ATLANTA – On August 10-12, 2016, ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA will jointly host a conference at the Salt Lake Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“The practical application of modeling buildings includes a broad range of professional services requiring an equally broad range of expertise, knowledge, skills and tools. This call for presentations addresses these practitioner needs,” Dennis Knight, conference chair, said.
With a goal to address the lifecycle of buildings, the overall theme for the conference is “Using Simulation to Improve Building Performance from Planning and Design to Construction, Operations and Retrofit."
The conference will cover two-and-a half days and will be preceded by two days of training seminars and short courses.
“The conference seeks to keep pace with advances in computing, data and automation as well as to help modelers make better decisions through the application of simulation and modeling over the entire building life cycle,” Knight said.
Held in conjunction with the SimBuild Conference is the 2016 ASHRAE LowDown Showdown which is currently underway. Participants will model a net zero or below building. The baseline building for the challenge is a 50,000 square foot, three story outpatient health care facility.
Team names include
• The DeeBees
• The EUI Evangelists (TEE)
• The BEM Bang Theory
• Energy Derailment
• Insane Energy Savers
• Outpatient Zero
• Quest for Zero
• Newbie Energizers – Patrick McLaughlin
For more information about the modeling challenge requirements please visit https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-conferences/2016-ashrae-lowdown-showdown
Invited speakers and keynote speakers will be announced soon.
For future updates, continue to visit www.ashrae.org/simbuild2016.
Contact Info
Conference Chair: Dennis Knight
Email: dknight@wholebuildingsystems.com
Scientific Committee Chair: Carrie Brown
Email: carrie@resourcerefocus.com
Scientific Committee Vice Chair: Rahul Athalye
Email: rahul.athalye@pnnl.gov
Steering Committee Members:
Dennis Knight
Chip Barnaby
Carrie Brown
Krishnan Gowri
Dru Crawley
Chris Balbach
Joe Huang
Staff Support
For information on the technical program, special events, special sessions and general conference inquiries
Tiffany D. Cox
Assistant Manager of Conference Programs
Email: tcox@ashrae.org
Technical Support
For technical problems or for help in submitting an abstract online, email Tech Support
Publication Schedule
This is the overall publication schedule for the ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2016: Building Performance Modeling Conference, Salt Lake City.
Conference Papers Schedule
April 22, 2016 | Edited Manuscripts from Authors with Required Revisions Due |
May 27, 2016 | Notification of Re-Review Final Decisions |
June 10, 2016 | Final Manuscripts Due from Authors |
Presentations Schedule
February 3, 2016 | Abstracts Due |
Authors' Resources
Templates
- Download the conference paper template/guide in MS Word
- Download the conference paper template/guide as a LaTeX zip
Authors who have received an acceptance of their conference paper abstracts will be invited to submit a conference paper for review. The conference papers will be a maximum of 8 pages in length and will be uploaded in PDF format.
The conference papers will undergo a double-blind review and will need to receive two “accept” reviews in order to be accepted for the conference. Authors will be asked to omit their names and affiliations from the paper at this beginning stage.
At the time when the conference paper is uploaded, the author will also:
- Sign an “Agreement to Publish” form. The form will assign copyright of the paper to ASHRAE. Open access to the papers will be available online at the start of the conference.
- Provide 2 Learning Objectives for the paper.
- Provide 4 Questions with Answers for the paper.
- Sign a “Permission to Record” form that will allow the presentation to be recorded.
- Present the accepted paper at the conference.