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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a
name="LETTER.BLOCK8"><strong><span
style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">Tools, DOE Roadmap,
BEMP Certification Featured at
ASHRAE’s Energy Modeling Conference
April 4-6</span></strong></a><strong><span
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<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">ASHRAE’s Energy Modeling
Conference: Tools for Designing High
Performance Buildings,
</span><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";">April
4-6, 2011, ASHRAE Headquarters, Atlanta,
Ga., will provide hands-on modelers and
principals with the information to better
harness the power of energy modeling
tools.<span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">The strength of the
conference is its focus on different
software tools. The conference addresses:</span></p>
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10pt; margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">· How things get modeled
and the impact of input data on energy
models;
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<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">· What the strengths are of
different software products in modeling
specific applications;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">· A comparison on how
different tools address specific systems
and
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10pt; margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">· Demonstrations, offered
in a group session and individually by
vendor sponsors, of software tools</span></p>
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10pt; margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">Some of the software tools
to be presented include ArchiCAD, Apache,
Autodesk, Bentley, Ecotect, EnergyPlus,
EPGUI, eQuest, Graphisoft, IES Virtual
Environment, OpenStudio, Revit, Trane
TRACE and TRNSYS.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">Keynote speakers are Lynn
G. Bellenger, P.E., ASHRAE president and
William J. Worthen, American Institute of
Architecture's (AIA) national director and
resource architect for sustainability.</span></p>
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10pt; margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";
color: black;">In addition, on April 6,
the U.S. Department of Energy is launching
its development roadmap for EnergyPlus,
OpenStudio, EPGUI and other tools. See
proposed changes and provide feedback on
the roadmap and on DOE's general
activities in the simulation tools area.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span
style="font-family:
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color: black;">Registration is $500
($450, ASHRAE, AIA and USGBC members).
Seating is limited – register today!
Advance registration closes March 21.
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<b><span style="font-family:
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color: black;">For hotel, technical
program, more information and to
register, visit the conference website
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color: blue; text-decoration: none;">www.ashrae.org/energymodeling</span></strong></a><b><span
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Engineers, Inc<br>
1791 Tullie Cir. Atlanta, GA 30329</font></font></div>
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