“View of the Colosseum” 1747 Giovanni Paolo Panini
Special event safety and sustainability — keeping large groups of people safe and engaged in the event itself — cuts across many disciplines. Educational settlements are ideal settings and the raison d’être for these communities everywhere.
Today we charge through the best practice catalogs of the following standards setting organizations:
American Society of Civil Engineers
Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American National Standards Institute
American Water Works Association
ASHRAE International
ASTM International
University of Colorado Boulder
Consumer Technology Association
International Code Council
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
International Standardization Organization
ISO/PC 250 Sustainability in event management (British Standards Institute is the Global Secretariat)
List of All ANSI ISO TAGS (There is no ANSI US TAG Administrator as of 1 October 2023)
National Fire Protection Association
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Telecommunications Industry Association
Underwriter Laboratories
At the moment we cover outdoor and indoor events because, conceptually, there is substantial overlap. It is likely, however, that in the fullness of time we will have to break down the coverage between exterior and interior events.
There are a number of titles from the foregoing short list of SDO’s that are open for consultation during the next 30 to 90 days so it is not likely we will have time to examine other niche SDO’s in the special event domain. For example:
There are others.
Action on open global and government consultations, and examination of developments in the research bibliography will have to wait for another day also. We cover them fairly well in the breakout meetings shown on our CALENDAR.
As always, today’s colloquium in open to everyone with the login credentials available on the upper right of our home page.
