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<td>DOE Announces Request for Information on DRAFT R&D
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<td>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:11:47 -0500</td>
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<h1 style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 26px;
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Announces Request for Information on "DRAFT
Research and Development Opportunities for
Building Energy Modeling"</h1>
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to solicit feedback from industry, academia,
research laboratories, government agencies,
and other stakeholders on BTO’s Building
Energy Modeling (BEM) program and its future
directions and priorities. To clarify these,
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structured around six focus areas (the BEM
value proposition, predictive accuracy of BEM,
core modeling capabilities, workflow
integration and automation, the BEM data
ecosystem, and the BEM professional
community). The report identifies barriers to
the increased adoption of BEM and proposes a
set of initiatives to address them.</font></p>
<p><font size="3"> BTO is requesting feedback on
each of these barriers, the associated
initiatives, and barriers and initiatives that
have not been identified. In particular, BTO
is interested in feedback on planned
initiatives and their prioritization, on
program scope, and on data-sets, metrics and
targets for assessing program effectiveness
and impact. </font></p>
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<li><font size="3">The purpose of this RFI is
DOE welcomes written comments from the
public on an subject within the scope of
this document (including topics not raised
in this request for information). </font></li>
<li><font size="3">DOE will accept comments and
feedback until 5:00pm (ET) on June 1, 2019.</font></li>
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