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• Abiit sed non oblitus | James Earl Jones
• Small Pennsylvania town up in arms over plan to house hundreds of migrants in abandoned school
• ITU: September 12: “AI Ready – Analysis Towards a Standardized Readiness Framework Version 1.0 September 2024”
• Harvard Salient: Select Courses from the 2024-25 Catalog

🌟 Wrapping up an incredible week at the #ISOannualmeeting!

Thank you to our participants, speakers and organizers for making this year’s event a great success in Cartagena whether online or in-person! 🌏

Shout-out to our host @ICONTEC for their hospitality & dedication. pic.twitter.com/Ypykfr9eEj

— ISO (@isostandards) September 13, 2024

The University of Kansas | Douglas County

• University of Michigan Homecoming September 14
• ANSI: Enabling Standards Development Through Public-Private Partnerships
• IEEE: IoT-Enabled Water Management: A Low-Cost Framework for Sustainable Irrigation in Agricultural Farms and Home Gardens
  • University, Noakhali, Bangladesh
• 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft Transcripts on Grounding CMP-5
• ASHRAE 90.1 Electric Vehicle Charging Station Locations | October 6
• Enhancing Overall Voltage Level Reliability of Power Distribution Network through Comprehensive Analysis of Common-Mode Faults, and Voltage Level Integration
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Livelink to September 19 “Open Meeting” | N.B. Heavy on law, process and administration; light on scientific, engineering and financial detail

• Today’s Agenda for Accessibility Standard A117.1 09-12-2024 Agenda 63
• IEEE: New Scenarios and Trends in Nontraditional Laboratories
  • University of Distance Education UNED, Madrid, Spain
• 2026 National Electrical Code: CMP-14 Redline for Hazardous Location Wiring proposed changes
• ASHRAE 62.1 Indoor Air Quality Redlines | Comments due September 29 – October 6
• FCC Assistance for Hurricane Francine

• Public Comment for ASCE-SEI 24 Flood Resistant Design and Construction (Comment Deadline 9/26/24)
• IEEE 3D Environment to Train Engineers about Post-Earthquake Damages in Building Structure
• 2025 NFPA 72 Fire Alarm & Signaling Systems Second Draft Report
• FCC: Addressing the Homework Gap through the E-Rate Program | October 4

🔋 Day 3 of the #ISOannualmeeting begins with #EnergyTransition insights! Tune in now to dive into essential strategies for a sustainable energy future ⬇️https://t.co/89YWGLNwdO
🌍🌟#SustainaibleEnergy pic.twitter.com/yZl1Ogkchv

— ISO (@isostandards) September 11, 2024

Kent State University Fashion Studio in New York City

• 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft CMP-18 transcript for October Long Beach meetings
• ASHRAE 90.1 Addendum AR requires actual utilities rates or supply contracts from utilities or energy suppliers | October 6 
• Increasing the Efficiency of Lighting Systems as an Element of City Power Supply Systems
  • National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv 
• NEMA Endorsement (September 9): National Infrastructure Advisory Council RE: Transformer Supply Chain Security
  • Standards Michigan comment on related DOE NOPR
• (AS&U September 9): Iowa State begins teardown of 66-year-old LeBaron Hall

• ICC 2024 Group A Comment Agenda Published 9/5/24 (bottom of page)
  • Committee Action Hearings Group A #2 Hearings Schedule
• IEEE: Large Language Models in Education: A Systematic Review
  • Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
• 2026 National Electrical Code: CMP-15 Ballot Results | Others to be examined during IEEE E&H meetings | 2026 NEC Workspace
• ASHRAE 90.1 | More language for electric vehicle power pathway design with Chapter 8 mandatory provisions | October 6
• Consultation on IICRC S400 Standard for Professional Cleaning, Maintenance, and Restoration of the Commercial Built Environment closes October 6th (pp. 89.91)

Sheridan College Rodeo | Wyoming

• UL 1072 Standard for Medium Voltage Power Cables | Redline open for comment until September 29 (pp. 74-76) | Underwriters Laboratories: Perspective
• ATBCB NOPR: Accessibility Guidelines for EV Charging Stations: Comments due November 4th
• 2026 National Electrical Code: Public Comment Report for Healthcare & Assembly Facilities | See IEEE E&H Comment
• Federal Communications Commission: 26 September Open Meeting Agenda
• ISO TC 304 Multiple-Use Healtcare Textiles   | Healthcare Organization Management

