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mike@standardsmichigan.com

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  • Sherman Act 1890

    All day
    2025.07.02

    The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which prohibits anticompetitive practices and monopolies, has an indirect but significant relationship with voluntary consensus standards (VCS). VCS are industry-developed standards created through collaborative, open processes to ensure interoperability, safety, or efficiency in products and services.

    1. Antitrust Concerns in Standard-Setting: The collaborative nature of VCS development, where competitors work together to set industry standards, can raise antitrust concerns under the Sherman Act. If standard-setting organizations (SSOs) or participants engage in practices like price-fixing, market allocation, or excluding competitors, they could violate Section 1 of the Act, which prohibits agreements that unreasonably restrain trade. For example, if an SSO excludes certain firms from participating in standard-setting to suppress competition, it could face scrutiny.

    2. Procompetitive Benefits: Courts and regulators generally recognize that VCS, when developed transparently and inclusively, promote competition by fostering interoperability, reducing costs, and encouraging innovation. The Sherman Act supports such procompetitive activities as long as they don’t involve collusion or exclusionary tactics. Guidelines from bodies like the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emphasize that SSOs should adopt open, fair processes to avoid antitrust violations.

    3. Legal Precedents: Cases like Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. Indian Head, Inc. (1988) illustrate the Sherman Act’s application to VCS. In this case, the Supreme Court found that manipulating a standard-setting process to exclude a competitor’s product violated the Sherman Act. This underscores the need for SSOs to ensure their processes are not abused to suppress competition.

    4. Patent and FRAND Issues: VCS often involve patented technologies, requiring fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms. If patent holders abuse their position by demanding excessive royalties or refusing to license, this could be seen as monopolistic behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which addresses unilateral conduct that harms competition.

    The Sherman Act ensures that VCS processes remain competitive and do not become vehicles for collusion or monopolistic behavior. SSOs must design their procedures to comply with antitrust laws, balancing collaboration with the prevention of anticompetitive practices.

  • Year Round Campus

    All day
    2025.07.02


    https://standardsmichigan.com/vacation-bible-school/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/summer-meals/

     

  • Ædificare

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.02

    LIVE: Construction Cameras

    “Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    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.

     

    https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4

  • Redundant space

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.02

    Here are terms of art commonly used to describe low occupancy rates or low space usage factors in schools, colleges, and universities:
    1. Underutilization – Refers to spaces or facilities in educational institutions that are not used to their full capacity.
    2. Low Occupancy Rate – The percentage of available space or seats in a facility that remains unoccupied during a given period.
    3. Space Utilization Rate – A metric indicating the extent to which physical spaces (classrooms, labs, etc.) are being used, often low when spaces are underused.
    4. Idle Capacity – Describes resources or spaces within an institution that are not actively used or scheduled.
    5. Excess Capacity – When the available space or facilities exceed the demand or actual usage.
    6. Low Enrollment Impact – Refers to reduced space usage due to lower-than-expected student enrollment.
    7. Vacant Space – Areas within a campus (e.g., classrooms, dorms, or offices) that remain unoccupied or unused.
    8. Underused Facilities – Buildings, rooms, or resources that are not fully engaged in academic or operational activities.
    9. Space Inefficiency – A term describing the suboptimal use of available space relative to its potential.
    10. Ghost Space – Informal term for areas that are rarely or never used, remaining empty for extended periods.
    11. Unoccupied Seat Ratio – The proportion of available seats in classrooms or lecture halls that are not filled.
    12. Facility Downtime – Periods when spaces like auditoriums or labs are not in use.
    13. Low Utilization Factor – A metric used in space management to indicate below-optimal use of facilities.
    14. Empty Classroom Syndrome – A colloquial term for classrooms that remain empty or sparsely used during scheduled hours.
    15. Space Surplus – When the available physical space exceeds the institution’s current needs.
    16. Non-Optimized Space Allocation – Refers to the inefficient assignment of spaces for classes or activities, leading to underuse.
    17. Low Footfall Areas – Campus zones with minimal student, staff, or visitor traffic, indicating low usage.
    18. Unused Capacity – Similar to idle capacity, focusing on resources or spaces that are available but not utilized.
    19. Vacancy Rate – A term borrowed from real estate, used to describe the percentage of unused space in dormitories or other facilities.
    20. Scheduling Inefficiency – Low space usage due to suboptimal scheduling of classes or events, leaving spaces empty during peak hours.
    21. Dormitory Underoccupancy – Specific to residential facilities, where dorm rooms or beds remain unassigned or empty.
    22. Classroom Vacancy – Refers to empty or underused classrooms during scheduled academic hours.
    23. Space Redundancy – When institutions maintain more space than necessary for their current operations.
    24. Low Space Efficiency – A broad term for spaces that are not used effectively in terms of time, capacity, or purpose.
    25. Operational Underuse – Describes facilities that are not fully integrated into the institution’s operational or academic activities.
    These terms are often used in facilities management, enrollment planning, and campus space optimization discussions to address inefficiencies and plan for better resource allocation. If you need further clarification or examples for any of these, let me know!
    explain space utilization
    campus sustainability initiatives
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  • Morrill Land-Grant Act | Veris sementis

