#it has to be impact/meet egress/etc.

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Emergency Escape And Exit Functions Of WPC Door Frames

As a key component of building safety, the emergency escape and egress functions of WPC (wood plastic composite) door frames are of particular importance in the context of the ever-increasing safety standards of modern buildings.WPC (wood plastic composite) door frames are increasingly being used in public buildings, commercial establishments and residential homes due to their excellent performance. In this paper, we will discuss the advantages of WPC door frames in emergency escape and emergency exit and its key functions.

Basic Characteristics Of WPC Door Frame

WPC door frame is a new type of environmentally friendly material made of wood fiber and plastic composite, which combines the advantages of wood and plastic, with high strength, waterproof, moisture-proof, fireproof, corrosion-resistant and other characteristics. These characteristics make WPC door frame in the face of emergencies, can maintain good stability, not easy to deformation or damage, so as to protect the safety of personnel escape.

The Role Of WPC Door Frame In The Emergency Escape

1. Fire resistance

WPC material after special processing, has good flame retardant properties. In the event of fire, WPC door frame can effectively slow down the spread of fire, for personnel to fight for valuable escape time.

2. High strength and impact resistance

In an emergency, people may panic and put more pressure on the door body, WPC door frame is not easy to break or deform due to its high strength and good impact resistance, which can ensure a smooth escape route.

3. Moisture and corrosion resistance

In some humid or rainy areas, traditional wooden door frames may be deformed or rotted due to moisture, affecting normal use. WPC door frames have good moisture and corrosion resistance, and can maintain stability for a long time even in harsh environments, ensuring the reliability of emergency exits.

4. Low smoke and non-toxic

Traditional wooden door frames will produce a lot of harmful gases when burning in a fire, while WPC materials burn with less smoke and do not release toxic gases, reducing the risk of injury or death due to inhalation of toxic fumes.

WPC Door Frame In The Application Of Emergency Exit

1. Quick opening design

Emergency exit door frames usually need to be equipped with a quick-opening system so that people can quickly evacuate in an emergency, and WPC door frames can be combined with intelligent electronic locks, push-bar escape locks and other equipment to improve the efficiency of the use of emergency exits.

2. Fluorescent marking and guidance function

In case of fire, earthquake and other emergencies, lighting may be affected, so WPC door frames can be equipped with glow-in-the-dark or fluorescent signage to guide personnel to find the direction of exit quickly and improve the efficiency of escape.

3. Anti-theft and security

Emergency exit doors not only need to be able to be opened quickly in an emergency, but also need to prevent break-ins in everyday situations, and WPC door frames can be combined with anti-theft systems to ensure security.

4.Intelligent management

Modern buildings are more and more inclined to intelligent management, WPC door frame can be linked with intelligent access control system and fire alarm system to realize remote control and automatic unlocking, and improve emergency response ability.

Application Scenarios Of WPC Door Frame

1.Commercial buildings

Shopping centers, office buildings, hotels and other places are crowded with people and have high security requirements for emergency exits, and the fire and impact resistance of WPC door frames can meet the needs of these places.

2.Public places

Public facilities such as airports, stations, schools, hospitals, etc. need to be equipped with efficient and reliable emergency escape systems, and WPC door frames combined with intelligent locks and evacuation indication systems can improve the efficiency of passage in emergencies.

3. Homes and Apartments

In homes and residential buildings, WPC door frames can be used not only for moisture-proof and fire-proof doors, but also as escape routes door frames for children's rooms and elderly rooms to improve the safety of living.

Conclusion

WPC door frames play an important role in emergency escape and emergency exit due to its multiple advantages such as fire resistance, moisture resistance, impact resistance and intelligence. With the continuous improvement of building safety standards, the application of WPC door frames will become more and more widespread, providing a more solid guarantee for the life safety of personnel. In future building design and safety management, WPC door frames will become an important part of the emergency exit system, contributing to the creation of a safer living and working environment.

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Extend AWS Scalability Beyond the AWS Cloud with an Event Mesh

AWS gives you unparalleled flexibility and scalability in managing and processing your data. It can help you extend your reach, build innovative solutions, and reduce your time to market. However, when you look at getting your AWS data into motion and into other public clouds, their complex array of messaging and queueing tools can limit your scalability, introduce security gaps and risks, impact your time-to-market, and build-up avoidable expenses.

Guaranteed Delivery, Fan Out, Ordering – Why Not SNS/SQS?

AWS offers a few options for sending persistent, time-sensitive messages and for supporting event-driven architecture. At first glance, it may seem like Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) have all your bases covered for fanout, guaranteed delivery, reliability, scalability, and ordering – but there are limitations you should be aware of that could impact your business.

You may already know that SNS only guarantees delivery if the endpoint is accessible, with a limited number of retries before being lost. SNS and SQS are commonly used together to overcome the challenges of asynchronous messaging – including guaranteed delivery – but, unfortunately cannot tackle the challenge of message ordering.

When working with data that is real-time and needs to be delivered in order – in a market data scenario, for example – the AWS messaging services will typically give you a choice between SNS (to publish the values of a stock) and SQS (to accept and deliver the stock price). When the order of messaging is important, AWS offers SQS FIFO (first-in-first-out). This sounds like an ideal match for its distributed publish-subscribe system (SNS), especially since SQS FIFO supports exactly once delivery. Unfortunately, SNS and SQS FIFO are incompatible – SNS can only feed into standard queues (best-effort ordering, delivered at least once).

