<p style="margin-right:2.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;color:black">SimBuild 2012</span></p>     <p style="margin-right:2.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;color:black">5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA</span><br /><span style="font-size:15.0pt;
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color:black">August 1 - 3, 2012 – Madison,  WI</span></p>       <p style="margin-right:452.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"> </p>       <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#EE1C25">Call for Abstracts</span></p>    <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;mso-bidi-font-family:
FranklinGothic-Book;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">IBPSA-USA is soliciting abstracts for its fifth biennial conference on building performance simulation, SimBuild 2012. Please note that December 1st, 2011 is the deadline for all abstracts.</span></p>    <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference organizers are limiting the number of peer-reviewed oral presentations in order to maintain a high level of quality in the papers. Submissions will therefore be rigorously peer-reviewed. <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background:white">Paper submissions should deal with computer-based building performance simulation (BPS) with the scope ranging from individual building components to whole buildings and neighborhoods. Basic phenomena of interest include the modeling of heat and mass transfer, air movem
 ent, natural and electric light as well as controls and occupant behavior. Other suitable topics include new developments in tools for modeling and simulation, automated optimization during design and operations, stochastic modeling and data visualization, the generation of climate datasets and successful applications of BPS in design practice (case studies), incentive programs, building operations and education.</span></span></span></p>      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In addition to the technical papers, a limited number of non-peer-reviewed oral presentations will be sought in order to enable practitioners and researchers to address simulation-related issues such as: the future of BEM software; modeling controls in BEM software; use of simulation in real-time to support building operation; dealing with uncertainty in building performance simulation; validation, calibration and verification of simulation using real time data; model predictive contro
 l in buildings; use of BEM in a building system fault finding capacity; appropriate modeling for the different phases of a building design; and case studies of the application of modeling in building design.</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The meeting is open to all, world-wide. Madison is located in the middle of the US near to Chicago and Minneapolis. The conference will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison.</span></p>    <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Submission of Abstracts:</span></p>    <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Abstracts are due by December 1st, 2011 and should be a maximum of 200 words. Abstracts should be submitted through the SimBuild 2012 website. Please check back to the conference website for submission details at www.ibpsa.us/si
 mbuild2012</span></p>  <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Key Dates:</span></p>         <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">October 4th, 2011 Call for abstracts</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">December 1st, 2011 Abstracts due</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">December 31st, 2011 Abstract acceptance</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">February 28th, 2011 Papers due</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Mar 31st, 2011 Paper reviews provided to authors</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Apr 30th, 2011 Revised papers due</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">May 31st, 2011 Final decisions on all papers</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Aug 1 - Aug 3 SimBuild 2012 conference</sp
 an></p>                 <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Organizing Committee:</span></p>     <p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Conference Chair:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><br />Timothy McDowell, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Scientific Committee:</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">D. Michael Utzinger, Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Zheng O’Neill, United Technologies Research  Center</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Christoph Reinhardt, Harvard Graduate  School of Design</span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Michael Wetter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</span><br /><span style="font-size
 :10.0pt;color:black">David Bradley, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC</span></p>