• NTIA Seeks Comments on US Data Center Growth until November 4th
• Standard Profile for Communications with Distributed Energy Resources using IEEE Std 1815 Distributed Network Protocol | September 27
• ASTM International Student Project Grant Applications due October 31
• APA: Standard State Zoning Enabling Act and Standard City Planning Enabling Act
• ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2022, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality | October 14

• ITU (August 30): Global Treaty Radio Regulations 2024 Update available for download
• AS&U (August 29): Wake County (North Carolina) district needs $140 million in HVAC upgrades
• (August 30): ANSI Updated is list of accredited standards developers
• Reliability & Sustainability of Electrical Distribution System for University Settings
  • The National Engineering University, Batangas City, Philippines
• ASHRAE 189.3  Healthcare occupancy lighting power density revision receiving comments until September 22 

• August 13: Accredited Standards Committee X9 Launches Effort to Create Payment QR Code Standard
• Research on Energy Consumption in Data Centers
  • Beijing Jinnet Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
• August 14: U-M places in top 10 rankings among graduate programs
• H.R. 9331: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the excise tax on investment income of private colleges and universities
• NIST August 29: U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI

• Washington Post Opinion (August 28): “The federal government’s financial aid failure is a disgrace”
• Research on key Technologies of Power Supply Reliability Improvement in new Distribution Network
  • State Key Laboratory of Power Grid Environmental Protection, Wuhan, China
• CoStar News (August 27): British Columbia Provides Funding for Planned 1,500-Bed Student Housing Project in Vancouver
• Ticker (August 27): Why Northern Michigan College is Running Out of Student Housing 
• ITU(28 August): ITU publishes updated global treaty to optimize radio spectrum management and advance technological innovation

• Inside Higher Ed (August 28): Can Professors Get STEM Students to Vote? (A noteworthy, even shocking omission: no mention that most STEM students in US colleges and universities are foreign-born and cannot legally cast ballots in US elections)
• ASHRAE 100 (Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings) Addendum a adds new definitions for renewable and imported electricity among others.  Comments due September 30
• (August 16) H.R. 9362: To direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to improve interregional electricity transfer capability between immediately adjacent transmission planning regions
• New NFPA 800 Battery Safety Code seeks experts for technical committee
• AS&U August 19: Vanderbilt University wants to build $520 million campus in West Palm Beach, Florida

• ANSI August 23: Registration of Organization Names in the United States Comment Close Date October 22 (page 54)
• AS&U (August 26): University of Georgia plans 565-student freshman residence hall
• IEEE Guide for Power System Circuit Breaker Failure Protection (September 14)
• The Bond Buyer (August 20): Bill linking tax-exempt munis to school choice shows threats to market from ‘unrelated agendas’
• August 27 Every Year in Texas: Lyndon Baines Johnson Day 2024 | Related: Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963

• James Duderstadt, University of Michigan President Emeritus passes at 81
• A Review of Strategies for the Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Operation of Grid Enterprises
  • State Grid Artificial Intelligence Co., Jinan, China
• NIST Releases Second Public Draft of Digital Identity Guidelines for Final Review

• College student in Denmark uses metal detector to discover ancient jewelry

• August 22 Demand Letter to Barnard College RE: Harassment 
• AS&U August 22: $40 million high school renovation completed in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Recess is the best with kindergarten friends! #dg58pride pic.twitter.com/04OeE07e62

— Ms. Remus (@MsRemusK58) August 22, 2024

• Reliability Evaluation of Distribution Network Considering Charging and Discharging Characteristics of Electric Vehicles
  • School of Electric Power, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang, China
• The Electric School Bus Series: Successfully Operating in Cold Weather in Three Rivers, Michigan
• ISO-TC 304_N452_New Working Group Ballot for ISO-AWI 25199 GUIDELINES FOR PROCESSING OF MULTIPLE-USE HEALTHCARE TEXTILES
• NSF International Food Equipment Standards: Face-to-Face meetings in Ann Arbor October 16-17
• Inside Higher Ed (August 22): Higher Ed sector shrank by 2 percent.   161 institutions either closed, merged or otherwise lost Title IV status. 
  • (Comment: US Department of Education and NCES could do a better job making these statistics easier to find)

• Joint Transmit Power and Location Optimization for Covert Communication in UAV Assisted IoT Systems
• ASTM Pool Drowning Detection Standards
• International Code Council 2024 Conference & Hearings Schedule Released
• AS&U (August 19): Cherokee Nation breaks ground on language immersion middle school
  
• (August 20, Sources Various): Recent US Commerce Department Jobs Report shows 1 million job data points have gone missing
• Campus Safety (August 21): University of California Bans Encampments, Masking and Blocking Paths

