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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear colleagues and friends in the Greater Boston Area,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As recently announced to this list, we will be launching an IBPSA-USA chapter for the greater Boston area <b>next Tuesday</b>, February 22<sup>nd</sup>, from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM, at the Harvard Design School which is located at 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge. We will be in Gund Hall Room 112, right next to the cafeteria. We have a panel of speakers from IBPSA USA as well as local practitioners and scholars who will provide short overviews of the current state of building performance simulation within their area of expertise as well as their vision of where BPS should be heading and what role the local chapter of IBPSA USA could play to facilitate this process. In the future we intend to organize quarterly morning meetings during which speaker pairs from industry and academia will share their results and activities related to BPS. <b>We need your input</b> and I hope that hope many of you in the Boston area will find the time to join us next Tuesday. We also have a number of board openings to fill!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Autodesk is very kindly providing coffee and pastries for the event which we will have to order by tomorrow at noon. So, please make time, join us and RVSP now at <a href="http://www.ibpsa-boston.com"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.ibpsa-boston.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christoph</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Christoph Reinhart, Dr. Ing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Associate Professor of Architectural Technology</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Graduate School of Design - Harvard University</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Gund Hall 331, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>t: 617 384 7269, f: 617 495 8916, </span><a href="mailto:reinhart@gsd.harvard.edu"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>reinhart@gsd.harvard.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/gsdsquare/"><span style='color:blue'>Research</span></a>, <a href="http://www.diva-for-rhino.com/"><span style='color:blue'>DIVA-toolbox</span></a>, <a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/gsdsquare/tutorials.html"><span style='color:blue'>Design Workflows</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>