In an event-driven system, there are many cases where data is time-critical, has many consumers, and the order of delivery is important. A combination of these solutions or a few workarounds may get you by, but one needs to also consider the other limitations of a solution that relies only on AWS messaging.

How AWS Limits Your Ability to Use Other Clouds and Platforms

The bigger challenge emerges when you are looking to use best-of-breed services from multiple platforms and clouds. The AWS messaging services cannot extend to other clouds, which forces you to egress all data at significant cost, compromises data lineage, and requires your developers to learn how to implement multiple APIs within the AWS cloud and in other platforms.

The bottom line is this: you need multiple AWS messaging/integration services to deliver common business use cases. Naturally, this makes design and management more difficult. Even then, it’s mostly restricted to inside the AWS cloud – which may not be easy to work with.

This diagram shows the utility of Solace PubSub+ vs. the various AWS tools at your disposal, in context of how easy it is to deploy them in AWS.

For use cases that span multiple platforms and require real-time data distribution, enterprises benefit from a loosely coupled, distributed system that uses the same API and consistent features to ingest and deliver traffic. Standardization of features, code, pricing, etc. would help developers focus on the use cases rather than the plumbing.

This can be accomplished by deploying code through the cloud, your virtual private cloud, or an on-premises appliance to gather and deliver events across a network of event brokers – or an event mesh.

How PubSub+ and an Event Mesh Gets Data Moving Better than AWS’s Own Services

PubSub+ is an event streaming and management platform that helps enterprises design, deploy, and manage event-driven applications across on-premises, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and IoT environments so they can be integrated and event-driven.

PubSub+ lets you:

Build services that can be replicated or ported between clouds and platforms without code changes

Scale up or down and still control your costs

Achieve excellent performance even when you implement message ordering, guaranteed delivery, and high availability

Single Platform Standardization

AWS provides 5 different services to distribute information and events, each of which meets some data distribution requirements. Here’s a summary of what most customers need in this area, and how the AWS integration/messaging services (and PubSub+) can meet those needs.

Taken together, AWS services check all the boxes. But they don’t work on the same set of APIs, aren’t priced the same way, and can’t be deployed in any and all environments that you choose for your distributed enterprise. Relatively speaking, PubSub+ is a Swiss Army knife that meets all these needs in one platform and in a distributed environment.

A significant factor here is application portability.

When microservices interface with PubSub+ Event Broker, they can be ported as-is between data centers and cloud platforms. These services are coded not to interface with SQS/SNS/EventBridge APIs or Kinesis, but to interface over – for example – JMS with PubSub+.

While AWS mainly has a cloud-only software form factor, PubSub+ can be deployed as an appliance, software, cloud, or a combination of all.

Giving You Performance Without Added Complexity

AWS provides scalability, global reach, and unparalleled cost-efficiency across its wide spectrum of services.

Working in conjunction with AWS, PubSub+ can help move events and data in and out of the AWS cloud. It will also glean relevant events/messages from outside the AWS cloud and push them to relevant AWS services. A customer can architect and efficiently govern data mobility through topic filters.

In AWS, the recommended way to decouple the producer and consumer is by hopping through event routers (SNS, EventBridge) and queues (AMQ, SQS, etc.).

Each such interaction or traffic flow needs active oversight, and developers spend cycles on:

Building and maintaining bespoke integrations, e.g.:

Events originating from an HTTP endpoint feeding through EventBridge into Amazon SQS to another HTTP endpoint.

A developer would love to standardize on SNS streaming events into an SQS FIFO queue for in-order delivery, but that combination is not supported.

Building new message pathways with a different logic for each use case, e.g.:

Neither SQS nor SNS supports request-reply natively and only two distinct pathways can deliver a command and control type use case. So, a command sent through SNS to IoT endpoints to stop all conveyor belts in a factory will not get acknowledgement on the same channel.

Such complexities can be counterproductive and distract developers from building based on business logic to not having to spend time to learn and then design around oddities that should not exist in the first place.

What will be ideal for developers and architects is a simple way to tie multiple ends of their distributed architecture together – while not being excessively concerned with managing messaging patterns or having to build parallel pathways for transactions that are naturally bi-directional.

PubSub+ is made precisely to meet these needs in a distributed environment.

Developers benefit from:

A simple, single API that ties brokers across clouds and platforms.

Unlike SQS – which polls to get data from a queue – PubSub+ will push data into any and all environments to an interested subscriber.

Eliminated complexity by streamlining traffic flows through dynamic topics.

The source can produce traffic at virtually any rate and the streams can be abstracted and distributed based on dynamic and hierarchical topics on the platform.

Contain In-Motion Data Within Your Governance Perimeter

SQS, SNS, and EventBridge cannot be deployed inside a VPC in the AWS cloud, so these “public” services might put your data beyond your governance perimeter.

AWS proposes that an enterprise interface with these services using a VPC endpoint and a secure link, but SQS, SNS, and EventBridge services are “public” by design. That said, when messages leave your VPC into the AWS public services realm, you lose direct control over the location of your messages because AWS will replicate data across zones/regions to deliver their promised availability.

