I want to share some happy news with our community!
This year, a team of eQUEST/doe2-centric volunteers joined forces to
participate in the Lowdown Showdown building energy simulation
competition. After months of coordination and outstanding efforts from
everyone involved, we presented our efforts towards the close of the
SIMbuild 2016 conference in a condensed 15 minute presentation. The
audience/judges together voted and determined that, once again, the team
representing our platform deserved an award! This year we took home the
"Best Teamwork" award.
All the participating teams presented very interesting and divergent
takes on tackling the same challenge: Pushing an outpatient healthcare
facility in Omaha, Nebraska down to a source EUI of Zero.
We had 17 active participants (many are recognizable active participants
here on the lists), making us one of the larger teams this year:
NAME (alphabetical)
AFFILIATION
Arunabha Sau
Independent Contractor
David Griffin II
Arch|Nexus
Drew Morrison
Seventhwave
Greg Hildner
Schneider-Electric
Greg Swiss
Cyclone Energy Group
Iyabo lawal
Texas A&M
Jeremy Lerond
Madison Engineering PS
Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
Kevin Madison
Madison Engineering PS
Manalee Jayant Nabar
Bright Power, Inc.
Matt Garlick
TBC, Inc.
Mrigesh Roy
Beyond Efficiency Inc.
Nick Caton
Schneider-Electric
Russell Knudson
Strang Inc.
Samuel Mason
Encompass Energy LLC
Sasikant Suddapalli
University of Florida
Surabhi Joshi
NORESCO
Here is a recent article published by IBPSA-USA covering the results:
http://www.ibpsa.us/news/review-lowdown-showdown-simbuild-2016
Here is another writeup on ASHRAE's conference website - here you can
find/download a copy of our team poster:
https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-confer
ences/2016-ashrae-lowdown-showdown-results/best-teamwork
Finally, here is a link to a page containing more of the details/context
for the Lowdown Showdown event, if anyone is curious to learn more:
https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-confer
ences/2016-ashrae-lowdown-showdown
Great work to everyone involved!
~Nick
Nick Caton, P.E.
Senior Energy Engineer
Energy and Sustainability Services
Schneider Electric
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