<div dir="ltr">Dear IBPSA-USA members,<br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You're invited to attend this Energy Technologies Area (<span>ETA</span>) <span>seminar</span>, taking place at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at <span><span>12:00pm</span></span> Thursday, July 2, 2015, at LBNL Bldg. 90, Room 3122.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><b>TITLE:</b> Commercial Building Energy Saver: An Energy Retrofit Analysis Toolkit<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><b>SPEAKER(S):</b> </font><font color="#3b3c3d" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary Ann Piette, Tianzhen Hong, Yixing Chen, et al.</font></div><div><font color="#3b3c3d" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>LOCATION:</b> LBNL Bldg. 90, Room 3122 (in Berkeley, California)<br><br><b>DATE & TIME:</b> <span><span>12:00 -1:00pm</span></span>, Thursday, July 2, 2015<br><br><b>DESCRIPTION: </b></font><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Small commercial
buildings in the United States consume 47% of the total primary energy of the
buildings sector. However retrofitting these buildings poses a huge challenge
for small and medium-sized enterprises as building owners usually lack the
expertise and resources to conduct on-site energy audit to identify and
evaluate cost-effective energy retrofit technologies. This seminar presents the
Commercial Building Energy Saver (CBES), an energy retrofit analysis toolkit,
which calculates the energy use of a building, identifies and evaluates
retrofit measures in terms of energy savings, energy cost savings and payback.
The toolkit provides a rich set of features as follows: (1) Energy Benchmarking
provides an ENERGY STAR score for the building and how it compares with other
peer buildings in California; (2) Load Shape Analysis identifies potential
building operation improvements using statistical analysis of the building’s
15-minute interval electricity use data; (3) Preliminary Retrofit Analysis
searches a pre-simulated database for retrofit measures based on investment
criteria; and (4) the Detailed Retrofit Analysis performs EnergyPlus simulations
to evaluate energy savings of user configurable energy conservation measures
considering the actual building characteristics and operation schedules. The
CBES Toolkit includes a web app (<a href="http://cbes.lbl.gov" target="_blank">cbes.lbl.gov</a>) for end users and the CBES
Application Programming Interface for integrating CBES with other energy
software tools. The object oriented software architecture of CBES enables its
expansion to cover more building types, more climates, and more building
technologies in future.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>BIO:</b></font> Mary Ann Piette is the Director of the
BTUS Division. She is a Staff Scientist and the PI of the CEC sponsored CBES
project. Tianzhen Hong is a Staff Scientist and Deputy Lead of the Simulation
Research Group. He is the lead of the CBES software development. Yixing Chen is
a postdoc and the chief software developer of the CBES. Sang Hoon Lee is a
Senior Scientific Engineering Associate and the developer of the Database of
Energy Efficiency Performance (DEEP) for preliminary retrofit analysis.
Rongpeng Zhang is a postdoc and the developer of the web app for the detailed
retrofit analysis. Kaiyu Sun is a Scientific Engineering Associate and the
developer of the automatic model calibration for CBES. Sarah Taylor-Lange is a
postdoc and the coordinator of the CBES development. Phil Price is a Staff
Scientist and the developer of the load shape analysis. William Fisk is a
Senior Scientist and led the IEQ measurement task of the project. Rengie Chan
is a Research Scientist and the developer of qualitative impact of retrofit
measures on IEQ. Norman Bourassa is a Project Manager and led the city partner
demonstration task. Margarita (Gari) Kloss is a Program Manager and the CBES
project manager.
</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For further information about this <span>seminar</span> please contact <a href="mailto:thong@lbl.gov" target="_blank">Tianzhen Hong</a>.</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A ReadyTalk Audio & Net conference will be offered during this event to allow remote participants to phone in to listen, while viewing the presentation via the website.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">==========================</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">USA & Canada call-in number: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="tel:1%20%28866%29%20740-1260" value="+18667401260" target="_blank">1 (866) 740-1260</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">International callers:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Please visit</span><a href="http://www.readytalk.com/an.php?tfnum=8667401260" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">this</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> website to see if a toll-free call-in number is available for your international location. If not, you will need to pay for the call yourself and use this phone number: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="tel:%28303%29%20248-0285" value="+13032480285" target="_blank">(303) 248-0285</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ph. Access Code: 4864835#</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Website: </span><a href="http://www.readytalk.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">www.readytalk.com</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Web Access Code: 4864835</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></font><br></div>
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