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July 2021 Newsletter
IBPSA-USA News
*Project StaSIO is Launching a New Initiative ? Challenges!*
Each Challenge will focus on a specific building simulation topic, and
participants can contribute Graphics to the Project StaSIO website which
answers a simulation question related to the Challenge topic. See all the
details here:
Read More.
*Ask a Modeler: When Should I use Future Weather in Building Energy
Modeling, and What Climate Change Model Should I Use?*
This month Melissa Allen-Dumas, PhD, Research Scientist at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, replies: *"Dear Forecasting, It?s exciting to me to
know that there are forward-thinking building energy modelers out there
that care about designing buildings for future climate. Climate change has
everything to do with Title 24?s standards for 'energy conservation, green
design, construction and maintenance, fire and life safety and
accessibility'..."*
Read More.
*ASHRAE Standard 205P Public Review Open*
Public review comments are now being sought for: *BSR/ASHRAE Standard 205P:
Representation of Performance Data for HVAC&R and Other Facility
Equipment.* This
is the 3rd public review of the full proposed standard. *Comments must be
received by August 2, 2021.*
Read More.
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Upcoming Events
*July 29: End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Residential
Stock Model Calibration and Validation - IBPSA-USA Research Committee*
End-use load profiles are critically important to understanding the
time-sensitive value of energy efficiency, demand response, and other
distributed energy resources. The project team is using an innovative
approach that benefits from the reach, cost-effectiveness, and granularity
of data-driven and physics-based building stock modeling. This presentation
will provide an overview of the project, give details on the residential
timeseries end-use calibration and validation efforts, and present a
summary of the final products for the project.
Learn More.
*August 18: QAQC for Energy Modeling - IBPSA-USA Education Committee*
Despite their significance, quality control/assurance for energy models is
not standardized or common practice in the building performance simulation
world. This panel discussion brings together experts from the practitioner,
consumer, regulatory and academic side. The panelists will provide 5-7
minute presentations on their view of the QA/QC process and discuss further
need for improvement. There will also be time for audience questions.
Learn More.
*August 26: A Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Framework for Building
Applications - IBPSA-USA Research Committee*
This webinar presents a novel semantic representation and reasoning
framework for use in enhancing emerging building applications such as fault
detection and diagnostics (FDD), and commissioning (Cx). This framework
will enable the semantic integration of heterogeneous data from domains
such as occupancy, lighting, equipment, and utility for planning,
operation, and management purposes.
Learn More.
*Sept. 30: IBPSA Project 1 - New Generation Computing Tools for Building
and District Energy Systems*
This Research Committee of IBPSA-USA presentation gives an overview of
IBPSA Project 1. It explains work done on the Modelica IBPSA Library and
other Modelica libraries that implement the library as their core
repository of models. Next, case studies and related projects for building
and district energy system design are presented that illustrate the
capabilities enabled through this technology.
Learn More.
Committees and Working Groups
We encourage all members to participate in our BEM Community. Our wide
array of Committees offer members the opportunity to participate in
important work, meeting new friends and feel great about moving our
industry forward. All committee meetings are open and we encourage everyone
to drop in anytime.
*See our meeting calendar for all upcoming meeting dates and times.*
- Research
- Education
- Communications
- Finance and Development
- Building Data Exchange
- Chapters
IBPSA-USA Education on Demand
New Videos Added
Python Programming for Energy Modelers - IBPSA-USA Education Committee
Design for COVID-19 and Beyond: New Use Cases for Computational Fluid
Dynamics and Multi-Agent Simulation - IBPSA-USA Research Committee
Daylight Happy Hour: The Solstice Sessions - IBPSA-USA Architectural
Simulations Simulations Subcommittee
IBPSA-USA Job Board
Below are just a few of the jobs available now. Browse current open
listings on our job board, and sign-up to post your own:
*https://jobs.ibpsa.us/*
Building Energy Modeler at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Energy Analyst I at Brightworks Sustainability
Senior Building Energy Modeler at Redcar Analytics
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