[Bldg-sim] Building Data Exchange Survey

[Tim McDowell]

BUILDING DATA EXCHANGE SURVEY
Get Your Responses in Now!
Closes August 31st

The building simulation industry is in the process of making a steady 
shift towards connected databases and web technologies for the design, 
analysis, and operation of built environments. Consequently, the 
end-user must work with a multitude of unrelated data dictionaries, 
schemas, and file formats to represent building information for 
simulation.

The IBPSA-USA Building Data Exchange (BDE) Committee has been set up to 
convene the many stakeholders to identify current barriers to data 
exchange, and if necessary, facilitating the development of standard 
data models will help overcome some of the key barriers to greater 
adoption of building performance modeling outlined in USDOE BTO’s 
Emerging Technologies Draft Research and Development document, namely – 
improving value proposition, increasing accuracy, making time available 
to develop core modeling capabilities, and facilitating end-to-end 
workflow automation.

One of the committee's first activity is outreach to the building 
simulation community at large to assess the current state of data 
exchange in practice and promote information exchange about current 
trends in data exchange. This outreach will begin with a series of 
surveys and webinars.

Our initial survey as available at: https://forms.gle/tbni3B2CNKxC9sdy9

We will be collecting responses from the survey until August 31, 2020. 
At that time we will conglomerate the results and produce a report with 
a summary of the findings. The report will be a publicly available 
document from IBPSA-USA.

If you have any questions on the survey or about the IBPSA-USA Building 
Data Exchange (BDE) Committee pleas email bde at ibpsa.us

-- 
Timothy P. McDowell
Executive Vice President
Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC
3 N Pinckney St, Suite 202
Madison, WI 53703
office: 608-274-2577
cell: 608-225-5250