[Ibpsausa] Urban Modeling Training

[Jocelyn Gan via Ibpsausa]

Dea IPBSA-USA Members,

I'd like to inform you of an upcoming event at the Building Energy Exchange:

*Urban Modeling Training: A training by Christoph Reinhart of MIT*
<http://be-exchange.org/events/251>
August 4 - 5, 2016 | 9 AM to 5 PM

Join Christoph Reinhart of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a
hands-on 2 day workshop that will teach participants the power of new
modeling software to aid in sustainable urban design.

Cities across the planet are growing at an unprecedented speed. To
accommodate the rising number of residents, city governments need to
densify and expand while managing their carbon emissions. At the same time,
to attract and maintain a competitive workforce, cities have to ensure that
the quality of their built environment is not sacrificed at the expense of
density. The overall goal is thus to design sustainable, high density
neighborhoods that combine building resource–efficiency with quality indoor
and outdoor spaces, which in turn support community building and favor
human powered modes of transportation.

To help city governments and their consultants to develop such
neighborhoods, theSustainable Design Lab at MIT has developed an urban
modeling platform called umi. This platform calculates urban performance
indicators related to operational and embodied energy use as well as access
to daylight and neighborhood walkability. In this course we will present
the science and models underlying umi in a manner that is accessible to an
audience of urban planners, city governments, utilities, consultants and
architects. Participants will acquire a range of urban analysis techniques
and be exposed to results from several umi case studies world-wide.

Specific simulation outputs that will be discussed are:

   - Operational and embodied building energy use
   - Neighborhood-wide daylight availability
   - Walkability

The course format are formal instructions, in-class discussions, software
tutorials and exercises. Participants are expected to bring a newer Windows
laptop withRhinoceros 3D and umi 2.1 already installed on it.

TRAINING DATES & TIMES
This is a two-day workshop

August 4 - 10 am to 5 pm
August 5 - 9 am to 4 pm

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and architectural educator
working in the field of sustainable building design and environmental
modeling. At MIT, he is leading the Sustainable Design Lab, an
inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops
design workflows, planning tools, and metrics to evaluate the environmental
performance of buildings and neighborhoods. Christoph’s work has been
recognized with various awards among them the ARUP Best Paper Prize at
Building Simulation 2009 and the 2010 Leon Gaster Price from the Society of
Light and Lighting.

-- 
*Jocelyn Gan*
*Programs Associate*
o: 212.349.3900 * |*  m: 646.789.3223

Building Energy Exchange
31 Chambers Street, Suite 609
New York, NY 10007
www.be-exchange.org
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