eQUEST team strikes again for the 2016 Lowdown Showdown!

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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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