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*Save up to $65 with Early Bird Registration by Aug. 15*
Attend the *2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild
*and
learn how to make better decisions during the simulation and modeling
process of an entire building life cycle.
*Technical Program Announced*
The program is bigger than ever and includes 185 presentations covering a
mix of research, best practices and case studies.
*View the detailed program
The topics will be compelling for anyone interested in analysis of high
performance buildings and communities. The following is a sample of the
topics in the program.
- Early design modeling
- Model calibration
- Daylight and lighting modeling
- Thermal comfort modeling
- CFD and airflow modeling
- Electrical grid modeling
- Energy storage simulation
- Urban scale modeling
- Building information models (BIM)
- Machine learning
- Scripting
- Modeling controls
- Heat pumps
- Earth tubes
- Stasio
- Practice of modeling
- Weather data
- Net zero buildings
- Modeling for code compliance
Register Now
*Early Bird Prices Expire Aug. 15*
*IBPSA-USA or ASHRAE Member* $575 ($640 after 8/15) | *Non Member* $650 ($710
after 8/15)
Not a member? Join IBPSA-USA now for $45 and save $75 on conference
registration
Speaker $400 | Student $375
Virtual Conference Member $129 | Virtual Conference Non Member $179
Hotel reservations can be made at the Conference Hotel. The conference
hotel is the Hilton Chicago located at 720 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL.
ASHRAE has a block of rooms available at the negotiated group rate of $199+
tax per night. *Prior to August 31, make a group reservation
to
receive the discounted rate. *
Your registration includes the following:
- Evening Reception on Wednesday, September 26
- Light breakfast, lunch and breaks on Wednesday, September 26
- Light breakfast, lunch, breaks and a reception on Thursday, September
27
- Light breakfast and break on Friday, September 28
Access the Virtual Conference for up to 18 months after the conference.
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*Conference Program*
The 2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild will feature
more than 60 presentations and approximately 120 papers by leading industry
practitioners and academic researchers. Some of the selected presentations
include application of virtual reality for daylighting design, designing
for thermal nirvana, metrics and methods for carbon-neutral and net-zero
building design, automated calibration techniques and modeling standards
and strategies with the recently released ASHRAE Standard 209 on simulation
aided design.
*Program Book
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*LowDown Showdown
The conference will also feature the fourth annual *ASHRAE LowDown Showdown
The focus of the year's competition is for teams to go beyond just
achieving an energy efficient building, and use their ingenuity to include
elements of conference themes into their design and analysis. The
competition has 13 teams participating, a new conference record!
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*Project StaSIO Competition
Open Now*
Project StaSIO
Inputs and Outputs), has been developed by IBPSA-USA?s Research Committee.
It is an online repository of crowd-sourced simulation graphics and case
studies organized around the ASHRAE Standard 209 framework.
IBPSA-USA ihas organized this competition
in
conjunction with the ASHRAE/IBPSA 2018 Building Performance Analysis
Conference and SimBuild to catalyze crowd-sourced submissions to Project
StaSIO. Through the competition, the StaSIO teams hopes to have a website
which serves as a resource for project teams all over the world looking for
ways to better communicate simulation results and improve the decision
making process at the early stage of design.
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*Pre-Conference Workshops
On Monday, September 24 and Tuesday, September 25, software companies and
educators are conducting full-day or half-day workshops at the Chicago
Hilton hotel prior to the start of the conference. You can register for
these pre-conference workshops through the online registration portal.
Separate registration is required. These workshops and courses are
*not*included
with the conference and will *not* be included in the virtual conference.
For full course descriptions, *click here
and
click the "pre-conference course" tab.
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*Certification*
*Apply by Sept. 7* to sit for an ASHRAE Certification exam in *Building
Energy Modeling (BEMP)
on *Friday, September 28 at 12:30 p.m.* to take place at the headquarters
hotel, the Hilton Chicago.
Recognized by over 35 national, state and local government bodies and with
over 2,750 certifications earned, ASHRAE's six certifications - including
the BEMP - increasingly have become the must-have credential for
built-environment professionals.
*Note:* Conference attendees may pay the Certification application fee when
registering for the Conference. A separate Certification application will
be requested.
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*Sponsors*
*Thank you to our Sponsors!*
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