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.03

    “The transformation of traditional agriculture is crucial for the development of an economy. It is the productivity gains in agriculture that can free up resources and labor to contribute to growth in other sectors.” — Theodore W. Schultz

    https://standardsmichigan.com/readings-morrill-land-grant-act/

     

  • Nourriture Été

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.03

    “Spring Turning” 1936 Grant Wood,

    Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in K-12 schools, college and university student housing, athletic venues and university-affiliated healthcare systems.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

     

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  • USA National Holiday

    All day
    2025.07.04

    USA National Holiday

  • “Fourth of July” Berklee College of Music

    All day
    2025.07.04

    https://youtu.be/_0Cqf4EnAi4?si=d4lOphv0f2u6eeNv

    https://youtu.be/ykFuYN-yc-M

    https://youtu.be/Gv1aIcxBfoU

    https://youtu.be/DIZ3Q_MvlsY?si=9bE3e8lAc0PPm9ke

  • Flags

    All day
    2025.07.04

    National independence Day Holiday in the United States.  No colloquium today.

    Wheaton College Illinois

    Flags

     

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  • Rain & Lightning

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.09

    Lightning flash density – 12 hourly averages over the year (NASA OTD/LIS) This shows that lightning is much more frequent in summer than in winter, and from noon to midnight compared to midnight to noon.

    https://youtu.be/zisnPchVYKs

    https://standardsmichigan.com/rain-2/

     

  • Prime Minister’s Questions

    All day
    2025.07.09

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  • Lively 400 Odeons

    All day
    2025.07.11

    https://standardsmichigan.com/outdoor-amphitheaters/

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  • Bastille Day

    All day
    2025.07.14


  • Intellectual Property

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.14

    Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators

    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.

    Related:

    Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

     

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  • Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.15

    Middle Georgia State University

    One hour overview of NEMA, SAE, IEEE, NFPA, UL and ICC public input and comment on safety and sustainability standards for electric vehicle charging stations.  As usual, our focus is on marking up consensus documents, signing them and submitting them to the appropriate technical committee so that you may receive a formal response.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/ibc-education-facility-assembly-spaces/

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  • “London Calling” School of Rock

    All day
    2025.07.16

  • Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.16

    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.

    Let your memory be your travel bag.”

    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”)

    Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations.  We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization 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 International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iec-2021/

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/time-frequency-services/

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/

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  • Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.21

    “He who does not speak foreign languages
    knows nothing about his own.“

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     

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

     

    Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web:

    English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6%

     

    One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding.  As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things.  So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.

    We begin 2025 by breaking down this topic into four sections

    Language 100: Survey of vocabulary in the standards catalogs relevant to building and managing education settlement real assets; including legal terms.