• Autoweek May 7, 2024: $7.5 Billion in Federal Funds Yield Only 8 EV Charging Stations
• Public Consultation on IES RP-6 Recommended Practice: Lighting Sports and Recreational Areas closes October 7
  
• Eaton Corporation PLC 1-year stock price chart
• IEEE Southeastern Michigan: Transmission Planning for Renewable Energy and Load Growth (August 28th, David Mindham)
• US S3849 Promoting United States Leadership in Standards Act | Covered by NEMA | Standards Michigan tracking 118th Congress

• FM Global Research Campus West Gloucester Rhode Island: Tornado science on the big screen
• International Code Council 2024 Group A Proposed Changes to the I-Codes (Complete Monograph, 2658 pages) | See our CALENDAR for coverage ahead of October meetings in Long Beach
• UL Battery Testing Laboratory opens in Auburn Hills Michigan
• UVA Builds Next-Generation Heat Plant at Fontaine Research Park
• August 8 NACUBO:Public Institutions and Financial Responsibility Requirements
• 2026 NFPA 101 Life Safety Code: First Draft Meeting Minutes Educational and Day Care Occupancies (100 pages)

Iowa State University

• IEC August 17: Convergence of AI and Blockchain
• ICC Podcast July 24: Accessing Federal Grant Funding to Update Your Building Codes 
• 2025 NFPA 730 Guide for Premises Security First Draft Report 
• ASHRAE 90.1: DOE is adopting new and amended standards for electric motors
• Published 2024-08-09 IEEE Standard for Robustness Evaluation Test Methods for a Natural Language Processing Service That Uses Machine Learning

• Northwestern University: $ 800M Ryan Field Construction
• INCITS ISO/IEC Standard Harmonization Standards Consultation | Pages 3 through 11
• 2026 NEC First Draft: How Did We Get Here?
• FAFSA New Process Calendar
• American Wood Council Overview of ANSI/AWC FDS-2024 | August 22

• How Couples Meet: Data from 1930 to 2024
• AS&U: As many as 16 Pittsburgh schools could close under consolidation proposal
• Revise current ASME A17.5 – 20XX, Elevator and escalator electrical equipment | Consultation closes August 21
• Power Data Service Cost Measurement Mechanism Based on the Whole Life Cycle
• August 16: University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers

• NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
• Society for Standardization Professionals Paper Competition $1500 | Submissions due by September 27th
• Raymond James: Municipal Bond Investor Weekly 
• S&P Global August 8: Michigan Public Service Commission Response to DTE Energy Rate Increase Request
• ICC Accessibility Code A117.1 08-15-2024 Agenda 62
• FEMA: ASCE 24-14 Flood Resistant Design and Construction | Consultation closes September 26th

University of Maine | Penobscot County

• FERC Electric Transmission Facilities Permit Process
• IDEA: College of New Jersey District Energy Infrastructure Upgrade
• ISO/IEC Guide 59 “ISO and IEC recommended practices for standardization by national bodies”| Consultation Closes October 18, 2024 (pp 53-54)
• AS&U: Mismanagement of electric bus purchase in Montgomery County (Maryland) School District

• FM Global Technical reports supporting code change
• ISO/IEC 42001, Artificial intelligence – Management system,
• MPSC seeks input on proposals for penalties, incentives aimed at reducing frequency and duration of power outages
• Solar in Ann Arbor

• USPTO SXSW 2025 Panel Picker proposals | Open voting until August 18th
• Communications Status Report for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Debby | August 9, 2024
• August 6: IEC publishes first international standard developed entirely on OSD platform
• David Hittinger (Long time Standards Michigan collaborator) Elected to NFPA Board of Directors

• 2020 National Electrical Code CMP-11
• Biosafety Cabinetry: Page 73
• August 14, 2003 Largest North American Power Outage
• ICC BCAC | Comments to be presented at October Hearings

• St. Johns Public Schools voters nixed a $92M tax proposal 
• Bond failure prompts Whitmore Lake schools to scale back upgrade plans
• LAUSD board votes to add $9 billion school construction bond to November ballot 
• In 2024’s California, The Name Is Bond . . . Many Bonds

• U.S. v Google RE: Anti-trust on search
• FACT SHEET: NTIA AI Report Calls for Monitoring, But Not Mandating Restrictions of Open AI Models
• AS&U August 2: Texas A&M Downtown Fort Worth $260M Expansion
• IEEE PES August 19: Centerpoint Energy Inverter Based Resources

Femke Bol

• NEMA C12.2-202x, Standard Dictionary of Common Definitions, Terminology and Acronyms used by C12 Standards | Page 7
• Aquatic Sport Timekeeping
• Comments on an ASHRAE proposal for a performance standard for district cooling will be received until August 25, 2024

