involved in the cost of US education communities