What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | 20 February 2026
February 20, 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- UL Technical Committee 1691 Single-Pole Connectors call for members
- Call for ESTA TSP consensus body participants.
- FCC seeks comments on SpaceX data centers in space.
- ANSI public reviews: risk management; MTConnect; mobile ladder safety; quality management for government; multichannel audio assignments; green buildings; commissioning fire and life safety systems; integrated fire and life safety; storing aerosols; alternate approaches to life safety; safeguarding construction and demolition; fire-retardant wood and coatings; emergency procedures for construction and demolition; and LED lighting products.
- New ANS projects. bicycle usage; battery monitoring; coding drone-delivered cargo; battery management systems; structural welding code; off-site construction; and installing energy storage systems.
- Final actions on ANSs: casters and rollers; winches; rigging hardware; residential lighting; caster vocabulary; telling families about mass killings; and two addenda to ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1-2023
- TSP meeting schedule for Long Beach.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.