The highlights continue with our top 10 videos from the 2023-2024 school year. Number 6: A new accessible playground for Douglas Park Community School, which opened in March to the delight of many students. #MySD35Community pic.twitter.com/JO786lb6jJ

— Langley Schools (@LangleySchools) August 1, 2024

• Revision of BICSI 004, Information Communication Technology Systems Design and Implementation Best Practices for Healthcare Institutions and Facilities.
• 2026 NEC First Draft Report: CMP-16 ICT Safety Proposals | Comments Due August 28th
• Report (June 2024): Recommendations for Increasing U.S. Participation & Leadership in Standards Development.
• NIST/ANSI: View the USG NSSCET Implementation Roadmap 

Tilburg University

• Tilburg University: Redhead Days Festival August 23-25
• ASHRAE 145 Assessing the Performance of Laboratory Gas Phase Air Cleaning Systems | Comments due August 12
• IEEE C37.20.1 – Standard for Metal-Enclosed Low-Voltage Power Circuit Breaker Switchgear | Comments due August 25

N.B. IEEE Standards Association has one of the worst public review facilities in the global standards development system.  We get to say this because we are the original standards advisory group for the largest building construction market in the world and we see them all.  IEEE is “family” for us so we can say it with kindness. Regretfully  IEEE has done nothing about this problem for years.  We collaborate with the IEEE E&H Committee 4x per month in accessing draft standards which is a fair remedy for the obvious shortcomings.   More on this topic.

• Rise of the Mean Girl Gynocracy: Why aren’t men going to college anymore? (And should we care)?
• Nature (July 31): How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood
• IBC ASTM Playground References 10-01-2024 Public Comment 1

• ISO-TC 304_N442_Form 4 – ISO 25268 (ed1) Guidelines for Hospital Internal Logistics Services using Autonomous Mobile Robots (1)
• NIST: Updated Guidance on Artificial Intelligence
• NETA: Electrical Signature Analysis of Oil and Dray Type Transformers
• eCFR 47 Part 8 (July 25, 2024): Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet

Great pic at the ranch in Highmore, SD pic.twitter.com/2LRt1KL5Pw

— Brad Freking, DVM (@brad35962868) July 30, 2024

Down today for maintenance and upgrades.  Normal daily colloquia resumes tomorrow, July 30.

Spotting your mom in the crowd after winning Olympic gold just hits different 🫶@TeamUSA | #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/gVxnh37uyO

— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) July 27, 2024

• AS&U (July 19): 6000-bed University of California San Diego Student Housing Development – $2B
• IEEE (July 9): How Standards Drive Sustainable World-Class Events
• State of Michigan Electrical Administrative Board Meeting August 8th
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration News Releases July 2024

• US Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy | Comments on ASHRAE 90.1 as the “energy law of the land” due March 6, 2026 
• City of Ann Arbor Home Electrification Expo | August 2, 2024
• Orange County North Carolina | November 2024 School Bond Referendum

• University of Michigan Roster for 2024 Olympics
• University of Michigan Campus Connector RFQ
• Lalit Agarwal Named APPA President & Chief Executive Officer

• You Don’t Learn This in School: My Experience as a NIST Summer Intern
• ISO/IEC Guide 63-2019, Guide to the development and inclusion of aspects of safety in international standards for medical devices | Comments due October 18, 2024
• Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board: What Do Municipal Bonds Fund in Your Congressional District?

Arrived in Paris 🛬😎#Paris2024 | @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/ghetsgsDfv

— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) July 23, 2024

• IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee: July 23
• NACUBO Annual Meeting Buzz (Chicago)
• AS&U (July 17):  Cobb County School District Cancels Plans for $50M Event Center

Demystifying the graduate school application process with our #nanoREU students @OxfordCreamery 🍦 pic.twitter.com/4HLda9lhSC

— Nikki Reinemann (@OleMiss_MBELab) July 15, 2024

• MIT Technology Review: IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis
• IEEE: Guide for Blockchain in Power and Energy Systems | Comments Due July 15
• AS&U (July 12): HBCU in Louisville will restore 100-year-old building
• University of Kentucky (July 12): Athlete Riley Gains swims to Alcatraz with US Navy Seals

• USASpending.gov
• Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? | Max Planck Institute, University of Michigan
• AS&U June 27: Construction begins on new home for Harvard University’s American Repertory Theater
• Yale Journal of Regulation: Artificial intelligence and climate change

• USA Swimming 2024 Olympic Team Roster
• Risky Research Review Act