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Only 3 weeks left until the virtual Performance Huddle 2020 !!
Organized by the IBPSA Houston Chapter and already in its fourth year, the
Performance Huddle 2020 is the premier symposium on building performance
and sustainability in the Gulf Coast. It will take place on November 12th
and 13th.
This year the program will be completely online with 3 sessions, 8
speakers, 3 panels, 2 workshops and multiple networking opportunities. It
will have two main tracks over the two days of the symposium: Future Design
with Climate Data, with presentations from Jud Partin, Joe Huang and
Evyatar Erell and Healthy Indoor Environments and a Pandemic, with
presentations from Stephanie H, William Bahnfleth, Kapil Upadhyaya, Liliana
Beltran and Rania Labib.
Additionally, there will be two software workshops:
1- ClimateStudio conducted by Alstan Jakubiec
2- COMFEN, conducted by Joseph Fong, AIA.
For more info, please visit
https://ibpsausahouston.com/performance-huddle-2020/
To register, please go to
https://hopin.to/events/2020-performance-huddle-f8c15e14-2f26-4f20-8986-c6935356b29d
Here is the conference schedule:
11/12/2020
Future Design with Climate Data
Start
Finish
Speaker
Theme
10:30
10:40
Opening remarks / opening of day
10:40
11:25
Jud Partin, UT Austin
Past, Present, Future ? How It Will Affect Building Design and Resiliency
11:25
11:30
Q/A
11:30
11:35
BREAK
11:35
12:20
Joe Huang, WhiteBox Technologies
The implications of Climate Change on the design and operations of
buildings in Houston
12:20
12:25
Q/A
12:25
12:55
Networking
12:55
13:10
Evyatar Erell, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Effect of Increasing Vegetation Cover on Energy Demand for Heating and
Cooling Buildings in a Dense Mediterranean City
13:10
13:15
Q/A
13:15
13:45
Panel (all speakers)
13:45
13:50
Closing of day
13:50
14:10
BREAK
14:10
16:10
Alstan Jakubiec, University of Toronto, Solemma
Workshop: ClimateStudio
11/13/2020
Healthy Indoor Environments and a Pandemic
8:45
9:55
Joe Fong
Workshop: COMFEN
9:55
10:00
BREAK
10:00
10:10
Opening of day
10:10
10:55
Stephanie Taylor, ASHRAE
The Healing Power of Indoor Air
10:55
11:00
Q/A
11:00
11:05
BREAK
11:05
11:50
William Bahnfleth, PennState
Engineering Controls for Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19 and Other
Infectious Diseases
11:50
11:55
Q/A
11:55
12:10
Kapil Upadhyaya, Kirksey
IAQ Simulation Methods
12:10
12:15
Q/A
12:15
12:45
Panel (all speakers)
12:45
13:15
Networking
13:15
14:00
Liliana Beltran, Texas AM
Bringing daylight beyond windows with passive core sunlighting
14:00
14:05
Q/A
14:05
14:20
Rania Labib, Prairie View AM
Utilizing Machine Learning and Cloud Computing to Automate and Speed up
Daylighting Simulations.
14:20
14:25
Q/A
14:25
14:55
Panel (all speakers)
14:55
15:05
Closing of day / Closing remarks
Best Regards,
*Rania Labib, PhD, LEED AP*
Assistant Professor at Prairie View A&M University
*www.RaniaLabib.com
*E:* rlabib at tamu.edu
*T:*
*(832) 922-3045*
