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<span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#666666">In this month’s IBPSA-NYC meet, we’re continuing the conversation on innovative ways to visualize building performance data.  </font></span></p>
<font color="#666666"><br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IBPSA-NYC’s new series of talks titled ‘Innovative Ways to Visualize Building Performance Data’</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">explores </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">an often under discussed topic of visualizing performance data to tell a good story. Hope you can join us in this conversation!</span></font></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IBPSA-USA New York Regional Chapter </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">presents</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Innovative Ways to Visualize Building Performance Data IV</span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Location:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> SIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGER, 550 Seventh Ave., 10th Floor, New York, NY  10018</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date & Time:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 6:00-7:30 PM.</span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6:00-6:30 PM</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre">  </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Networking</span></span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6:30-7:15 PM  </span><span style="font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spatial analysis of thermal and daylight building simulation data with Mr.Comfy</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Max Doelling, Developer, Mr.Comfy</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:15-7:30 PM</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre">  </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Q & A</span></span></p>
<br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3863636363636365;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Click here to register</b></span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3941388903256976641" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3941388903256976641</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Descriptions</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spatial analysis of thermal and daylight building simulation data with Mr.Comfy</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr.Comfy is a plugin for Rhinoceros3d's parametric modeling environment Grasshopper, written in Python, that allows designers to interactively visualize EnergyPlus thermal and Daysim climate-based daylight building simulation results data in design or daylight simulation models. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Instead of using charts or tabular formats, energy consumption, comfort, illuminance levels and any other available performance report variable are directly displayed through color-coded surfaces (and numeric values) where they occur – in the individual thermal zones of a design. Mr.Comfy thus bridges the gap between sustainable designers' need to analyze data spatially but still retain numeric precision and multiple data representation modes as typically exposed through traditional graphing.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The presentation introduces Mr.Comfy's key featues, relates them to sustainable architectural design cognition and presents several case studies of past student work.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr.Comfy is available free of charge at </span><a href="http://mrcomfy.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://MrComfy.org</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the Speaker:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Max is the developer of Mr.Comfy, a spatial thermal simulation data mapping tool, and founder in progress at </span><a href="http://designefficiency.net/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">designefficiency.net</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which will introduce design-driven building simulation to architects. He previously served at the TU as assistant professor in an EU-funded digital media literacy research project that investigated the effects of simulation and rapid prototyping technologies on architectural design. Max graduated from the TU Berlin in 2011 with a diploma in Architecture; prior to joining its academic staff, he volunteered as an urban and architectural designer for the Humane Society of the United States and India's Keystone Foundation.</span><span style="color:rgb(52,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pallavi Mantha</span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chair | IBPSA NYC</span></p>
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