[Ibpsausa] IBPSA-USA Membership Dues

[mcdowell at tess-inc.com]

To help support our expanding set of programs and services, IBPSA-USA, 
a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization is beginning a membership dues 
program:

Effective in 2013, members will have an annual membership dues of 
$90.00, or $20 for student members.

A fully activated membership paid by January 16, 2013 will qualify you 
to vote, either in person or by proxy, in the Board of Directors 
Election which will be held on January 26th at the IBPSA-USA Annual 
Meeting in Dallas, the location of ASHRAE’s Winter Conference.

The IBPSA-USA membership system can be accessed at 
http://ibpsausa.wildapricot.org/ or through the IBPSA-USA website at 
www.ibpsa.us.

Questions regarding membership dues may be directed to 
membership at ibpsa.us.

Expanding IBPSA-USA Programs & Services

Recently the domain of building energy modeling has been growing 
substantially. IBPSA-USA has been leading in providing new services to 
help provide much-needed support, including:

- BEMBook wiki (bembook.ibpsa.us)
- One day seminar on energy modeling (HVAC emphasis), delivered a dozen 
times so far and available free online
- One day seminar on lighting & daylighting modeling, with RFP under 
final internal review
- Developing policies to set direction
- Developing support services for many new local IBPSA chapters
- Hosting bi-annual simulation conferences, the most recent being 
SimBuild 2012, the 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA
- Quarterly newsletter

We have focused on providing support for young modelers, and we promote 
and develop open source products.

To support these growing list of activities, we are adding modest staff 
resources.

We will continue to actively cultivate other sources of support for our 
expanding programs, and we are hopeful that most of the current members 
will support the objectives of the organization with their membership 
dues.

Regards,

Timothy McDowell
IBPSA-USA Membeship Coordinator


-- 
Timothy P. McDowell
Executive Vice President
Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC
22 N Carroll St, Suite 370
Madison, WI 53703
608-274-2577