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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, Iain Walker explores home decarbonization and the importance of avoiding electric panel and service upgrade costs. Walker explores the importance of...

In this interactive object, students explore the basic elements and common terms associated with dimensions and leaders in engineering drawings. A quiz completes the activity.  

Learners examine the drawing symbols used for counterbore, countersink, spotface, radius, diameter, and depth. In the quiz that completes the activity, they associate these symbols with machining applications.

In this highly interactive object, learners associate basic line types and terms with engineering drawing geometry. A quiz completes the activity.

These resources, from the STEM Guitar project, include a PowerPoint presentation and an activity on the strength of guitar materials. The purpose of the presentation is to learn about "... materials testing and relate that information to how luthiers create bended sides for guitars." The...

This video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. In the video, Colette Flood and Nekeiah Harrell of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) lead a presentation about internship opportunities at the LBNL ...

This page from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center includes a number of downloadable research reports. The papers cover topics such as facilities management and operations best practices, reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, current trends in...

This page from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center provides links to videos which pertain to building technician education. The videos fall under the categories of Accreditation, Building automation and direct digital controls, Building commissioning and...

This page from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center provides information about the 2013 Building Automation Systems workshop. Additionally, an archive of downloadable materials from the 2009 California Community Colleges Energy Efficiency and HVAC Symposium is...

This 2-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on purchasing lumber for guitars. Activity learning objectives include: calculate total board feet of a guitar and cost for the species used and accurately measure lumber using inches. This resource includes the following sections:...