In contrast, PubSub+ Event Broker: Software can be deployed on the AWS cloud instance of choice, either inside a VPC (BYOL) or through a cloud formation template and peered with AWS services.

It also gives you control over how you move your data out of the AWS cloud, lets you glean relevant events/messages, and lets you push data to relevant AWS services.

These options help contain in-motion data within your operations and governance perimeter.

Examples Where PubSub+ Augments the Power of AWS

Global Airline

This airline needed a solution to distribute flight events across their various applications and lines of business in real-time, and it had to align with its cloud-first strategy. The main objective was to put batch data from Amadeus (a leading booking and operations platform) into motion and use services in the AWS cloud to action on key events.

PubSub+ Cloud interfaces with the customer’s VPC in AWS cloud and streams events and data between their IBM mainframe-based applications and AWS services.

Smart City Project in Asia

The IoT sensors on a city bus publish MQTT messages to a topic that contains the bus’s current coordinates.

SNS requires pre-determined topics configured and coded into the publishing/subscribing applications. Without wildcard character support, a restriction on the number of topics per account and a limit of 200 filter policies per region, SNS cannot support a use case where each new latitude/longitude pair is the “topic” on which a city bus transmits data. On the consumer end, systems can filter down on wildcards and not be restricted by a limitation on a number of filter policies per region.

With 5,500 buses constantly sending messages with changing topic destinations, it was impractical to build an efficient solution for this using AWS SQS, SNS, or EventBridge.

With PubSub+ our client can gather and filter down actionable data from all the buses in real-time. They filter relevant data and process it on-premises and also in the AWS cloud to make real-time decisions on their network.

To Recap: Enhance the Value of Your Systems with PubSub+

By making cloud-native services pervasive, AWS has enabled mature enterprise customers to build complex workloads with high agility and with great impact. Customers that are working to strengthen their hybrid cloud architecture (while building a path to multi-cloud) will benefit from a high performance, standardized, and governance-ready data movement layer.

PubSub+ is field-proven in enhancing the value of our customer’s investments in AWS and will help extract value from your entire application ecosystem, including microservices, SaaS, cloud services, legacy apps, mobile devices, and the IoT.

Try out Solace PubSub+ for free on AWS Marketplace.

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12 Benefits Of Utilizing A Colocation Data Center

Organizations of any size can benefit from purchasing a colocation data center plan. When you start to factor in the costs of building an on-premises data center versus leasing server colocation space, the choice between the two options becomes crystal clear.

Data center colocation provides your business with peace of mind that can’t be attained without a significant investment in data center infrastructure. With this in mind, let’s examine these 12 benefits of using a colocation data center.

Location

In real estate, you’ll often hear agents say that the most important thing is “Location, location, location.” When you choose a colo provider, location will be of the utmost importance.

If you are running your main production servers from a colo site, you’ll want to ensure that you have the lowest ping time possible. This is achieved by selecting a data center that is physically close to your main headquarters. Luckily, colo data centers are strategically placed in geographic areas that will provide your business with low ping times and robust bandwidth.

Buy Exactly What You Need

One of the big advantages of a colo hosting plan is that you can buy exactly what you need. If you only require a 10Mbps circuit for your servers, you can select this option when buying your plan.

If your business requires a faster uplink, your colo provider can certainly provide a bigger pipe for more bandwidth. Colo hosting plans let you buy exactly what you need and if you need more space, bandwidth or power, getting more resources is just a phone call or email away.

Remote Hands

One of the biggest concerns about data center colocation is what to do when you need to perform a physical upgrade or a physical hardware swap. With Remote Hands, Certified NOC engineers are available to perform any task that your business might require in terms of a hard reset of a server, a memory upgrade, a hard drive upgrade, etc.

Rack and Stack Services

If you are starting your first data center colocation project, many businesses may not be aware that they can get “Rack and Stack” services as part of their agreement.

This simply means that you can preconfigure your network security devices with your pre-assigned ranges of public IPs. Next, you’ll provide the power and network cabling along with explicit instructions on how to plug in the devices.

This allows your servers to be up and running in no time. Your IT employees aren’t even required to visit the data center for the initial install.

99.99% Network Availability

Most data centers have redundant dark fibers running into the facilities that are owned and operated by a wide array of telecommunications carriers.

This strategy should help businesses feel confident about selecting a data center colo partner because if one network backbone fails, the colocation data center provider can instantly failover onto another provider without any noticeable downtime.

Industry Recognized Certifications

When you select a data center colocation plan, your business can rest assured knowing that the facility you select has industry recognized certifications such as SOC, SSAE, and ISO. These certifications are earned through strict adherence to internationally recognized standards that ensure the integrity and physical security of your data.

Corporate Compliance

Many organizations must meet PCI, HIPAA and other complex corporate compliance standards. When you start researching data center colocation, you’ll find that many data centers have these corporate compliance measures baked into their everyday practices.

This gives your business peace of mind about the internal processes used by the colo facility that you choose.

Physical Security

How would you feel if someone walked right into your datacenter, unracked your servers and walked right out with your data in hand?

You might feel a little sick to your stomach just playing this scenario out in your mind. With a data center colocation plan, you can rest assured that uniformed security is always monitoring all physical ingress and egress points of entry.

Every data center visitor must present a non-expired state-issued ID before gaining access to the facility. Once a person has gained access, their every move is monitored using CCTV cameras.

