Hello members of the BLDG-SIM mailing list,

I am the track chair for *Track 7: Modeling Throughout the Building Life
Cycle* for the ASHRAE Winter 2018 Conference in Chicago.

I am in the process of reaching out to colleagues, organizations and
companies that I think may be interested in submitting material for this
track. Members of this mailing list are, obviously, a prime audience. I
will say that I have been contacting folks with a wide range of interests
in modeling. E.g., design to operation, IAQ to energy, residential to
commercial.

The current abstract for the track is:

*Modeling was originally concerned primarily with building and system
design specifications. The demands of energy efficient operation brought
about the need for modeling of part-load operation for a variety of
off-design conditions. The explosion of computational capacity and data
collection capability is rapidly expanding the scope, complexity and
practical applications of modeling both during design, but even more so for
fault detection, diagnostics and operational optimization. Thirty years
ago, people were dreaming of doing some of the things that Building
Information Modeling is now bringing to reality. Presentations and papers
are solicited related to all aspects of building modeling, with a
particular interest in successful applications that have extended modeling
into operational phases of the building life cycle.*

A couple of important dates include:

March 01, 2017 - Conference Paper Abstracts, Technical Papers and Paper
Session Requests Due
August 01, 2017 - Seminar, Forum, Workshop and Paper Proposals Due

Thank you, and feel free to contact me with any questions.

Joseph Firrantello, PhD, PE