Hi all,
Apologies for the short notice. If you are in San Francisco/Bay Area on March 17th, please join us in person for the tour of the FLEXLAB Facility at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab:
FLEXLAB and Simulation Group Tour at LBL

When: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 5:00pm
Location: LBL, Building Technologies and Urban Systems

1 Cyclotron Rd
Berkeley, CA 94720

PHONE 510-486-5124

SCHEDULE:
4:45 pm to 5pm, Arrival and Networking
5 pm to 6:30 pm, FLEX Lab Tour, followed by the Simulation Group visit
6:30 pm to 6:45 pm, Wrap Up/Questions
*REGISTRATION DETAILS-IMPORTANT NOTE TO POTENTIAL ATTENDEES:
Please know in advance that the LBL has high restrictions on potential visitors! Given the short amount of time for preparing this tour and being a high security government entity, no one from the visiting group is allowed to be citizens of, were born in, or are affiliated with (employed or sponsored by) Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Russia or Syria. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to certain individuals wanting to attend and hope things change in the future!

IBPSA-USA San Francisco Chapter Event details:
This month we are very excited to have rare tour with Cynthia Regnier and Philip Haves from LBL (Lawrence Berkeley Lab).
They will present and discuss details about their new FLEXLAB Facility (The World?s Most Advanced Building Efficiency Test Bed) and the Simulation Group latest developments.
More info about the FLEX LAB can be found here: https://flexlab.lbl.gov/
Speakers bios:
[Portrait of Cynthia Regnier]
Cynthia Regnier
Commercial Building Systems Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 90R2000
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 90-2024R
(510) 486-7011[skypec2c://r/204](510) 486-7011
CMRegnier at lbl.gov

Cindy Regnier, P.E., P.Eng., LEED AP is Group Leader for Commercial Building Systems at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the U.S., and Executive Manager for FLEXLAB, the U.S. Department of Energy?s newest building technologies testing facility ? the Facility for Low Energy Experiments in Buildings. FLEXLAB is a series of testbeds focused on low energy integrated systems, building technologies and controls research. She also manages the Commercial Buildings Partnerships Program overseeing technical assistance for deep, low energy projects, and manages a project to develop tools for small commercial deployed through a community scale approach, the 2030 Districts. She has 13+ years of engineering design experience on integrated HVAC design for innovative projects, including an AIA COTE Top 10, several LEED Platinum buildings, and a 200,000sf carbon neutral science museum. She has been at LBNL since 2009. Her Bachelor?s degree is in Mathematics and Engineering, with a specialty in Mechanical Engineering from Queen?s University in Canada.

[Philip Haves]
Philip Haves
Simulation Research Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 90R3147
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 90-3148C
(510) 486-6512[skypec2c://r/204](510) 486-6512
PHaves at lbl.gov

Philip Haves is the Leader of the Simulation Research Group. He has worked on different aspects of commercial buildings since 1986, with particular interests in simulation and in building operations. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE, the chair of its Technical Committee on Energy Calculations and a former Chair of its Technical Committee on Building Operation Dynamics. He is the immediate past president of IBPSA-USA, the US affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association. He has a BA in Physics from Oxford University and a PhD in Radio Astronomy from Manchester University.

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP Nikola Kravik at nkravik at willdan.com (no later than Friday, March 13th; 12pm PST).
I encourage everyone to take the FREE Shuttle that goes up to the lab. If you must drive and need a parking pass please email me so I can coordinate that with the site folks and get you the proper entrance/parking permit.
Thank you, Nikola

Nikola Kravik, BEMP, LEED AP
Energy Engineer
ASHRAE Golden Gate BOG
IBPSA USA San Francisco Committee

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