This volume, the first in a series of publications that will provide entry-level competencies in the area of building maintenance, is designed as an introduction. The seven instructional units cover these areas in the shop program: (1) introduction to building maintenance, (2) leadership development, (3) personal development, (4) job application and interview, (5) general safety, (6) shop math, and (7) measurement. Each unit contains the basic components of a unit of instruction: performance objectives (both unit and specific), suggested teaching activities to help the students complete the specific objectives and evaluation procedures, information sheets that provide content essential for meeting the cognitive requirements of the unit, transparency masters, job sheets, assignment sheets that give direction to study and that furnish activities providing application of the knowledge contained in the information sheet, a unit test, and answers to the unit test. (YLB)