Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Daily Overview |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast sponsored by Ladybug Tools Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
New and Prospective Member Welcome Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Dimitri Contoyannis Meet first-time SimBuild attendees and new IBPSA-USA members for informal conversation and networking over a light breakfast. All are welcome to join before the conference gets underway. |
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| 8:30am - 8:40am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
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| 8:40am - 9:45am |
Plenary 1: Keynote by Anica Landreneau Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Nathaniel L Jones Anica Landreneau is HOK’s global sustainable design director, serving on the firm’s board of directors and design board. Based in Washington, D.C., Anica served as a mayoral appointee to the District of Columbia’s Green Building Advisory Council 2012-2025 and co-chaired the Building Energy Performance Standard Task Force 2019-2025. Anica has served three terms on the Green and Energy Codes Committee, supporting the district’s decarbonization code development. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
HackSimBuild: Introductions and Team Formation Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Ken Takahashi Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. HackSimBuild: Introductions and Team Formation |
Seminar 1: Taming The Wild West Of Building Simulation: Updates And Discussions On ANSI/ASHRAE/IBPSA 209-2024 "Building Performance Simulation Process" Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Timothy McDowell This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Taming The Wild West Of Building Simulation: Updates And Discussions On ANSI/ASHRAE/IBPSA 209-2024 "Building Performance Simulation Process" |
Seminar 2: Quest for Zero LEED Comments Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Ralph T. Muehleisen Chair: Rashmi Baliga Sponsored by DesignBuilder This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Quest for Zero LEED Comments |
Technical Session 1: HVAC System Modeling and Controls Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Yunyang Ye This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. More Than a Label: Modeling Modern Heat Pump Performance Beyond Seasonal Efficiency Ratings 10:15am - 10:30am Development of a Hybrid Simulation Platform for Training and Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Commercial Buildings 10:30am - 10:45am Principal Variate Selection Approach for LSTM Building Load Forecasting 10:45am - 11:00am Simulation-Based Validation of An Open-Source, Scalable Framework for Building Energy Management in Small and Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Networking Break sponsored by IES Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Demo 1: DesignBuilder Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Presentation Session 1: From Design to Operation: Bridging the Performance Gap Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman Sponsored by Trane Technologies This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Closing the Gap between High-Performance Design and Operations 11:45am - 11:52am Wake Up Your Design Models for Use in Operations 11:52am - 12:00pm Real-Time HVAC Control Using FMU-Based Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation 12:00pm - 12:07pm From Sensors to Strategy: A Practical Digital Twin Implementation for Office Buildings 12:07pm - 12:15pm HVAC Pathways For A Historic Net-Zero Building Using Whole-Building Energy Modeling 12:15pm - 12:22pm Simulation Driven Energy Retrofit of a Historic Campus Building: Georgia Tech’s D.M. Smith Renovation |
Seminar 3: Simulation Showcase: What Makes Simulation Work Stand Out Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Nan Ma This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Simulation Showcase: What Makes Simulation Work Stand Out |
Technical Session 2: Modeling Data Centers Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Cary Faulkner Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. EBuild AI: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Generating Global, Simulation-Ready Urban Building Datasets 11:45am - 12:00pm A Framework for Generating and Simulating Prototype Energy Models of U.S. Data Centers at National Scale 12:00pm - 12:15pm Control-Oriented Prototype Energy Model for Data Centers 12:15pm - 12:22pm A Case Study on Staging Mixed-Age Computer Room Air Conditioning Systems Considering Performance Degradation 12:22pm - 12:30pm System‑Level Modeling to De‑Risk Data Center Thermal & Control Systems |
Technical Session 3: Windows and Views Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Yifan Li Chair: Chris Savage This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. A Physiologically-Informed Visual Field Method for Assessing Space View Quality 11:45am - 12:00pm Validating Daylight, View, and Privacy Metrics through In-Situ Experiments in NYC Residential Units 12:00pm - 12:15pm Exploring the Interplay Between Window Design and External Views on Window-Opening Preferences in Educational Settings 12:15pm - 12:30pm Automating Window View Assessment in BIM to Optimize View Quality: ViWin App Demo & Focus Group |
| 11:30am - 3:00pm |
