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<small><small><span style="font-size: 33pt; font-family:
FranklinGothic-Book; color: black;"><small><small><small><small>Colleagues,<br>
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the
IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2012 Conference being held August
1-3, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin is today Friday,
December 9, 2011. Abstracts should be submitted online
by visiting:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gaia.lbl.gov/ocs/index.php/simbuild/2012/login">https://gaia.lbl.gov/ocs/index.php/simbuild/2012/login</a>
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<small><small><span style="font-size: 33pt; font-family:
FranklinGothic-Book; color: black;"><small><small><small><small>This
is the final announcement regarding abstracts, I
promise. </small></small></small></small></span></small></small><br>
Kind regards,<br>
David Bradley<br>
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<p style="margin-right:2.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:33.0pt;font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;
mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;color:black">SimBuild
2012</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:2.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;
mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;color:black">5th
National Conference of IBPSA-USA</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15.0pt;
font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;
color:black">August 1 - 3, 2012 – Madison, WI</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:452.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#EE1C25">Call
for Abstracts</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;mso-bidi-font-family:FranklinGothic-Book;color:black"> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">IBPSA-USA is soliciting
abstracts for its fifth biennial conference on building
performance simulation, SimBuild 2012. Please note that December
1st, 2011 is the deadline for all abstracts.</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference organizers are limiting
the number of peer-reviewed oral presentations in order to
maintain a high level of quality in the papers. Submissions will
therefore be rigorously peer-reviewed. <span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="background:white">Paper
submissions should deal with computer-based building
performance simulation (BPS) with the scope ranging from
individual building components to whole buildings and
neighborhoods. Basic phenomena of interest include the
modeling of heat and mass transfer, air movement, natural
and electric light as well as controls and occupant
behavior. Other suitable topics include new developments in
tools for modeling and simulation, automated optimization
during design and operations, stochastic modeling and data
visualization, the generation of climate datasets and
successful applications of BPS in design practice (case
studies), incentive programs, building operations and
education.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In addition to
the technical papers, a limited number of non-peer-reviewed oral
presentations will be sought in order to enable practitioners
and researchers to address simulation-related issues such as:
the future of BEM software; modeling controls in BEM software;
use of simulation in real-time to support building operation;
dealing with uncertainty in building performance simulation;
validation, calibration and verification of simulation using
real time data; model predictive control in buildings; use of
BEM in a building system fault finding capacity; appropriate
modeling for the different phases of a building design; and case
studies of the application of modeling in building design.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The meeting is
open to all, world-wide. Madison is located in the middle of the
US near to Chicago and Minneapolis. The conference will be held
at The Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison.</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Submission
of Abstracts:</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Abstracts
are due by December 1st, 2011 and should be a maximum of 200
words. Abstracts should be submitted through the SimBuild 2012
website. Please check back to the conference website for
submission details at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.ibpsa.us/simbuild2012">www.ibpsa.us/simbuild2012</a></span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Key
Dates:</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">October
4th, 2011 Call for abstracts</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">December 1st, 2011
Abstracts due</span><small><br>
</small> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">December 9th,
2011 Extended abstract submittal date</span><small><br>
</small> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">December 31st, 2011
Abstract acceptance</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">February 28th, 2011
Papers due</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Mar 31st, 2011 Paper
reviews provided to authors</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Apr 30th, 2011 Revised
papers due</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">May 31st, 2011 Final
decisions on all papers</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Aug 1 - Aug 3 SimBuild
2012 conference</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#EE1C24">Organizing
Committee:</span></p>
<p style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Conference
Chair:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><br>
Timothy McDowell, Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Scientific Committee:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">D. Michael Utzinger,
Chair, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Zheng O’Neill, United
Technologies Research Center</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Christoph Reinhardt,
Harvard Graduate School of Design</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Michael Wetter,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">David Bradley, Thermal
Energy System Specialists, LLC</span></p>
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David BRADLEY
Principal
Thermal Energy Systems Specialists, LLC
22 North Carroll Street - suite 370
Madison, WI 53703 USA
P:+1.608.274.2577
F:+1.608.278.1475
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