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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>**Solicitation for <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>IBPSA News</span></b> items will be coming soon, so
get ready!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But first, let me tell
you about IBPSA’s new public outreach structure! **<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Following the BS2007 conference in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:City>, President Jan
Hensen, along with the IBPSA Board’s concurrence, decided to do some
restructuring of IBPSA’s publicity outreach activities. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>One of the new initiatives is IBPSA’s
official journal, Journal of Building Performance Simulation (<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>JBPS</span></b>), edited by Jan Hensen and Ian Beausoleil-Morrison.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>[See <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'><a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19401493.asp">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19401493.asp</a></span></b>.]
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>First published in March 2008, the
Journal has already become a widely respected, scholarly, journal of
outstanding peer-reviewed building performance simulation works across the
globe. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We are also building an
alliance with <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>AIVC </span></b>(the Air
Infiltration and Ventilation Centre – <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.aivc.org/">http://www.aivc.org</a></span></b>, which is the
official information Centre of the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>IEA</span></b>
(International Energy Agency) for ventilation and air infiltration in buildings.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>They publish a wealth of
information in a quarterly newsletter, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>AIR</span></b>
(Air Information Review), which will occasionally carry IBPSA announcements of
various conferences and other events. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You will find their newsletters extremely
informative, and you can find a full collection of the news archives, starting from
1989 and up through the present at: <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.aivc.org/frameset/frameset.html?../Air/air.html~mainFrame">http://www.aivc.org/frameset/frameset.html?../Air/air.html~mainFrame</a></span></b>.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>IBPSA’s new structure now has a <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Public Relations committee</span></b>, which I am pleased to chair. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Members of this committee include Veronica
Soebarto (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:place></st1:City>)
as the Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Etienne Wurtz (IBPSA-France), and <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Marion Bartholomew</st1:PersonName> (U.K.) as Newsletter Production Editor.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Marion</st1:place></st1:City> has served this function remarkably
well over the past 12 or more years, and we are pleased to continue to have her
services.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>So, get ready to submit your simulation news items. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Watch for a request from Veronica
Soebarto – it should be coming soon.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Take a look at <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.ibpsa.org/m_newsletter.asp">http://www.ibpsa.org/m_newsletter.asp</a></span></b>
to see the past Newsletters from 1996 to the present.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Larry D., chair, IBPSA Public Relations committee</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
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yes'>================================================</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Larry O. Degelman,
P.E. </span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Professor Emeritus of Architecture 1-979-696-2506</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=2
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