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“Time is a passionate sculptor of men, the sun stands over it, a beast of hope and you,
closer to it, embrace love with a bitter taste of a tempest.”
—Odysseus Elytis (Nobel Laureate 1979)
Today we take a retrospective look at 2025 and a prospective look at 2026. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Our new office: Across State Street from our first South Athletic Campus office on Oak Valley Drive. We will recode our footer to reflect this.
“Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.”
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.
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AS 4000 General Conditions of Contract has been updated for the first time since 1997! Join our free webinar to unpack the changes: 🗓 12 Aug | 🕐 1–2PM AEST | 💻 Online – register now: https://t.co/zX1UXo2EK7 pic.twitter.com/EiK0EO0CSo
— Standards Australia (@standardsaus) July 14, 2025
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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.
Once median household income is adjusted for cost of living, Utah emerges as the wealthiest state in the nation and Mississippi yet again ranks last. Source: https://t.co/AN3JZqtNnF pic.twitter.com/kv8U3LZlvh
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 3, 2025
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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