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This collection includes resources from the Building Automation Systems (BAS) program at Georgia Pedmont Technical College (GPTC). These resources include a 33-page guide and six program development documents from the B.E.S.T. Center 2013 Winter Workshop. This program prepares students for a career...

This 59 page report, sponsored by California Energy Commission Pubic Interest Energy Research (PIER), provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of commissioning as it pertains to energy performance in buildings. Commissioning is a type of risk management used to assess "access, safety,...

In this video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Jingjing Liu from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab discusses how building demand/load flexibility helps support the power grid and the CalFlexHub initiative. CalFlexHub is a program aimed at "building up a...

This paper, by scholars at Purdue University in building construction management and computer graphics technology, discusses building information modeling (BIM) and its incorporation into several academic departments at Purdue. The paper discusses integration of BIM in these departments: Computer...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2023 Annual Institute and covers building performance standards. During this video, the presenter talks about "... how building performance standards work to lower building...

This video from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center is part of the center's 2023 Annual Institute. In the video, Joshua Kace describes building performance standards (BPS) for decarbonization. Kace provides background and contextual information on BPS, as well...

In this video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Joshua Kace and Nora Hart from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab discuss two initiatives to decarbonize buildings: building performance standards (BPS) policies and the Better Climate Challenge (BCC). Kace...

This webinar, published by the Center for Workforce Development, is part of a series on technology and instructional issues. In this presentation, Dr. Jeff Bertrand introduces viewers to virtual reality, focuses on the development process for a typical virtual simulation, highlights some of the...

In this video presentation, Dr. Kapil Chalil Madathil introduces the Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES) and discusses their virtual reality modules that support advanced technical education in 2-year colleges. Dr. Chalil Madathil covers topics...

Description: This collection of learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are activities on using computer-aided design and drafting software (CADD) to create guitar fretboards. The collection includes a series of three learning activities on designing and creating fretboards...