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If you are NOT the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying this e-mail is strictly prohibited.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roth, Amir<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 18, 2011 2:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> Bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] energy modeler JTA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>All, <br> <br>Just to clarify. The DOE TDM (technical development manager) in charge of this project is Sonal Kemkar, cc'ed, who heads DOE's commercial building energy workforce development activities. Dan Studer from NREL is working with her on this project. I sent the email to IPBSA-USA on Sonal's request to elicit more feedback on this document, but I was otherwise not previously involved. Seeing that I am the TDM in charge of all of DOE's <i>other</i> building energy modeling activities, in retrospect that seems an epic fail on my part. Certainly, some of this confusion/distress/anger(?) could have been avoided had I been paying more attention and I want to apologize to everyone for that. Going forward, I promise to do my part to keep this process as inclusive, transparent, and productive as possible, just as Sonal and Dan have done to this point.<br> <br>Finally, I want to echo Chris Baker's sentiment--even with its inevitable imperfections this process represents a step forward for building energy modeling.<br> <br>Onwards,<br> <br>-Amir<br> <br>============<br>Amir Roth, PhD <br>Building Performance Simulation Tools, US DOE/EERE <br>Ph: 202.287.1694<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>