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<div align="center"><img src="cid:.0" width=166 height=166 alt="15c18e7.jpg"><font size=7 color="#FF0000">IBPSA<br>
</font><font color="#000080">International Building Performance
Simulation Association<br>
USA Affiliate<br><br>
IBPSA-USA invites you to join us in Kansas City for our summer 2003
meeting!<br><br>
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<b>Meeting
Highlights:</b><x-tab> </x-tab></font><font color="#FF0000"><b>Planning
for the First IBPSA-USA National Conference<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Social
Hour and Dinner<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Business
Meeting with Call for IBPSA-USA Officer Nominations<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Guest
Speaker: Mingsheng Liu, University of Nebraska<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font color="#000080">IBPSA-USA MEETING
ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">Dinner RSVP requested</b></font> (see
below)<br>
<b>4 PM, Saturday, June 28, 2003<br>
Kansas City, Missouri<br><br>
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Location:
<font color="#000080">Lydia's Kansas City Restaurant<br>
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101 West 22nd Street<br>
Kansas City, MO<br><br>
<b>4:00 PM - 5:30 PM <font color="#000080">Planning for the First
IBPSA-USA National Conference<br>
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IBPSA-USA is planning its first national conference, tentatively<br>
scheduled to be held in August 2004 in Boulder, Colorado. We
intend<br>
to make progress in the following areas: technical program,
finances,<br>
local arrangements, and publicity. Your input and assistance
is<br>
vitally important to the success of our first national
conference.<br><br>
<b>5:30 PM - 6:30 PM <font color="#000080">Social hour with cash
bar<br><br>
</font>6:30
PM
<font color="#000080">Dinner<br>
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$25/person for IBPSA members (membership applications and <br>
renewals will be accepted on-site)<br>
$35/person for non-members<br>
$15/person for students with a valid university ID<br><br>
<b>7:45 PM </b>(approx)<b> <font color="#000080">Business
Meeting
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During the business meeting, we would like to issue a call for<br>
nominations for various officers for IBPSA-USA. The term of
the<br>
current office holders will expire at the end of this calendar<br>
year. We would like to receive nominations and have a full
slate<br>
of candidates in order to proceed with an election in December
2003.<br>
The term of new officers will be from January 1, 2004 through<br>
December 31, 2005.<br><br>
<b>8:00 PM </b>(approx)<b> <font color="#000080">After-dinner
talk<br>
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Mingsheng Liu, Ph.D., P.E.<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Department of Architectural Engineering<br>
University of Nebraska<br>
Title: "Computer Simulation for Improving Existing Building
Performance"<br>
Abstract: Computer simulation has proved to be effective in
optimizing<br>
both new building design and retrofit design. In the last<br>
decade, the Prof. Liu has been using computer simulation in real<br>
buildings and has shown that it is an equally effective tool for<br>
improving existing building performance. His presentation will<br>
discuss procedures and techniques that use computer simulation<br>
for fault detection, optimal control schedule development,<br>
potential benefit projection, and performance verification in<br>
existing buildings. Case studies will also be presented.<br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b><u>Reservations</u>:</font>
<font color="#FF0000">Reservations should be made with
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>Rick Strand
<rkstrand@uiuc.edu></u></font><font color="#FF0000"><b> via email
by June 23, 2003, 5PM (EDT).</font> </b>Confirmation of
reservations will be sent via email (if you do not receive a confirmation
within two business days, please resend your reservation
request).<br><br>
For the latest information on the IBPSA-USA meeting in Kansas City,
please check out:
<a href="http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa" eudora="autourl">http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa</a><br><br>
We look forward to seeing you there!<br><br>
Les
Norford<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Rick
Strand<br>
President,
IBPSA-USA<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Secretary,
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