Environmentally Friendly

Did you know that data centers are more environmentally friendly than ever? Many data centers are strategically placed near utility companies that have implemented wind, solar, hydroelectricity, and other renewable energy sources.

Other data centers have the advantage of being able to use free cooling methods. This reduces the carbon footprint of your colo data center while simultaneously passing on the cost savings to your company.

Budget Compatible

Getting data center space for your business is probably less expensive than you think. Go ahead and do the math. How much would it cost your organization to build out raised floor space, bring in premium bandwidth, install racks and cages alongside an enterprise HVAC unit?

Expandable, On-Demand

Data center space is offered on an economy of scale model. When you buy more space, the data center is able to offer you a better deal. Best of all, you can build as you go and continue to add more rack space as your workloads continue to grow.

Your workloads do not need to be in the same racks in order to operate properly. Your business just needs to have the networking know-how in order to make your workloads work in synchronicity.

Perfect for Disaster Recovery

If you aren’t comfortable using a server colocation plan for your organization’s production workloads, you might want to start your colocation journey by using a colo data center as a disaster recovery solution.

This allows you to “Flip the switch” when your business is faced with a service impacting outage.

Once you become comfortable using a colocation data center for your disaster recovery plan, you can begin to think about implementing colo for your production workloads.

This is a great alternative to cloud solutions and best of all, you control everything from the server hardware to the replication software that you use to create your colo hosted disaster recovery plan.

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Going To Church Makes People Happier

Going To Church Makes People Happier. Regular churchgoers may heroine more fulfilling lives than stay-at-home folks because they create a network of close friends who provide outstanding support, a new study suggests. Conducted at the University of Wisconsin, the researchers found that 28 percent of forebears who attend church weekly say they are "extremely satisfied" with life as opposed to only 20 percent who never be associated with services secretion. But the satisfaction comes from participating in a religious congregation along with airless friends, rather than a spiritual experience, the study found. Regular churchgoers who have no close friends in their congregations are no more meet to be very satisfied with their lives than those who never attend church, according to the research. Study co-author Chaeyoon Lim said it's great been recognized that churchgoers report more satisfaction with their lives argentina. But, "scholars have been debating the reason". And "Do happier mortals go to church? Or does going to church make kinsmen happier?" asked Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison acnespotgel.herbalhat.com. This study, published in the December egress of the American Sociological Review, appears to show that going to church makes men and women more satisfied with life because of the close friendships established there. Feeling close to God, prayer, reading scripture and other devout rituals were not associated with a prediction of greater satisfaction with life. Instead, in cabal with a strong religious identity, the more friends at church that participants reported, the greater the distinct possibility they felt strong satisfaction with life. The study is based on a phone survey of more than 3000 Americans in 2006, and a reinforcement survey with 1915 respondents in 2007. Most of those surveyed were mainline Protestants, Catholics and Evangelicals, but a mundane number of Jews, Muslims and other non-traditional Christian churches was also included. "Even in that midget time, we observed that people who were not going to church but then started to go more often reported an enhancement in how they felt about life satisfaction". He said that people have a deep need for belonging to something "greater than themselves". The sense of sharing rituals and activities with close friends in a congregation makes this "become real, as opposed to something more summary and remote". In addition to church attendance, respondents were asked how many end friends they had in and outside of their congregations, and questions about their health, education, income, effort and whether their religious identity was very important to their "sense of self". Respondents who said they experienced "God's presence" were no more like as not to report feeling greater satisfaction with their lives than those who did not. Only the reckon of close friends in their congregations and having a strong religious identity predicted feeling exceedingly satisfied with life. One reason may be that "friends who attend religious services together give spiritual-minded identity a sense of reality," the authors said. The study drew a skeptical response from one expert. "Some of their conclusions are a spoonful shaky," said Dr Harold G Koenig, overseer of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. The learning showed that religious identity is just as important as how many friends a person has in their congregation also a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the university. The avenue the data was analyzed ensured that the spiritual factors (prayer, vehemence God's love, etc.) would not be significant because people with a strong religious identity were controlled for, or not included in the analysis, according to Koenig. "Religious congruence is what is driving all these other factors". Social involvement is important, "but so is faith". Lim said the matter show that only the number of close friends at church correlates with higher indemnity with life. The study acknowledged the importance of religious identity, as well as number of friends, suggesting that the two factors support each other. "Social networks forged in congregations and well-supported religious identities are the key variables that mediate the positive connection between religion and life satisfaction," the inquiry concluded. Lim said he wanted to examine whether social networks in organizations such as Rotary Clubs, the Masons or other civic volunteer groups could have a alike impact, but it might be difficult. "It's condensed to imagine any other organization that engages as many people as religion, and that has similar shared identity and social activities garmin edge male mount. It's not undemanding to think of anything that's equivalent to that".

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playground safety

The info specified listed below need to be used as a standard to minimize injuries related to playground tools. Nevertheless, it is believed that these suggestions, along with the technical info in the ASTM Standards for Public Playgrounds will add to better playground safety.

Just what is a Public Playground?

A public playground refers to one intended to be utilized by kids ages 6 months with 12 years in commercial childcare facilities, establishments, several household dwellings, parks, dining establishments, resorts as well as colleges.