    Language 200: Electrotechnology standard catalogs; including computer programming languages.

    Language 300: The English as the language of science and innovation; the birthplace of computing and programming, the internet’s native tongue, standardization & open source development; etc.

    Language 400: Reserved.  Received Pronunciation


    We observe National Poetry Month (April) in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities.

    In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry.

    Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide.

    In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia.  Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English

    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

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  • 22/7

    All day
    2025.07.22

    22/7

  • Data Centers

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.22

    “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian

    Status check on open source consensus products — and practical applications —  evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.

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  • Media

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.23

    We review best practice literature in the field of audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment greatly expanded in the Massive Online Open Online Course  and #LearnFromHome zietgeist.  These titles include specification of the performance, methods of measurement for consumer and professional equipment and their application in systems and its interoperability with other systems or equipment.  Multimedia is the integration of any form of audio, video, graphics, data and telecommunication and integration includes the production, storage, processing, transmission, display and reproduction of such information.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/summer-solstice-around-the-world/

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  • “Friday On My Mind” The Telephones

    All day
    2025.07.25
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • Fine Arts 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.25

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    There are written fine arts standards that have been developed by various organizations and educational bodies. These standards provide a framework for what students should know and be able to do in the arts at different grade levels. Here are a few examples of fine arts standards:

    National Core Arts Standards: The National Core Arts Standards were developed by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards and outline what students should know and be able to do in dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts at different grade levels.

    State Fine Arts Standards: Many states have their own fine arts standards that are aligned with the National Core Arts Standards but may be tailored to reflect the unique needs and priorities of the state; e.g., State of Ohio Fine Art Standards

    International Baccalaureate Arts Standards: The International Baccalaureate (IB) program offers arts standards as part of their curriculum framework for the arts. These standards are designed to develop students’ creative and critical thinking skills in the arts.

    Arts Education Partnership National Standards for Arts Education: The Arts Education Partnership has developed national standards for arts education that cover the four major artistic disciplines: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

    Today at 15:00 UTC we drill into the technical specifics that contribute to the safety and sustainability of spaces used for the teaching, practice and

    display of the fine arts.  These occupancies are typically at greater risk than classrooms because they usually contain volatile fluids for artistic painting

    or biologic specimen preservation, kilns for pottery, fabrics and related machinery for teaching fashion design and practice.  

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  • “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” Chorhaus St.Michael

    All day
    2025.07.26
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    The Chorhaus St. Michael is a choral organization and community hub based in Dormagen, Germany, specifically within the Catholic parish of St. Michael. It serves as a “house for singing,” fostering a wide range of musical activities, particularly choral music, for people of all ages. Founded in 2012, it acts as an umbrella organization for various musical groups and activities associated with the five churches of the St. Michael parish in Dormagen. The organization emphasizes creating a vibrant, inclusive community through music, offering programs for children, youth, and adults, with around 400 members across 12 ensembles ranging in age from 4 to 89 years.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/was-it-normung/

  • “Wasps Overture” Ralph Vaughn Williams

    All day
    2025.07.26
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • Electrical Training Alliance

    All day
    2025.07.28-2025.07.31

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  • Human Resources

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.28

    “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    — Franny and Zooey” (J.D. Salinger)

    Famous People Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

    Periodic walk-through of Human Resource best practice catalog for labor markets generally; and units within the education facility industry specifically.   We inform our discussion based upon today’s release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Recommended Reading:

    “The Human Side of Enterprise” 1960 Douglas McGregor

    University of Chicago Press: Readings in Managerial Psychology

    For an advance agenda send a request to bella@stanardsmichigan.com.   Use the credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in.

    They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad - William Shakespeare

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  • Tax-Free Bonds

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.30

    “Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers

    Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/

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  • Mobility 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.31

    https://standardsmichigan.com/mobility-400/

    https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?si=oWt0eI9rdPk5zLBe

  

 

 

 

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