<div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Please join
us for the IBPSA-USA DC Chapter meetup on October 15th at Baumann Consulting!
This time we will have presentations given by Amir Roth, Dru Crawley, and Roger
Chang. The topic of presentations includes grid interactive building, road map,
BIM to BEM, and process energy index. Come out for an evening of
networking with the local building performance simulation experts, share your
distinctive ideas about the EM industry, and get some exercise by playing the ping-pong
game afterward.  </span><br></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If you would like to attend, <b>RSVP through the Eventbrite link
below: </b></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></b></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ibpsa-usa-dc-chapter-meetup-tickets-76059045653" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ibpsa-usa-dc-chapter-meetup-tickets-76059045653</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">If you’re unable to make the
meeting in-person, you can join<b> remotely</b> via the skype meeting link (</span><a href="https://meet.lync.com/ebertbaumann-baumann-us/y.zhang/6HPFFPS5" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Join
Skype Meeting</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">)</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Date & Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">  Tuesday, October 15, 2019, from 5:30 –
7:00 pm</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">  Baumann Consulting – 1424 K St NW,
Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Nearest
Metro: McPherson Square (Orange, Blue, and Silver lines)</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Agenda:</span></b></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">5:30 – 6:00 pm Networking</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">6:00 – 6:45 pm Presentations &
Discussions</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">6:45 – 7:00 pm Networking/Ping-Pong
game</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">About the Speakers:</span></b></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Amir Roth</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, Ph.D. – Technology manager at US Department
of Energy</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Amir Roth is the Technical Manager
for building energy modeling (BEM) tools in the DOE’s Building Technologies
Program (BTP). BEM is used in building design and in the development of
building energy efficiency codes and ratings, and increasingly in code
compliance, building certification, building diagnostics and fault detection,
building control system development, and dynamic building control. Among the
projects, Amir manages EnergyPlus, DOE’s industry-leading whole building energy
modeling engine, and OpenStudio, DOE’s BEM productivity, interoperability, and
utility middleware.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dru Crawley</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, Ph.D. - Bentley Fellow/ Director, Building
Performance Research at Bentley Systems</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-lt-line-clampraw-line"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Crawley
is Bentley Fellow and Director, Building Performance Research, thought leader
focusing on building performance, BIM, zero-energy buildings, interoperability,
smart cities, and sustainability. He is also an ASHRAE Fellow and an IBPSA
Fellow. Before joining Bentley in 2010, Dr. Crawley developed, launched and
managed USDOE’s Commercial Building Initiative (zero-energy commercial
buildings (now Better Buildings)). He also managed DOE’s building energy
software research and development including EnergyPlus, OpenStudio, Energy-10,
and DOE-2.</span></span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></i></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Roger Chang</span></u></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, PE, LEED Fellow - Engineering Leader at DLR
Group</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Roger Change serves as a firmwide
mechanical engineering discipline leader and DC office engineering leader at
DLR Group. He is passionate about integrated design and high-performance
buildings. His research experience includes work at NIST, collaboration with
the Harvard School of Public Health, and natural ventilation work on the first
LEED Platinum building in the world, the Philip Merrill Environmental Center.
He has experienced LEED from its infancy to what it has become today and
regularly speaks at conferences on integrated design and high-performance
buildings.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Who is IBPSA?</span></b></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">International Building Performance
Simulation Association (IBPSA) is a non-profit, international society of
building performance simulation researchers, developers, and practitioners,
dedicated to improving the built environment.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What does IBPSA seek to do?</span></b></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Advance and promote the science of
building simulation in order to improve the health of occupants, and the
design, construction, operation, and maintenance of new and existing buildings.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">For More
Information:  </span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ibpsa.us/chapter/washington-dc" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.ibpsa.us/chapter/washington-dc</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p style="line-height:19.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ibpsa.us/about" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.ibpsa.us/about</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
reach out to </span><a href="mailto:y.zhang@baumann-us.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">y.zhang@baumann-us.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for any questions. </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Yuna Zhang</div>
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