Colleagues,
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2012
Conference being held August 1-3, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin is today
Friday, December 9, 2011. Abstracts should be submitted online by visiting:

https://gaia.lbl.gov/ocs/index.php/simbuild/2012/login

This is the final announcement regarding abstracts, I promise.
Kind regards,
David Bradley

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SimBuild 2012

5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA
August 1 - 3, 2012 -- Madison, WI

Call for Abstracts

IBPSA-USA is soliciting abstracts for its fifth biennial conference on
building performance simulation, SimBuild 2012. Please note that
December 1st, 2011 is the deadline for all abstracts.

The conference organizers are limiting the number of peer-reviewed oral
presentations in order to maintain a high level of quality in the
papers. Submissions will therefore be rigorously peer-reviewed. Paper
submissions should deal with computer-based building performance
simulation (BPS) with the scope ranging from individual building
components to whole buildings and neighborhoods. Basic phenomena of
interest include the modeling of heat and mass transfer, air movement,
natural and electric light as well as controls and occupant behavior.
Other suitable topics include new developments in tools for modeling and
simulation, automated optimization during design and operations,
stochastic modeling and data visualization, the generation of climate
datasets and successful applications of BPS in design practice (case
studies), incentive programs, building operations and education.

In addition to the technical papers, a limited number of
non-peer-reviewed oral presentations will be sought in order to enable
practitioners and researchers to address simulation-related issues such
as: the future of BEM software; modeling controls in BEM software; use
of simulation in real-time to support building operation; dealing with
uncertainty in building performance simulation; validation, calibration
and verification of simulation using real time data; model predictive
control in buildings; use of BEM in a building system fault finding
capacity; appropriate modeling for the different phases of a building
design; and case studies of the application of modeling in building design.

The meeting is open to all, world-wide. Madison is located in the middle
of the US near to Chicago and Minneapolis. The conference will be held
at The Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison.

Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts are due by December 1st, 2011 and should be a maximum of 200
words. Abstracts should be submitted through the SimBuild 2012 website.
Please check back to the conference website for submission details at
www.ibpsa.us/simbuild2012

Key Dates:

October 4th, 2011 Call for abstracts
December 1st, 2011 Abstracts due
December 9th, 2011 Extended abstract submittal date
December 31st, 2011 Abstract acceptance
February 28th, 2011 Papers due
Mar 31st, 2011 Paper reviews provided to authors
Apr 30th, 2011 Revised papers due
May 31st, 2011 Final decisions on all papers
Aug 1 - Aug 3 SimBuild 2012 conference

Organizing Committee:

Conference Chair:
Timothy McDowell, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC
Scientific Committee:
D. Michael Utzinger, Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Zheng O'Neill, United Technologies Research Center
Christoph Reinhardt, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Michael Wetter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Bradley, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC

David BRADLEY