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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Urban scale simulation research
sub-committee of IBPSA USA would like to invite you to attend our 2018 webinar
series. This series will introduce latest research on the urban scale modeling
and simulation. We will kick off our first webinar with <b>Dr. Tianzhen Hong from
LBNL, USA</b>. </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Date: <b>April 25<sup style="">th</sup>, 2018</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Time: <b>1pm PDT. </b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Title: Urban Modeling For Large-Scale
Assessment of Building Energy Efficiency Improvements<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Abstract: </b><span></span></span></p>

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up to 70% of the total primary energy. To achieve cities’ energy and climate
goals, it is thus a key strategy to reducing energy use and GHG emissions in
urban buildings through energy conservation and efficiency improvements. Urban
building energy modeling (UBEM) is a powerful tool for cities and their energy
planning consultants to assess the building stock and guide building retrofits
at city-scale. The seminar presents LBNL's research on data, methods, tools and
case studies of UBEM. Opportunities and challenges of UBEM will be discussed.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Presenter
Bio: </b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Dr.
Tianzhen Hong is a Staff Scientist and Deputy Head of Building Technology
Department. At LBNL, he leads the EnergyPlus development and co-leads the urban
systems initiative at Energy Technologies Area. He also leads the urban
building energy modeling as part of an exascale computing project collaborating
with ANL, ORNL, NREL and PNNL. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Please register for Research/Urban
Scale Simulation Subcommittee: Recent development in Urban Scale Simulation on
Apr 25, 2018 1:00 PM PDT at:  <br>
<a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/509320564182771203"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/509320564182771203</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Thanks, </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif">Ralph <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Muehleisen </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">and Bing Dong</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Co-Chairs of Urban Scale Simulation
Research Sub-committee</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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