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 Trane Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Women in IBPSA Meetup Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman Chair: Kyleen Rockwell Take a break from technical jargon and join a casual and supportive group focused on women’s experience in the industry. We’ll be talking about professional development, career challenges and opportunities, personal experiences and more! All are welcome to join and support discussion of gender specific industry ideas and challenges. |
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| 8:30am - 8:45am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Jayati Chhabra Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
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| 8:45am - 9:45am |
Plenary 2: Keynote by Mary Ann Piette Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Neal Kruis Chair: Andreas Berres Mary Ann Piette is the Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ETA conducts research to accelerate innovation to provide affordable, reliable, secure and abundant energy systems. She has been at LBNL for over 3 decades. ETA’s work ranges from advancing building technologies, to novel manufacturing systems, advanced materials for energy storage, cybersecure grid technologies and efficient data centers. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Presentation Session 4: AI for Energy Modeling: What Actually Works Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Nathan Kegel This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. AI-Assisted EnergyPlus: Implementation of Context-Aware AI Integration in an EnergyPlus UI (EP3) 10:15am - 10:30am Energyplus MCP Server for AI-Assisted Building Energy Modeling 10:30am - 10:45am Simulations Made by Machines: How Agentic AI Enables Learning of Simulation Tools |
Presentation Session 5: Building Envelope Performance and Modeling Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Joel Neymark Chair: Yifan Li Sponsored by Better Building This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Hygrothermal Modeling in EnergyPlus - It's Better Than You Think 10:15am - 10:30am 3D Thermal Bridge Effects on Complex Facades Details; Practical Importance and Modelling Strategies 10:30am - 10:45am Measurement-Constrained Modeling of CLT Zone Temperature Dynamics: Comparing Mass, Air Capacitance, and Interior Convection 10:45am - 10:52am An Approach for Whole-Building Performance Modeling of Adaptive Kinetic Façades Using Surrogate Modeling 10:52am - 11:00am Thermal Bridging Modeling 101 for North American Codes & Standards |
Seminar 7: Unmet Fulfillment Hours? You Need Building Simulation Career Advice! Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Kyle Konis This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Unmet Fulfillment Hours? You Need Building Simulation Career Advice! |
Technical Session 6: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Jingshi Zhang This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Economizer Scoring Framework for AHU Performance Assessment 10:15am - 10:30am Simulating the Impact of Photovoltaic Cell Temperature on Electricity Production under Various Global Climates 10:30am - 10:37am An Impulse-based Fluid Dynamics for Fast Indoor Airflow Simulation 10:37am - 10:45am System Identification for a Building Thermal Model from Observational Data in the Presence of Unmeasured Disturbances 10:45am - 10:52am Novel pair-wise Comparison Methodology for the Validation of Analytical Building Performance Modelling 10:52am - 11:00am Audit Template: A Modular, Interoperable Web-Based Platform for Building Energy Audits and Retrofit Planning |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Networking Break sponsored by Better Building Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Demo 3: Trane Location: Lake Bemidji |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Seminar 8: Roast My Visualization Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Carrie Horazeck This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Roast My Visualization |
Seminar 9: Advancing Sustainable Architecture: Data-Driven Tools To Design, Simulate, & Succeed Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Charles Barnaby Sponsored by Trane Technologies This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Advancing Sustainable Architecture: Data-Driven Tools To Design, Simulate, & Succeed |
Technical Session 7: Integrated Energy Systems and Multi-Domain Optimization Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Yunyang Ye Sponsored by Pollination, a Ladybug Tools product This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Optimized Control for Integrated Photovoltaic and Water Distribution System Applications 11:45am - 12:00pm Solar-Hydrogen Building Skins: Validating Simulations through Experimentation 12:00pm - 12:15pm Thermal Performance Optimization of Battery Energy Storage Enclosure for South Pole Applications 12:15pm - 12:30pm BESTOpt: A Modular, Physics-Informed Machine Learning based Building Modeling, Control and Optimization Framework |
Technical Session 8: California Energy Studies I: Systems, Retrofits, and Code Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Fatemeh Yousefi Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy. This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Passively Survivable Apartments: Retrofit Strategies for Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles During Extreme Heat Events 11:45am - 11:52am Simulation Tool For The Configuration And Control Design Of Central Plant Heat Recovery Heat Pump Retrofits 11:52am - 12:00pm Updating Plug Loads and Operational Schedules for California Energy Code Compliance 12:00pm - 12:07pm Parametric Energy and Cost Optimization for Courthouse Portfolios in California 12:07pm - 12:15pm Validating the Electric Dream: Comparison of Modeled and Measured Performance of a High-Efficiency, All-Electric Residential Retrofit in Los Angeles, California |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch and Annual General Meeting Location: Great Lakes Ballroom |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
HackSimBuild: Presentations Location: Great Lakes Ballroom 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: Presentations BUILDRIX: An Open-Source Agentic AI Platform for Real World Building Challenges Design2BEM True PrestoGeo Simpler Geometry Creation for Existing Buildings AquaFlow: Empowering Early Decision-making for Site-level Water Management |
