I have a soapbox about the futility and absurdity of the continuing ed requirement for licensure. I'm very much in favor of continuing ed - I just think most of what passes for CEU credit isn't very educational, and merely greases the wheels of commerce, without providing any value to the public in exchange for the requirement.
But I still have to come up with the credits, so I've chosen to overachieve, as usual, and I'm actually learning something. In "Cracking The Codes", by Barry D. Yatt, part of the NCARB Professional Development Monograph Series, he says that ASTM actually has twenty-one standards for 'whole building functionality and serviceability'. He lists:
- E1664 - Layout and Building Factors
- E1667 - Image to the Public and Occupants
- E1669 - Location, Access, and Wayfinding
- E1692 - Change and Churn by Occupants
- E1701 - Manageability
Next time I find myself in an academic library, I need to get my hands on these. They were published in 1995, and according to Yatt, can be seen as 'tools developed by experts based on historic precedent.' I've always wondered why architecture seems to be documented in a novelistic way, rather than in a scientific one.