SimBuild 2012
5th National
Conference of IBPSA-USA
August 1 - 3, 2012 – Madison, WI
Call for
Abstracts
IBPSA-USA is
soliciting abstracts for its fifth biennial
conference on building performance simulation,
SimBuild 2012. Please note that December 1st, 2011
is the deadline for all abstracts.
The conference organizers
are limiting the number of peer-reviewed oral
presentations in order to maintain a high level of
quality in the papers. Submissions will therefore
be rigorously peer-reviewed. Paper submissions
should deal with computer-based building
performance simulation (BPS) with the scope
ranging from individual building components to
whole buildings and neighborhoods. Basic
phenomena of interest include the modeling of
heat and mass transfer, air movement, natural
and electric light as well as controls and
occupant behavior. Other suitable topics
include new developments in tools for modeling
and simulation, automated optimization during
design and operations, stochastic modeling and
data visualization, the generation of climate
datasets and successful applications of BPS in
design practice (case studies), incentive
programs, building operations and education.
In
addition to the technical papers, a limited number
of non-peer-reviewed oral presentations will be
sought in order to enable practitioners and
researchers to address simulation-related issues
such as: the future of BEM software; modeling
controls in BEM software; use of simulation in
real-time to support building operation; dealing
with uncertainty in building performance
simulation; validation, calibration and
verification of simulation using real time data;
model predictive control in buildings; use of BEM
in a building system fault finding capacity;
appropriate modeling for the different phases of a
building design; and case studies of the
application of modeling in building design.
The
meeting is open to all, world-wide. Madison is
located in the middle of the US near to Chicago
and Minneapolis. The conference will be held at
The Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison.
Submission
of Abstracts:
Abstracts are
due by December 1st, 2011 and should be a maximum
of 200 words. Abstracts should be submitted
through the SimBuild 2012 website. Please check
back to the conference website for submission
details at www.ibpsa.us/simbuild2012
Key Dates:
October 4th,
2011 Call for abstracts
December
1st, 2011 Abstracts due
December
31st, 2011 Abstract acceptance
February
28th, 2011 Papers due
Mar 31st,
2011 Paper reviews provided to authors
Apr 30th,
2011 Revised papers due
May 31st,
2011 Final decisions on all papers
Aug 1 - Aug
3 SimBuild 2012 conference
Organizing
Committee:
Conference
Chair:
Timothy McDowell, Thermal Energy System Specialists,
LLC
Scientific
Committee:
D. Michael
Utzinger, Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Zheng
O’Neill, United Technologies Research Center
Christoph
Reinhardt, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Michael
Wetter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David
Bradley, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC