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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 webinar, from the HSI ATE HUB, provides "guidance, strategies, and interventions for faculty and administrators in CTE and STEM to foster an equitable learning environment" and employ a culturally responsive instruction model. In the video, the Educators' Equity in STEM (EESTEM) II project and...

This website provides information designed to help building industry professionals and policy makers to improve environmental performance and reduce the adverse impacts of buildings. It print and electronic resources to help industry professionals to take an integrated design approach that will...

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 is an unnumbered episode of the CCPI-Cast webinar series from Prince George's Community College. The webinar features a panel discussion between three administrators of rural community colleges. Each panelist talks about their community college, applying for National Science Foundation (NSF)...

In this video from InnovATEBIO, Jackie Madden from Harford Community College (HCC) talks about the Building Interest and Opportunities Through Engagement and Collaborative Pathways (BIOTECH Pathways) program, which is aimed at recruiting high school students into biotechnology programs at HCC to...

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...