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Ice Hockey Arena Lighting
National Collegiate Athletic Association: August 2022 IRS Form 900 Tax Filing
After athletic arena life safety obligations are met (governed legally by NFPA 70, NFPA 101, NFPA 110, the International Building Code and possibly other state adaptations of those consensus documents incorporated by reference into public safety law) business objective standards may come into play.For almost all athletic facilities, the consensus documents of the Illumination Engineering Society[1], the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers[2][3] provide the first principles for life safety. For business purposes, the documents distributed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association inform the standard of care for individual athletic arenas so that swiftly moving media production companies have some consistency in power sources and illumination as they move from site to site. Sometimes concepts to meet both life safety and business objectives merge.
During hockey season the document linked below provides information to illumination designers and facility managers:
Athletic programs are a significant source of revenue and form a large part of the foundation of the brand identity of most educational institutions in the United States. We focus primarily upon the technology standards that govern the safety, performance and sustainability of these enterprises. We collaborate very closely with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee where subject matter experts in electrical power systems meet 4 times each month in the Americas and Europe.
See our CALENDAR for our next colloquium on Sport facility codes and standards. We typically walk through the safety and sustainability concepts in play; identify commenting opportunities; and find user-interest “champions” on the technical committees who have a similar goal in lowering #TotalCostofOwnership.
Issue: [15-138]*
Category: Electrical, Architectural, Arts & Entertainment Facilities, Athletics
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Jack Janveja, Jose Meijer, Scott Gibbs
LEARN MORE:
[1] Illumination Engineering Handbook
[2] IEEE 3001.9 Recommended Practice for Design of Power Systems for Supplying Lighting Systems for Commercial & Industrial Facilities
[3] IEEE 3006.1 Power System Reliability
* Issue numbering before 2016 dates back to the original University of Michigan codes and standards advocacy enterprise
Electric Power Availability: Cold Weather Preparedness
PUBLIC LAW 109–58—AUG. 8, 2005 | ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005
January 25th Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and FERC: Docket No. AD06-6-000. Given the close coupling of electric and natural gas supply with respect to power reliability, the mind boggles at the hostility of the Biden Administration to natural gas anywhere on earth. Natural gas is critical to generation plant black start capabilities and hospitals, among others.
A selection of the presentations:
“Long Term Reliability Assessment” – Presented by Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer, NERC
“Grid Reliability Overview & Updates” – Presented by David Ortiz, Director of the Office of Electric Reliability
“Status of Standards and Implementation for Cold Weather Preparedness and Applicability to Nuclear Plants” – Presented by David Huff, Electrical Engineer, Office of Electric Reliability
“Gas-Electric Coordination Since Winter Storm Uri” – Presented by Heather Polzin, Reliability Enforcement Counsel, Office of Enforcement
“Overview of Power Reactor Activities” – Presented by Andrea Kock, Deputy Office Director for Engineering, NRR
“Grid Reliability Updates” – Presented by Jason Paige, Chief, Long-Term Operations and Modernization Branch, Division of Engineering and External Hazards, NRR
Related:
Utah State University: History of Probability
Sample Probability and Statistics Problem from Professional Electrical Engineer’s Examination
Heat Tracing Installation
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“Vue de toits (effet de neige)” 1878 Gustave Caillebotte
One of the core documents for heat tracing is entering a new 5-year revision cycle; a consensus standard that is especially relevant this time of year because of the personal danger and property damage that is possible in the winter months. Education communities depend upon heat tracing for several reasons; just a few of them listed below:
- Ice damming in roof gutters that can cause failure of roof and gutter structural support
- Piping systems for sprinkler systems and emergency power generation equipment
- Sidewalk, ramp and stairway protection
IEEE 515 Standard for the Testing, Design, Installation, and Maintenance of Electrical Resistance Trace Heating for Industrial Applications is one of several consensus documents for trace heating technology. Its inspiration originates in the petrochemical industry but its principles apply to all education facilities exposed to cold temperature and snow. From its prospectus:
This standard provides requirements for the testing, design,installation, and maintenance of electrical resistance trace heating in general industries as applied to pipelines, vessels, pre-traced and thermally insulated instrument tubing and piping, and mechanical equipment. The electrical resistance trace heating is in the form of series trace heaters, parallel trace heaters, and surface heating devices. The requirements also include test criteria to determine the suitability of these heating devices utilized in unclassified (ordinary) locations.
Its principles can, and should be applied with respect to other related documents:
National Electrical Code Article 427
NECA 202 Standard for Installing and Maintaining Industrial Heat Tracing Systems
IEC 62395 Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications
ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings
Lowell House / Harvard University
We are happy to explain the use of this document in design guidelines and/or construction specifications during any of our daily colloquia. We generally find more authoritative voices in collaborations with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets 4 times per month in Europe and in the Americas. We maintain this title on the standing agenda of our Snow & Ice colloquia. See our CALENDER for the next online meeting.
