Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator @ Stanford

Did you know that heat pumps move heat instead of generate heat? Did you know that they can provide both heating and cooling? Have you wondered what heat pumps are but have heard varying opinions? Download the brand new deck "Myth Busting: Heat Pump Edition" from our website and learn for yourself! The BDLA is a free resource for building decarbonization education. https://lnkd.in/gysYaBuM

Our next BDLA monthly webinar will be September 13th at 11am PST with Stanford University's Mark Jacobson on "Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything." The solution is to electrify buildings, transportation, and industry and provide the electricity with 100% clean, renewable wind, water, and solar (WWS) sources and storage. This talk also discusses technologies already available to electrify buildings fully and the electricity and heat generation technologies. It then evaluates methods of keeping the electric grid stable at low cost in each of 29 world regions encompassing 149 countries examined. https://lnkd.in/ga_vffJZ

The Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator @ Stanford in collaboration with HBCU Green Fund is doing a Building Decarbonization Teaching Workshop for HBCU Professors at Morehouse College July 30-31! The agenda includes Energy Equity, Renewable Energy, Building Electrification, Teaching Strategies, and a net zero building tour. There is funding available for travel. Please sign up on our website or email stanfordbdla@stanford.edu with questions about funding. https://lnkd.in/ggJM23SZ

Our collaborators, Society of Building Science Educators' Annual Retreat is coming up July 9-12! We will be in attendance. "Registration is open until June 21 for the 2024 Society of Building Science Educators 2024 Retreat at Biosphere 2: a building containing an ocean, mangrove wetlands, tropical rainforest, Savannah grassland, a fog desert — and, soon — some really good conversation!   Proposed topics include: -Shaping the influence of artificial intelligence on building science teaching, architecture, and engineering -Contributing building science expertise to workforce development efforts -Enhancing adoption building science education accreditations such as BEENow and ZEDD -Integrating building science education with the architecture studio -Interfacing with accreditation requirements such as NAAB -Un-grading -Advancing experiential learning of building science and climate-responsive design -Introducing performance simulation in the undergraduate curriculum" Check out their website for more information and to sign up: https://lnkd.in/gpNA-JHg

We are really looking forward to June's BDLA webinar with Stephone Coward II, Economic Justice Director at Hip Hop Caucus tomorrow, June 7, 11am PT! Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ekJFyxZr

Building decarbonization is part of a larger goal in sustainability. Financing decarbonized buildings is a big part of making them a reality and feeds into the economic systems supporting them. Learn about alternative methods of financing building decarbonization projects free from fossil fuels and mass incarceration and move toward local economies and energy democracy from Stephone Coward II, Economic Justice Director at Hip Hop Caucus. June 7, 11am PT, register below! https://lnkd.in/gHepfcDY

How can a decarbonization project funded by money from the fossil fuel industry truly be decarbonization? Economic justice is just as integral in sustainability as environmental justice. Join us on June 7th at 11am PT for a webinar exploring this topic with Hip Hop Caucus' Economic Justice Director, Stephone Coward II, as he explores energy democracy, Just Transitions, Community Land Trusts, and making sure capital entrusted for efficient buildings flows away from the fossil fuel industry and mass incarceration.

We are excited to report that our BDLA collaborators at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), in partnership with South Carolina State University, have been awarded the HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize Partnerships Track by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)! This grant is to foster advancements in clean energy education at these institutions and enhancing curriculum through faculty development. Last year, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management at FAMU, Mohamed Khalafalla, joined the BDLA with other HBCU professors for one of our Building Decarbonization Teacher Trainings at Stanford University and has now extended his building decarbonization influence to receiving this amazing funding for his students, colleagues, and university! Thank you to the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at Stanford University and CIFE - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering for their continued support in making opportunities like this possible. https://lnkd.in/g3MCpsv8

Learn more about decarbonization and urban sustainability education and careers at this event in San Diego tomorrow!

New Deck Drop! "All Electric Domestic Hot Water Heating for Engineers" is now available for free on our website to download with a BDLA account. If you need to teach (or learn) about domestic hot water heating, this has all of the information available and you may customize it to your educational presentation! In residential buildings and restaurants, water heating is generally the largest single energy use, and gas water heaters are currently the norm in most areas. Understanding how to electrify domestic hot water systems is critical in decarbonizing our buildings, and there is new technology available to make this easier than ever. This deck provides detailed calculations suitable for engineering students, but a large portion of the content is applicable to anyone interested in decarbonization. Access it here: https://lnkd.in/guWPqsJH (bdla.stanford.edu is a free resource for building decarbonization education)