President’s Message: Grateful for Simulation People
Those of you who attended the SimBuild conference last August in Salt Lake City might have heard me say, “I’ve never met a modeler I didn’t like.” Once you sort through that double negative – sorry about that - you’ll see that I like simulation people. The people who choose this work - besides being a little bit on the geeky side - have big hearts...
Review: IBPSA-USA Winter Meeting 2017 in Las Vegas
The theme of uncertainty seemed appropriate for our Las Vegas gathering, and Professor Godfried Augenbroe of Georgia Tech spoke to the dinner crowd about the role of uncertainty in building performance analysis. He demonstrated using a simplified spreadsheet simulation tool how to explore the impact of different types of uncertainty on outputs.
Online Training Videos: IBPSA-USA Education Committee
Visitingibpsa-usa.org, IBPSA-USA’s online publication platform, members will find a series of published video clips in addition to past conference papers. These video contents are contributed by the IBPSA-USA Education Committee, IBPSA University, and IBPSA-USA Chicago and NYC Chapters in collaboration with the IBPSA-USA Editorial Committee.
Catch-up with Maryland Chapter activities over the last year. Since holding their kick-off meeting in October 2015, the Chapter has been busy holding regular events with informative presentations for our community.
NYC Chapter Webinar: Intro to PHIUS+ 2015 Standard and WUFI Passive
View a recording of this webinar, held on 2/16/17. This is the first of a 3-part series about passive house standards. We will start by exploring the development of the climate-specific PHIUS+ 2015 standard developed by the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS).
Chicago Chapter Webinar: Ground Loop Heat Pump System Design and Modeling Tools
View a recording of this webinar, held on 2/22/17. Designing and simulating a ground loop heat pump system can often be part of a high performance building design. This webinar will offer presentations on two pieces of software, GLD (Ground Loop Design) and HyGCHP (Hybrid Ground-Coupled Heat Pumps), that can help evaluate designs.
Are You Going to Building Simulation 2017 in San Francisco?
Building Simulation 2017 will bring together practitioners and researchers from around the world to share information about the state of the art in simulation tools and applications, and to discuss new developments. Are you going? Click here. Take our survey to let us know, and get your name listed.
February 27: SFBA/LA Chapter Round Table - Title 24, CBECC and What We're Doing About It
This meeting is being hosted by the IBPSA-USA Los Angeles Chapter. The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter will be remotely partnering. Experiencing difficulties with the Title 24 Part 6 performance compliance approach? What are you doing about it? This is an opportunity to share what you are doing to overcome obstacles, and to learn what others are doing.
August 7-9: Building Simulation 2017 in San Francisco
Building Simulation 2017 will bring together practitioners and researchers from around the world to share information about the state of the art in simulation tools and applications, and to discuss new developments. The conference will feature updates on new research, case studies, and ongoing efforts to enable compliance and building rating software to support radiant and other energy efficient systems.