Issue: [18-331]
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Kane Howard
Category: Electrical, #SmartCampus
LEARN MORE:
Good Building Practice for Northern Facilities
Maslenitsa “Pancake Week”
University of Michigan: Celebrating Maslenitsa | Michigan State University: South Slavs in Michigan
Chicago Tribune: Russians Turn Great Lakes Area Into Another Baltic Sea
University of Michigan Slavic Languages & Literatures
Marquette University: A History of Slavic Studies in the United States
“At School Doors” 1897 | Nikolay Bogdanov-Belskyhttps://t.co/8FdvkJPUie
46454E4553544154494F4Ehttps://t.co/1GCno4M9EV pic.twitter.com/hOhpAxRd0Y— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) October 4, 2023
Midwestern Universities with the largest Slavic-American Communities:
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) – Strongest Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian communities
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Large Polish and Ukrainian student presence
- Ohio State University – Slavic student organizations, especially Polish and Russian
- University of Wisconsin-Madison – Known for Eastern European and Slavic studies programs
“The Schoolgirl Reading by Lamplight” 1943 Nikolai Bogdanov-Belskyhttps://t.co/JNZReyfSGBhttps://t.co/LZl3inf7HJ pic.twitter.com/QuEtw3J8FP
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) June 13, 2023
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Fireplace Safety
Many accommodations such as dormitories, fraternities and sororities have working fireplaces — wood burning and natural gas. Community spaces such as student unions, libraries and recreation spaces also have fireplaces as a central feature.
The purpose of NFPA 211 is to reduce fire hazards by discovering and promulgating best practice for the safe removal of flue gases, the proper installation of solid fuel-burning appliances, and the correct construction and installation of chimneys, fireplaces, and venting systems. The current 2019 Edition is linked below:
Free Access: NFPA 221 Standard for Chimneys, Fireplaces, Vents, and Solid Fuel-Burning Appliances
The 2024 has been released. To guide our inquiry into safety and sustainability concepts for the 2027 Edition we like review the developmental transcripts of previous edition:
Public comment on the First Draft of the 2027 Edition will be received until June 3, 2025. We encourage facility managers to recommend improvements to this standard by setting up a (Free) NFPA account the link below:
Online submission of public input and public comments
We maintain this standard on our periodic Prometheus and Housing colloquia. Consult our CALENDAR for the next online meeting, open to everyone
Link to parent standard:
University of Rochester Fireplace Safety
American Gas Association: How Natural Gas Fuels Your Holiday Traditions
Outdoor Deicing & Snow Melting
“Snow at Argenteuil” | Claude Monet (1875)
Today our focus turns to outdoor electric deicing and snow melting wiring systems identified as suitable for the environment and installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. They work silently to keep snow load from caving in roofs and icicles falling from gutters onto pedestrian pathways.
While the voltage and ampere requirement of the product itself is a known characteristic, the characteristic 0f the wiring pathway — voltage, ampere, grounding, short circuit, disconnect and control — is relatively more complicated and worthy of our attention. Articles 426-427 of the National Electrical Code is the relevant part of the NEC
Free Access 2023 National Electrical Code
Insight into the ideas running through technical committee deliberations is provided by a review of Panel 17 transcripts:
2023 NEC Panel 17 Public Input Report (633 pages)
2023 NEC Panel 17 Public Comment Report (190 pages)
We hold Articles 427 in the middle of our priority ranking for the 2023 NEC. We find that the more difficult issues for this technology is the determination of which trade specifies these systems — architectural, electrical, or mechanical; covered in previous posts. Instead, most of our time will be spent getting IEEE consensus products in step with it, specifically ANSI/IEEE 515 and IEEE 844/CSA 293.
Comments on the Second Draft of the 2026 NEC will be received until April 18th.
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We collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facility Committee which meets online 4 times per month in European and American time zones. Since a great deal of the technical basis for the NEC originates with the IEEE we will also collaborate with IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 18 whose members are charged by the IEEE Standards Association to coordinate NFPA and IEEE consensus products.
Issue: [19-151]
Category: Electrical, Energy
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Kane Howard, Jose Meijer
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Weddings
“Marriage is a duel to the death
which no man should decline”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Wedded” 1882 Lord Frederic Leighton
…”Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up;
but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!…
– Ecclesiastes 4:9
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“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” — Genesis 2:24
International Building Code §303.3 Assembly Group A-2
The Kilt
A few store lambs weighed and drafted off this afternoon, ready to be sold through Farm Stock Scotland @Farm_Stock 🐑🌱#sheepfarming pic.twitter.com/2qSnJvWCie
— Helen Georgina Marsden (@helengeorgina94) August 29, 2023
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— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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