ASHRAE announces Energy Modeling Conference.
Press Release Summary:
Slated for October 1-3, 2012 in Atlanta, ASHRAE's Energy Modeling Conference - Tools for Designing High Performance Buildings will guide building design professionals about what does and does not work when using currently available modeling tools to design and analyze buildings and their energy using systems. With focus on case studies and real world examples, conference will allow exchange of ideas among design professionals and software developers.
Original Press Release:
ASHRAE Announces Energy Modeling Conference, Call for Presenters
ATLANTA - An upcoming ASHRAE specialty conference seeks to advance the industry's ability to more accurately model and simulate a building's energy use.
ASHRAE's Energy Modeling Conference - Tools for Designing High Performance Buildings is slated for Oct. 1-3, 2012 in Atlanta. The conference will guide building design professionals about what does and does not work when using currently available modeling tools to design and analyze buildings and their energy using systems.
"The conference will provide the design professional with 'workarounds' that may be applied to improve the results of their modeling results when their modeling tool of choice may not be capable of modeling some of the more unique or hybrid buildings or energy using systems being used in high performance buildings today," Dennis Knight, conference chair, said.
With a focus on case studies and real world examples, the conference will allow an exchange of ideas among design professionals and software developers to facilitate understanding of current modeling tools and their capabilities and limitations and identify the need for new tools and improvements to existing modeling and simulation tools. The conference will guide design professionals toward developing in-house modeling checklists and quality control procedures to improve their competence and confidence in making decisions and recommendations based on modeling in their day-to-day practices.
Building on the successful Energy Modeling Conference format in April 2011, this conference will begin with an interactive session with modeling software developers presenting common modeling scenarios on how their specific software can model a scenario, whether there are any limitations and what might be the best work around and exceptional modeling practices to obtain acceptable results when the tool cannot
model the scenario out-of-the-box.
Call for Presenters
ASHRAE seeks presentations on case studies and actual projects and how they were analyzed and designed using modeling tools as well as integrated and interoperable modeling tools to best optimize buildings and energy-using systems. Presentation abstracts are requested on the following topics:
To submit a presentation application, visit www.ashrae.org/EMC2012. Information required for the submission are a 300-500 word abstract, 100 word "promotion" abstract and other information.
Presenters will give an oral presentation, have their presentations posted online for conference attendees and receive a substantially-reduced conference registration rate.
Presentation Schedule:
Full Page Abstracts due: Feb. 15, 2012
Notification of abstract decisions: March 15, 2012 Accepted speaker
forms due: April 15, 2012 Presentations due: Sept. 1, 2012
Conference: October 2012
For more information, go to www.ashrae.org/EMC2012.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education.