Info in this Short article:

General playground safety and security factors to consider Playground products as well as surfacing Determining certain playground risks and how to stop them Correct actions had to maintain a playground and its' equipment Making use of systems, guardrails as well as protective barriers to minimize unintentional drops There are 7 vital elements you should remember when laying out your playground:

Availability: The surface material has to allow access to the equipment for youngsters with impairments.

Age Splitting Up: Locations for various age should be separated by a buffer zone. This zone will certainly lower the opportunity of injury by youngsters of varying activity levels running into each various other.

Age: Various play grounds are structured for various age groups. The safety and security requirements vary with each age. Bear in mind the age group that will certainly be using the playground and also purchase accordingly.

Clashing Tasks: The playground needs to be organized right into sections to stop injury from overlapping activities. Make certain to place swings and merry-go-rounds toward an edge, side or side of a backyard. Slides need to not be put in a busy area.

View Lines: Visual barriers must be decreased to ensure that caretakers, parents or managers could track kids using the playground. Benches placed around the beyond the structure permit onlookers a place to sit while they enjoy the children.

Signs and/or Identifying: Indicators must be provided to give the individuals advice regarding the age relevance of the devices, in addition to ways to appropriately use the equipment.

Supervision: See to it the supervisor recognizes the standard security guidelines of the equipment. When picking a website for a playground, there are a couple of factors that are necessary to take into account:

Travel patterns to and from the playground: Exist any kind of dangers in the means? If so, clear the risks.

Neighboring availability risks (traffic, bodies of water, steep hillsides, and so on): Could a youngster unintentionally or purposefully face a neighboring threat? If so, supply a method to contain kids within the playground (fence, bush). Know that the fencing or hedge should still enable monitoring by supervisors.

Sunlight exposure: Is the sun's warm adequate enough to heat steel components, slides, platforms, steps or emerging sufficient to melt kids? Will users be subjected to the sunlight throughout one of the most intense component of the day? If so, think about positioning it so the bare metal is shaded. Supply warnings that the equipment will certainly be hot in the sunshine. Consider shielding the playground with a color framework.

Slope and drain: Will loose fill material wash away in the rain? If so, consider proper water drainage to stop rinse. When installing a playground, use devices and also hardware approved by the maker. Follow the directions EXTREMELY meticulously or hire a playground installer. Bear in mind to maintain all materials from the manufacturer as well as begin a meticulous document of all examinations as well as upkeep. Extensively examine the devices prior to the very first usage, including the hardware.

Wood:

Creosote-treated wood (railroad connections, telephone poles, etc) as well as layers which contain pesticides ought to not be used. Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) was an old chemical that was made use of to treat wood, including wood playgrounds. Since 2001, this treatment is not secure it is known to corrode certain products faster than others. Steel:

Prevent using bare metal for platforms, slides or actions. In straight sunshine, bare metal could end up being extremely hot and cause get in touch with shed injuries. Use plastic coated steel, plastic or timber. Covering the playground with a shelter is constantly the most effective alternative. When finishing existing bare steel or using plastic covered metal, take into consideration:

Producer should guarantee that customers can not ingest, inhale or soak up potentially dangerous quantities of preservative chemicals as a result of contact. All paints must meet the CPSC (Consumer Item Safety Payment) law for lead paint. Painted surfaces ought to be maintained on a regular basis to avoid rust as well as deterioration. Equipment:

Things to check pertaining to equipment:

All fasteners, ports and also treatments must not be detachable without the use of devices. All exposed equipment must be smooth to the customer to prevent lacerations, penetrations, or fabric complication threats. Equipment in moving joints should be secured against unintentional or unapproved helping to loosen. All equipment ought to be corrosive resistant. Bearings or bushings made use of in relocating joints ought to be self-lubricating or very easy to oil. All S-hooks and C-hooks should be closed (no gap or space higher than 0.04"). An appropriate playground surface is one of the most crucial factors in reducing injuries that happen when children fall from equipment. The surface area under the playground equipment should be soft enough and also thick enough to soften the impact of a youngster's loss. Grass as well as dust are not suggested for appearing product as a result of water and natural weathering which could happen at a drastic rate. There are two sort of surfacing material: unitary and also loose-fill.

Unitary materials are usually ASTM examined rubber floor coverings or a pour-in-place power soaking up material. These kinds of appearing alternatives are excellent for kids and handicap accessible playgrounds as well as are typically more costly compared to loose-fill materials.

CCA dealt with timber mulch, gravel or dirt are not acceptable forms of loose-fill material.

Loose fill products will certainly compress at least 25% in time because of utilize and weathering so it is a smart idea to load the usage area with greater than the advised fill level. For example, if the playground will certainly require 9 inches of wood chips after that the initial fill degree need to be 12 inches.

Appropriate Emerging:

Any product examined to ASTM F1292, including unitary surface areas, crafted wood fiber, and so on . Pea gravel Sand Shredded/recycled rubber compost Wood mulch (not CCA-treated). Wood chips. Inappropriate Emerging:.

Asphalt. Carpeting. Concrete. Dirt. Yard. CCA-treated wood. When choosing playground tools, it is necessary that you bear in mind just what the desired age group will be. Children of different ages and phases of growth have different needs and also capacities. Play areas are created to motivate a youngster's creative imagination while establishing new skills. If you are picking a playground for an institution or public park, you must examine your state's standards on incorporating handicap easily accessible play structures in the playground.

