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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) is an American organization that operates Texas 's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, [3][4] which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. [5] ERCOT is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United ...
The WELL Building Standard began in 2013 by Paul Scialla of Delos company, becoming the first well-being standard focused, administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). Green Business Certification Inc. from LEED certification is a third-party certified WELL. By the 2016, over 200 projects in 21 countries adopted the ...
Texas Interconnection. The two major and three minor NERC Interconnections, and the nine NERC Regional Reliability Councils. The Texas Interconnection is an alternating current (AC) power grid – a wide area synchronous grid – that covers most of the state of Texas. The grid is managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
IP code. The IP code or ingress protection code indicates how well a device is protected against water and dust. It is defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under the international standard IEC 60529 [1] which classifies and provides a guideline to the degree of protection provided by mechanical casings and electrical ...
ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1: Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard published by ASHRAE and jointly sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) that provides minimum requirements for energy efficient designs for buildings except for low-rise residential buildings (i.e. single-family homes ...
Commissioning (construction) In construction, commissioning or commissioning process (often abbreviated Cx) [1][2][3] is an integrated, systematic process to ensure, that all building systems perform interactively according to the "Design Intent", through documented verification. The commissioning process establishes and documents the "Owner's ...
Pavement condition index. The pavement condition index (PCI) is a numerical index between 0 and 100, which is used to indicate the general condition of a pavement section. The PCI is widely used in transportation civil engineering [1] and asset management, and many municipalities use it to measure the performance of their road infrastructure ...
The facility condition index (FCI) is used in facilities management to provide a benchmark to compare the relative condition of a group of facilities. The FCI is primarily used to support asset management initiatives of federal, state, and local government facilities organizations. This would also include universities, housing and ...