Accreditation 300

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 the IEEE, IES and ASHRAE best practice catalogs.

Today we run through the development status of these products with specific interest in exterior illumination best practice.  This topic also is covered in the 4 time monthly meetings of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.

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

Periodic review of the best practice catalogs that set the standard of care for security of education communities.    Less electrotechnical as with Security 100 and 200 and more Regulatory and management codes and standards; a great deal of which are self-referencing.

https://standardsmichigan.com/security-300/

With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

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

Sixteen Dogs Cozying Up Next to the Fireplace

Status check on the catalog of best practice titles covering the management of education community snow and ice management during the coldest months in the Northern Hemisphere.

https://standardsmichigan.com/snow-ice/

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

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

After months of hard work, the top five teams met at USPTO headquarters today for the final round of the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. 🏆 And the winners are ... ⬇️

🥇 First place — @UofMNLawSchool pic.twitter.com/uwNSJR0oBy

— USPTO (@uspto) April 4, 2025

From creating a race car safety device that protects drivers from injury to revolutionizing chemotherapy, Spartans have contributed to more than 3,300 inventions. #SpartansWill pic.twitter.com/dchCs0BFBx

— MSU (@michiganstateu) February 21, 2025

For 58 years, 7-Eleven has been protecting its iconic semi-frozen soft drink, the Slurpee. But it doesn’t stop there. The store has more than 200 registered trademarks to protect its goods and services, including “Oh thank Heaven for 7-Eleven" in 1978 and “Brainfreeze” in 1993. pic.twitter.com/b9bkkcijGg

— USPTO (@uspto) July 11, 2025

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

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
-- Franny and Zooey" (J.D. Salinger)

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.

Alone is where the magic happens…apparently although I got so bored. This 10 mile run was the first time I’ve ran double digits since October 2021! The last two miles felt dreadful however, it’s done. I’m now going to smash a 🍕 #ukrunchat #training pic.twitter.com/fUP43c5yGi

— Lil Morris 🏃‍♀️ (@BlondeLilmo) February 3, 2024

My biggest wins come when I do things out of discipline even when I have no motivation. pic.twitter.com/ozSDYqdwiQ

— Travis Harrison (@TJHarrison22) February 9, 2025

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