Some tools is not recommended for public playgrounds consisting of: trampolines, swinging entrances, large strides, climbing ropes that are not safeguarded at both ends, rope swings or hefty metal swings. Tools such as systems, tipped systems, guardrails and also barriers, hand rails, and also indicates to access and also egress from play equipment have different guidelines for the different age groups (young children, preschool, and school-age child). It is necessary to understand that guardrails are not meant for young children as it is very easy for them to creep via.

It is less complicated for a kid to climb up than it is for them to climb down. Bear in mind to offer different techniques to accessibility and also egress from the play structure so different ability degrees will really feel comfortable using the devices.

There are 6 major groups of playground threats:.

Crush and Shear Things: Crush and shear points could be triggered by components relocating relative to each various other, or to a fixed part, throughout a regular use cycle, such as with a seesaw. To identify if there is a crush or shear point, take into consideration: the likelihood a youngster can get a body part inside the point and the shutting pressure around the point.

Entanglement as well as Impalement: Drawstrings on hoods of coats, sweatshirts, as well as other top body garments can come to be entangled in playground devices, and could trigger fatality by strangulation. To avoid this, get rid of any kind of ropes, canine leashes, or comparable things connected to playground equipment and also prevent devices with ropes that are not protected at both ends. Forecasts on playground devices should not be able to entangle kids's clothing neither should they be huge enough to impale.

Entrapment: Going entrapment can occur feet first or head first. Openings can offer an entrapment threat if the range between any interior rival surfaces is higher than 3.5 inches and much less compared to 9 inches. Kids can end up being allured by partly bound openings, such as those created by two or even more playground parts. To minimize entrapment hazards of stepped platforms, infill ought to be utilized to minimize the space in between tipped platforms.

Sharp Factors, Corners as well as Edges: Any sharp side or point could create significant lacerations. To prevent the threat of injury make certain that wood parts are smooth and also not splintering, all edges are rounded and also all steel sides are rolled or have rounded capping.

Suspended Hazards: Put on hold components ought to be put far from high website traffic areas, brilliantly tinted and need to not loop back on themselves.

Stumbling: Playgrounds ought to be without any kind of tripping risks such as quick adjustments in elevation, securing gadgets and also control wall surfaces for loose-fill surfacing. All playground locations ought to be inspected for too much wear, deterioration as well as any potential threats. For each and every piece of equipment, the frequency of complete evaluations will certainly depend upon the type and also age of the tools, the quantity of use as well as the regional climate. To assist ensure your loose-fill surfacing level stays adequate and also is not displaced, it must be inspected frequently and raked back into its correct place if required. When examining loose-fill surfacing materials, pay specific attention to locations under swings and also at slide departures, pooled water on mulch appearing and also areas of frozen emerging.

Records of the following should constantly be maintained:.

Maintenance inspections. Fixings. Accidents or injuries. Systems must be typically level with openings that permit water drainage. A tipped platform should have a gain access to part if the difference between systems is 12" for kids or 18" for school-age customers. Access to platforms over 6 feet high (except for complimentary standing slides) ought to supply an intermediate standing surface to ensure that the kid could stop briefly as well as make a decision to maintain going or find another method down.

Guardrails as well as protective obstacles are utilized to lessen the likelihood of unintended drops from elevated platforms, nevertheless; protective obstacles provide better defense for kids. Guardrails should be high enough to secure the highest kid from falling over the leading as well as low enough that the smallest child can not stroll under it. Barriers are not needed if it will certainly hinder the planned use of the tools, such as climbing up tools.

Guardrails or protective obstacles ought to be given on the following:.

Raised platforms. Walkways. Landings. Stairs. Transitional surfaces. There are numerous aspects to consider when selecting the best playground for any type of exterior area. The above info are the fundamental security policies in order to help youngsters travel to and from the playground, to identify any type of prospective threats near your backyard and exactly what barriers on the unit will interrupt the line of sight of those monitoring the children at play.

[theokbrowne]

Leasing Retail Space for Medical Office Use

As consumer demand shifts towards faster and more convenient medical services many healthcare providers are taking a closer look at leasing retail space for medical office use. This can be a great strategy for medical office users however as they evaluate retail locations it’s important that they consider a few things.

Retail Properties Infrastructure May Not Be Acceptable

Retail shopping centers were built for the traditional retail tenant. The cost to build a retail building is less than a medical office building as medical office buildings require more infrastructure. Medical office users such as urgent cares, surgery centers, clinics, etc., have vastly different needs than a retail store. For example the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC requirements may not meet medical office standards.

Tenant Mix

A high traffic shopping center may look like a great location for a medical office however you need to evaluate the impact that the tenant mix could have to parking and getting into and out of the retail center. Do you want to be next to a major grocery store or next to a big box retail tenant that generates a ton of street and parking lot traffic? There are some benefits however those may not be not as desirable as a smaller retail strip center that has more convenient parking. As consumers focus more on convenience and less on the provider it’s important that you look at easy ingress and egress.

Ideally you want to be located in a retail center with somewhat comparable tenants. Being next to a Planet K may give your medical office a negative image. Looks for locations that have tenants that you think your clients respect and use.

