IBPSA-USA’s SimBuild 2012 Conference The Future of Simulation for Buildings August 1-3, 2012 The Madison Concourse Hotel Madison, Wisconsin Conference Chair: Timothy McDowell, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC Scientific Chair: D. Michael Utzinger, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The fifth biennial conference to improve the design and operation of buildings through advances in the modeling and simulation of building performance Technical refereed paper presentations – double-blind reviewed papers on all topics in the area of building performance simulation (abstracts will be due late Fall 2011)Invited speaker seminars – sessions with invited speakers on topics such as:The future of BEM softwareModeling controls in BEM softwareUse of simulation in real-time to support building operationDealing with uncertainty in building performance simula
tionValidation, calibration and verification of simulation using real time dataModel predictive control in buildingsUse of BEM in a building system fault finding capacityAppropriate modeling for the different phases of a building designPoster sessions – student posters will be solicited in relevant topicsSoftware demonstrations – energy, BIM, comfort, cfd and othersSimulation and Educational workshops – a number of pre-conference workshops will be offered in conjunction with the conferenceTours of high performance buildings The conference is hosted by the USA Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Engineering Professional Development. To get involved contact: Tim McDowell: mcdowell at tess-inc.com