<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Dear All, </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Urban scale simulation research sub-committee of IBPSA USA would like to invite you to attend our 2018 webinar series. This series will introduce latest research on the urban scale modeling and simulation. We will kick off our first webinar with<span> </span><b>Dr. Tianzhen Hong from LBNL, USA</b>. </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Date:<span> </span><b>April 25^th, 2018</b><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Time:<span> </span><b>1pm PDT. </b><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Title: Urban Modeling For Large-Scale Assessment of Building Energy Efficiency Improvements<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Abstract:</b><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Buildings in U.S. cities consume up to 70% of the total primary energy. To achieve cities’ energy and climate goals, it is thus a key strategy to reducing energy use and GHG emissions in urban buildings through energy conservation and efficiency improvements. Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) is a powerful tool for cities and their energy planning consultants to assess the building stock and guide building retrofits at city-scale. The seminar presents LBNL's research on data, methods, tools and case studies of UBEM. Opportunities and challenges of UBEM will be discussed.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Presenter Bio:</b><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Dr. Tianzhen Hong is a Staff Scientist and Deputy Head of Building Technology Department. At LBNL, he leads the EnergyPlus development and co-leads the urban systems initiative at Energy Technologies Area. He also leads the urban building energy modeling as part of an exascale computing project collaborating with ANL, ORNL, NREL and PNNL. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Please register for Research/Urban Scale Simulation Subcommittee: Recent development in Urban Scale Simulation on Apr 25, 2018 1:00 PM PDT at:  <br><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/509320564182771203" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://attendee.gotowebinar.<wbr>com/register/<wbr>509320564182771203</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Thanks, </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif">Ralph<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Muehleisen </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">and Bing Dong</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Co-Chairs of Urban Scale Simulation Research Sub-committee</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">IBPSA-USA</span></p></div><br></div>