Parking

Convenient parking is one of the main reasons you would consider leasing retail space for medical office use as this will enhance the patients overall experience. Easy in and easy out. Look for highly visible, smaller shopping centers in densely populated neighborhoods with above standard demographics. If you lease space in a large shopping center or big box power center your patients may have to compete for parking spaces and since those are mainly found on major thoroughfares getting to and from may take longer.

Tenant Improvements Costs are Higher

Medical office property owners are more familiar with the build-out requirements of medical users and typically offer larger tenant improvement allowances. Shopping center owners are not familiar with medical office buildouts and don’t typically provide as much allowance. Medical officer users have a great demand for landlord funded tenant improvement allowances which can make things challenging.

Medical office buildouts typically range from $70 to $150 sf and this does not include FF&E. When negotiating a lease for medical use in a retail shopping center you may have to sign at least a 7-10 year lease to get an allowance equal to what you would from a medical office building owner. 

Lease Contract

Retail lease contracts are different from medical office leases and fail to address the key components of medical tenancy.  Most retail leases will be boiler plate and focus on retail tenants. Below are a few things to consider when evaluating a retail lease contract for medical office use. 

Permitted Use – there maybe a clause in the lease that does not allow medical use which would need to be stricken entirely. Medical tenants would also want to ensure that they can get an exclusive and that no other tenant has an exclusive that would prevent medical use. For example Walgreens or CVS may have an exclusive right to medical services.

Power & Compliance – Some medical tenants may have higher electrical needs (e.g. X- ray machines, CT scans, MRI, and other diagnostic equipment) or back up generator needs so it’s important to ensure you have language that defines and allows this. Also, medical tenants have HIPPA and other standards to adhere to so make sure the retail shopping center contract addresses this in detail.

Relocation clause – Its common for retail leases to have a relocation clause that allows the landlord to relocate them if needed. Because of the cost of a medical office buildout any relocation clause should be stricken from the lease.

Liens – Many healthcare practices finance improvement costs as well as medical equipment and other FF&E. Therefore make sure that the landlords lien rights are subordinate to the tenants.

Restoration – Some leases may have a clause that requires a retail tenant to restore the space to original condition before they move out. As a medical office user you want to strike this request.

Privacy – Retail landlords typically negotiate the right to enter the space to show prospective tenants or ensure compliance with the lease and/or make repairs. Healthcare providers need to limit this access to exam rooms and patient record rooms.

At the end of the day you need have a real estate attorney that specializes in medical office spaces review the lease. Healthcare providers have unique needs and before leasing retail space it’s important that you ensure the retail location can accommodate your current and future medical space needs.

[nicholemhearn]

Leasing Retail Space for Medical Office Use

As consumer demand shifts towards faster and more convenient medical services many healthcare providers are taking a closer look at leasing retail space for medical office use. This can be a great strategy for medical office users however as they evaluate retail locations it’s important that they consider a few things.

Retail Properties Infrastructure May Not Be Acceptable

Retail shopping centers were built for the traditional retail tenant. The cost to build a retail building is less than a medical office building as medical office buildings require more infrastructure. Medical office users such as urgent cares, surgery centers, clinics, etc., have vastly different needs than a retail store. For example the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC requirements may not meet medical office standards.

Tenant Mix

A high traffic shopping center may look like a great location for a medical office however you need to evaluate the impact that the tenant mix could have to parking and getting into and out of the retail center. Do you want to be next to a major grocery store or next to a big box retail tenant that generates a ton of street and parking lot traffic? There are some benefits however those may not be not as desirable as a smaller retail strip center that has more convenient parking. As consumers focus more on convenience and less on the provider it’s important that you look at easy ingress and egress.

Ideally you want to be located in a retail center with somewhat comparable tenants. Being next to a Planet K may give your medical office a negative image. Looks for locations that have tenants that you think your clients respect and use.

Parking

Convenient parking is one of the main reasons you would consider leasing retail space for medical office use as this will enhance the patients overall experience. Easy in and easy out. Look for highly visible, smaller shopping centers in densely populated neighborhoods with above standard demographics. If you lease space in a large shopping center or big box power center your patients may have to compete for parking spaces and since those are mainly found on major thoroughfares getting to and from may take longer.

Tenant Improvements Costs are Higher

Medical office property owners are more familiar with the build-out requirements of medical users and typically offer larger tenant improvement allowances. Shopping center owners are not familiar with medical office buildouts and don’t typically provide as much allowance. Medical officer users have a great demand for landlord funded tenant improvement allowances which can make things challenging.

Medical office buildouts typically range from $70 to $150 sf and this does not include FF&E. When negotiating a lease for medical use in a retail shopping center you may have to sign at least a 7-10 year lease to get an allowance equal to what you would from a medical office building owner. 

Lease Contract

Retail lease contracts are different from medical office leases and fail to address the key components of medical tenancy.  Most retail leases will be boiler plate and focus on retail tenants. Below are a few things to consider when evaluating a retail lease contract for medical office use. 

Permitted Use – there maybe a clause in the lease that does not allow medical use which would need to be stricken entirely. Medical tenants would also want to ensure that they can get an exclusive and that no other tenant has an exclusive that would prevent medical use. For example Walgreens or CVS may have an exclusive right to medical services.