HackSimBuild Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch sponsored by US Department of Energy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Presentation Session 2: Urban Scale Modeling in Practice: From Digital Twins to District Systems Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Kate Bomar Chair: Mathew Duffy This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. ClimaTwin - A Microclimate Digital Twin for Urban Outdoor Comfort 1:45pm - 2:00pm Decarbonization Strategy for Large Building Portfolio 2:00pm - 2:15pm Bringing Ambient Loop Thermal Energy Networks to Life 2:15pm - 2:30pm Platform-Based Design to Scale Cost-Effective, Reliable Retrofit of Large-Scale Energy Systems 2:30pm - 2:37pm Game Engines for Building Performance Visualization 2:37pm - 2:45pm Leveraging Different Simulation Software to Create Incremental Wins: Combining GLD, IES-VE, and TRNSYS in Modeling Geothermal Networks |
Seminar 4: From "What?" to "So What?": How to Make an Impact with Your Research Paper Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Ryunhee Kim This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. From "What?" to "So What?": How to Make an Impact with Your Research Paper |
Technical Session 4: Generative AI and LLM Applications in Building Energy Modeling Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Cary Faulkner This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Eplusout Model Context Protocol (MCP): Large Language Model (LLM)-Enabled Simulation Results 1:45pm - 2:00pm LLM-Informed Efficient Bayesian Calibration of Building Energy Simulation Models under Limited Data 2:00pm - 2:15pm Evaluating Prompt Engineering in Large Language Models (LLMs) for Transforming Occupant Behavior Modeling 2:15pm - 2:30pm BEMEval-Doc2Schema: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Structured Data Extraction in Building Energy Modeling 2:30pm - 2:37pm Eppy-LLM: An Agentic Workflow for Language-Driven Building Energy Modeling And Optimization Using EnergyPlus 2:37pm - 2:45pm Combining Generative Modeling and Advanced Control for Building Scenario Generation 2:45pm - 2:52pm Generalized and Localized AI Models for Urban Energy Characterization: A Comparative Analysis for UBEM Inputs Inference 2:52pm - 3:00pm Extracting Data from Construction Drawings with Multimodal Generative AI |
Technical Session 5: Modeling for Future Weather and Extreme Events Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Alexandra Rempel Sponsored by IES This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. From Data to Dialogue: A Visual Framework for Interpreting fTMY Future Weather Data in Climate-Responsive Design 1:45pm - 2:00pm Specialized Weather Data Files for Evaluating Thermal Safety and Grid Reliability Applications 2:00pm - 2:15pm Towards a Robust Approach for Simulating Thermal Resilience in Architectural Design: A literature review and benchmarking test in all US climate zones 2:15pm - 2:22pm Profiling Building Demand Flexibility for Out-of-Scenario Transferability Using Frequency-Domain Decomposition 2:22pm - 2:30pm Balancing Energy Efficiency and Overheating Risks: Optimal Retrofit Pathways for Baltimore Rowhouses 2:30pm - 2:45pm Net Zero as Climate Resilience: Rethinking Net Zero Energy Building Performance Under Future Climate Change 2:45pm - 2:52pm Building For The Future: Using Python To Generate Future EPWs for Modelling |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Networking Break sponsored by DesignBuilder Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Demo 2: IES Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Unmet Hours Live Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Presentation Session 3: Energy Modeling Demystified: Workflows, Tools, and Insights Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Parastoo Delgoshaei Sponsored by Pollination, a Ladybug Tools product This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Early Phase Integrated Design Decision Making with Building Performance Analysis - A Renovation Project Case Study 3:45pm - 4:00pm From BIM to Semantics to Simulation for Building Electrical Systems 4:00pm - 4:15pm History, Evolution and the Role of Prototype Building Energy Models 4:15pm - 4:30pm Differentiable Gray-box Modeling for Predictive Control of HVAC Systems 4:30pm - 4:37pm Bridging the Temperature Gap: Dynamic Simulation of Cascaded Heat Pumps for Medium-Temperature Hot Water Systems 4:37pm - 4:45pm Phase Change Ceiling Tile Modeling in IESVE 4:45pm - 4:52pm But Why? An Energy Modeling Reality Check 4:52pm - 5:00pm Thermal Resilience: What You Need to Know |
Seminar 5: What is Reality Really?: ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 140's First Empirical Validation Test Suite Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Joel Neymark This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. What is Reality Really?: ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 140's First Empirical Validation Test Suite |
Seminar 6: Effective Storytelling through Data Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Effective Storytelling through Data |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
IBPSA-USA Cocktail Hour Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 6:00pm - 8:30pm |
IBPSA-USA Awards Banquet Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Join us for an unforgettable evening of celebration at the Awards Banquet! It’s the perfect opportunity to honor the incredible achievements of your peers, including the recipients of IBPSA-USA awards, conference accolades, and the HackSimBuild winners. Come relax, socialize, and celebrate these accomplishments after a full day of engaging seminars and presentations! Registration includes a plated meal. |
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