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    <small><small><span style="font-size: 33pt; font-family:
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                    The deadline for submitting abstracts for the
                  IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2012 Conference being held August
                  1-3, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin is being extended one
                  week until December 9, 2011. Abstracts should be
                  submitted online by visiting:<br>
                  <br>
                  <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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    The original call for papers is included below for reference.<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
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Thermal Energy Systems Specialists, LLC
22 North Carroll Street - suite 370
Madison, WI  53703 USA

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