This video from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center features a presentation by Harpartap Parmar, Director of Product Management at Contemporary Controls. This presentation was given at the 2025 BEST Annual Institute: Ensuring Sustainability: Energy Efficient Buildings & Technician Education.

Contemporary Controls is a firm that "designs and manufactures system building blocks" for building automation processes. This presentation outlines the firm’s open educational resources, which include an open source programming language and free software tools. Parmar details the free programming tools in the BAScontrol Toolset, the BASemulator tool, and pre-built applications. The speaker shares an example of a classroom setup using BAScontrollers, and provides examples of implementations at two community colleges. 

This video runs 00:25:14 minutes in length. Other videos in this series are available to view separately.

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