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Many colleges and universities are flattening their organizations by reducing in-house architectural and engineering staff -- if they had much of an in-house staff at all. While outsourcing technical disciplines may reduce overhead, it comes at the cost of the campus setting becoming fully realized as a community asset because a coherent vision is lost in the absence of a technical culture informed by an historical understanding. Founded by facility professionals at one of the largest university campuses in the world SmartCampus.US is a platform for preserving expertise and developing new expertise for the emergent Internet of Everything and the Smart Campus transformation.
Update provided by NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation Project (Evaluation of Electrical Feeder and Branch Circuit Loading) Principal Researcher, Tammy Gammon Videorecording of NFPA Research Foundation Project Teleconference — Evaluation of Electrical Feeder and Branch Circuit Loading – Now Available
Temperature sensors at every building on a campus may not be economical in all cases. At the University of Michigan, with a campus footprint of several square miles and hundreds of buildings across 3 campuses, only 2 temperature sensors have been used for the past 25 years and rarely do building control experts ever […]
NFPA International will release the 2017 revision to NFPA 780 Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems before the end of this year; typically ahead of the NCAA football season. This is the parent standard for lightning protection of outdoor athletic venues anywhere; not just enterprises within the education industry. As an installation […]
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