Power & Compliance – Some medical tenants may have higher electrical needs (e.g. X- ray machines, CT scans, MRI, and other diagnostic equipment) or back up generator needs so it��s important to ensure you have language that defines and allows this. Also, medical tenants have HIPPA and other standards to adhere to so make sure the retail shopping center contract addresses this in detail.

Relocation clause – Its common for retail leases to have a relocation clause that allows the landlord to relocate them if needed. Because of the cost of a medical office buildout any relocation clause should be stricken from the lease.

Liens – Many healthcare practices finance improvement costs as well as medical equipment and other FF&E. Therefore make sure that the landlords lien rights are subordinate to the tenants.

Restoration – Some leases may have a clause that requires a retail tenant to restore the space to original condition before they move out. As a medical office user you want to strike this request.

Privacy – Retail landlords typically negotiate the right to enter the space to show prospective tenants or ensure compliance with the lease and/or make repairs. Healthcare providers need to limit this access to exam rooms and patient record rooms.

At the end of the day you need have a real estate attorney that specializes in medical office spaces review the lease. Healthcare providers have unique needs and before leasing retail space it’s important that you ensure the retail location can accommodate your current and future medical space needs.

[gotohelentai]

On October 9, Wawa and their representatives (attorney, traffic engineer, engineer) shared the sketch plan of the proposed Wawa to the Solebury Township Planning Commission (STPC). Over 75 members of the public attended. Note that a sketch plan is not a formal submission, but rather a high level proposal that allows the applicant to get feedback from the boards and public. If and when Wawa moves ahead with the project, they would need to submit a formal land development proposal. Approval would be needed from the boards of both NH and Solebury as well as the Zoning Hearing Boards of each municipality..

NOTE: Wawa had originally planned to present their sketch plan to the Solebury Township Board of Supervisors next Tuesday. However, after receiving the feedback last night, this meeting will be postponed to November or early next year.

Wawa has more than 750 stores in 6 states; 550 of them have fuel. They are phasing out standalone stores except in specific situations such as urban settings or college campuses.

The basic plan: located at corner of Route 202 and Sugan Road (partially in New Hope, partially in Solebury), 5600 SF convenience store, 6 fueling stations, entrances on both Sugan Rd & Route 202, 69 parking spaces, and open 24/7. Existing Wawa would be sold for noncompetitive use.

They also provided additional information on proposed lighting (LED), safety measures (fiberglass tanks, automatic shutoff), and traffic impacts. They would widen Sugan Road, put in left turn lanes for entrances at both Sugan Road and Route 202, as well as left turn lanes on both the north and south sides of the intersection (assuming they receive approval from PennDOT and the two municipalities).

The following is an overall summary of the questions and concerns from the STPC and the public.

Increased traffic – this was by far the most prevalent concern.

Traffic on both Sugan and 202 is already very heavy; a Super Wawa will increase the traffic. There is particular concern that those wanting to proceed south on Route 202 will need to make a left turn on Sugan Road and then another left turn onto 202.

How will the gas delivery tanker get out? Space is tight - will block traffic

Ingress/egress for the Eagle Fire Company – EFC is located across the street and is a volunteer fire company. Volunteers already have difficulty entering because of the traffic. Fire trucks leaving the site would likely have difficulty getting out. Wawa mentioned that they could install a device with flashing lights for when fire trucks leave (but this does not help with the ingress of volunteers)

Delay in EMS response – a delay of seconds or minutes could be the difference between life and death in a serious emergency like a stroke.

Ingress/egress to New Hope Manor – service providers come in and out of the retirement community all day – their entrance is directly across the street from the proposed Wawa entrance on Sugan Road

Pollution & Safety – water, air, noise, light

Water – if there is a leak or spill, it could contaminate the aquifer, which is the drinking source for many residents, including those in North Pointe, Fieldstone, Wilshire Hunt and other neighboring homes.

Air – the vents are not far from the high power transmission lines – what if it catches fire? (this happened at a natural gas vent near Phillips Mill)

Noise – 24/7 traffic sounds

Light – 24/7 means lights will be on all night

Children – many kids bike past the location on the way to school – concern about  accidents due to increased traffic

What are the impacts/benefits to the community?

Has a study been done to demonstrate that we need 6 gas pumps? Wawa stated that 2/3 of the gas customers will be people already driving by (not necessarily New Hope or Solebury residents)

Wawa representative confirmed that prices will not be competitive with NJ as the gas tax in PA is so much higher, however, a PA resident could save themselves a drive across the border

Will they do a study on the impact to home values? No, Wawa will not do a study but believes it will not have a negative impact.

Solebury may not receive any significant tax revenue and would need to shoulder infrastructure costs like increased police presence needed with more transient customers.

Property ownership issues

One of the lots shown in Wawa’s plan belongs to York Place, a 7-member condo association (New Hope Photo, ME Salon, Pierre’s, etc.), but they have not been contacted.

Another business owner has exclusive rights to three parking spaces which are also shown on the plan.

Alternative ideas

Several residents asked if they had considered other locations that might be more appropriate. They responded that no other locations were viable.

Several residents stated that the current Wawa is too small and the parking lot is dangerous. They like having a Wawa in the neighborhood but suggested that a larger Wawa without a gas station would be better as it is a community based. Wawa reiterated that they are phasing out standalone Wawas.

Put in something that has higher community value and low traffic like a medical facility