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.
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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/
Status check on standards action that guide laboratory safety and sustainability in all building disciplines. There are about ten standards developers in this space and they do not all move in a coordinated manner among themselves; much less from state-to-state. Anyone is welcomed to join this teleconference with the login information below. For an agenda, please join our mailing list.
https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-laboratories/
https://youtu.be/zHAl1PHcQyU?si=LYF8wOYY9Lvqx_o1
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/
"He who does not speak foreign languages
knows nothing about his own.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
We observe National Poetry Month 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/
Latin Phrases You Should Know. pic.twitter.com/Erq61gVW29
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) May 5, 2024
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
https://standardsmichigan.com/acca-air-conditioning-standards/
https://standardsmichigan.com/wood/
https://awc.org/codes-and-standards/
This planned new addition at the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture is so much more than classrooms and office space. It's a living laboratory for students. Learn how #masstimber is playing an integral role in this project. #BuildWithWood https://t.co/bhyg5n3jKz
— American Wood Council (@woodcouncil) August 15, 2024
Review of development in safety and sustainability best practice catalogs for education community outdoor environment.
https://twitter.com/gmkov/status/1691080398200053762?s=20
https://twitter.com/gmkov/status/1691080398200053762?s=20
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/
Monthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in educational settlements. We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise. Send [email protected] an email for an advance agenda.
Choir of King's College | Cambridge
@KingsCollegeChoirhttps://t.co/PLWdl2bWXh pic.twitter.com/jmKPiElqiq— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 14, 2023
In Greek mythology Prometheus is the Titan god of fire & credited w/ creation of humanity w/help from goddess Athena & defying other gods by giving fire to hasten civilized Manhttps://t.co/SKtP0DHqgN@EmoryUniversityhttps://t.co/W9CeH5MeaN pic.twitter.com/DiAOzfiTy7
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 14, 2021