Presentation Session 6: Beyond Energy: Lifecycle Carbon and Design Decisions Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jihoon Chung Chair: Jayati Chhabra This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Whole Life Carbon Studies – Now With More Carbon! 1:45pm - 2:00pm Carbon Critical: a Detailed Research on Carbon and Cost over the Life of a Building Design in Three Different Locations 2:00pm - 2:15pm What Should Count? Defining LCA Scope For Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects 2:15pm - 2:22pm From Simulation to Sustainability: Empowering Decarbonization through Energy Modeling, Design Optimization, and Cost Analysis 2:22pm - 2:30pm Redefining Material Performance in LEED v5: Impacts on Health, Emissions, and Practice |
Seminar 10: Navigating the Complexities of High Performance Building Standards Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Mohammad Dabbagh Chair: Rashmi Baliga Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy. This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Navigating the Complexities of High Performance Building Standards |
Technical Session 9: Affordability and Climate Resilience in Buildings Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Amanda Webb This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Probabilistic Modeling Approach for Estimating Rent Impacts of Energy Retrofits 1:45pm - 2:00pm Overheating in Residential Buildings in the United States 2:00pm - 2:15pm Scalable, Modular Resilience Hubs 2:15pm - 2:30pm Quantitative Model of Building Energy Performance due to Wind-Induced Envelope Damage |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Demo 4: Better Building Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Poster Session Location: Boundary Waters Foyer Network with the 18 poster authors, sponsors, and other SimBuild attendees, and vote for your favorite poster. High Performance Building as Resilience Hub: Designing for Passive Survivability and Energy Resilience From Pilot to Practice: Turning Whole-Building Carbon Accounting into Real-World Design Decisions Phase Change Material Integration in Building Energy Simulation Using OpenStudio Measures and Python Library Efficient Residential Energy Model Calibration for Field Audits: Targeted Parameter Optimization Using OpenStudio and GenOpt Year-by-Year Dynamic Building Energy Assessment with Future Climate Projections Capturing Extremes and Fluctuations Digital Twins for Building Energy Modeling: Balancing Level of Detail, Data Resolution, and Model Accuracy Towards Open-Source Simulation Models for Flexible and Self-Sufficient Energy Hubs Sun and Stone in the Windy City: New Estimates of Direct Solar Heating Potential in Greater Chicago A Comprehensive Review of Meta-Learning Applications in Building Domain Adding Timeseries Acceptance Criteria to ASHRAE Standard 140 AI-Based Metric for Building and Grid Reliability Assessment via Input Propagation and Stress Testing Co-design Optimal Sizing and Control Framework to Balance Cost and Resilience Developing a New Set of Prototypical Models for Office Buildings in California Development of Residential Archetypes to Predict Indoor Temperatures of Vulnerable Homes Evaluating the Impact of Indoor Hydroponic Systems on Students’ Well-being in High School Classrooms Integration and Implementation Verification of Air-to-Water Heat Pump Models for California’s Title 24 Compliance Software An Environmental Framework For Optimizing Urban Design Parameters of New Districts Material-Aware Urban Energy Modeling from Street-View Façade Recognition |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Demo 5: Ladybug Tools' Pollination Location: Lake Bemidji |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Debate: AI and BEM Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz This debate asks two teams of industry leaders to argue for or against the proposition that artificial intelligence is radically changing the skillset that building energy modeling professionals need to survive in the workplace This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. In The Age Of AI, the Most Important Skills for a Building Energy Modelling (BEM) Consultant Are No Longer ‘Model-Building’ Skills, but ‘Model-Governance’ Skills: Data Literacy, Quality Assurance, and Professional Judgement. |
Presentation Session 7: Data Centers: Design, Modeling, and Operational Performance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Mathew Duffy Sponsored by Arup This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Practical CFD Applications for Data Center Design: Why, When, and How It’s Done 4:15pm - 4:30pm In the Center of the Data Boom: The Role of Building Energy Modeling 4:30pm - 4:45pm Wait...When Did Data Centers Turn Into A Dynamic Energy Modeling Problem? 4:45pm - 5:00pm Bridging Time Scales: Transient CFD Strategies for Data Center Cooling Systems |
Presentation Session 8: Residential Buildings: What Works, What Doesn’t Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Building Performance in Small Residential: Practice and Limitations 4:15pm - 4:30pm DARA: A Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Early-Stage Small-Scale Residential Design Decisions 4:30pm - 4:45pm Parametric Estimations of Energy Use Through Interpolation 4:45pm - 4:52pm Development of New Occupancy Schedules and Occupant-Centric Control Strategy for Residential Buildings 4:52pm - 5:00pm Optimization and Prediction of the performance of Spatial Configuration in a Housing Created Under Permitted Development Rights |
Seminar 11: You Don’t Design Net Zero: You Operate It Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Huawei Yu Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy. This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. You Don’t Design Net Zero: You Operate It |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Student Networking Reception Location: Boundary Waters CD Join us for an evening of networking, drinks, and light bites! This is a great chance to connect with future professionals in a relaxed setting. Each attendee will receive a complimentary drink ticket. Finger food will be provided. If you are a SimBuild sponsor, please check the passes included in the sponsorship level. |
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| 6:00pm - 8:30pm |
IBPSA Mixa: Minneapolis Skyway Scavenger Hunt and Networking Dinner Location: Hyatt Regency Lobby All SimBuild attendees are invited to participate in an optional, no-cost, and highly engaging Skyway Scavenger Hunt! This is a fantastic opportunity to stretch your legs, connect with others, and explore the unique features of downtown Minneapolis in a fun and interactive way. You can work alone or in teams; it’s a low-stress activity. The hunt will end in a casual group dinner (at your own expense), so skip the hunt and go directly there around 8:30 PM, or be the first to arrive after you’ve completed all the challenges. |
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