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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Agenda Overview |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
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| 8:00am - 12:00pm |
Workshop 1: Pollination Revit Plugin: Reliable Workflow for Exporting Revit Models as Energy Models in a Fraction of Time Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari Advance registration required. |
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| 8:00am - 5:00pm |
Workshop 2: Building Energy Modeling: From Design Practice to Certification (for Design Professionals and BEMP Candidates) Location: Executive Boardroom Chair: Amanda Bogner Advance registration required. This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
Tour 1: Hennepin Energy Recovery Center Location: Hennepin Energy Recovery Center Advance registration required. HERC’s Tour Information Packet includes directions to the HERC facility along with the Visitor Agreement. Each participant needs to bring a signed copy of the Visitor Agreement with them and wear appropriate attire. Please give yourself an extra 10 minutes of travel time as it can be confusing finding the entrance of the facility. |
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| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
Workshop 3: Pollination Revit Plugin: Reliable Workflow for Exporting Revit Models as Energy Models in a Fraction of Time Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari Advance registration required. |
Workshop 4: Mastering Passive Design with IESVE Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Mathew Duffy Advance registration required. |
Workshop 5: 3D Thermal Bridge Modelling for Code Compliance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jelle Langmans Advance registration required. |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Tour 2: T3 Minneapolis Location: T3 Minneapolis Chair: Nathan Kegel Advance registration required. Please meet the tour group in the north lobby by Dario. The tour will last approximately one hour. |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Welcome Reception Location: Perkins & Will Light refreshments will be served, and there will be priceless opportunities to connect with peers before the main conference starts. Perkins & Will is inside the IDS Center. You can walk (10 minutes), take a cab (8 minutes) or public transportation (6 minutes) from the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. |
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| 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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| 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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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
IBPSA-USA Leadership Meet-and-Greet Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Neal Kruis Meet IBPSA-USA board members, chapter leaders, and committee chairs over a light breakfast. Whether you're inspired by SimBuild, hoping to start a chapter in your own city, or just wondering how to stay involved, this informal networking event will help you get to know the leaders of our industry. |
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| 8:30am - 8:45am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Thomas Zakrzewski Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
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| 8:45am - 9:45am |
Plenary 3: Keynote by Rania Labib Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz Dr. Rania Labib is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Artificial Intelligence for High-Performance Buildings Lab at Texas A&M University. With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of architecture, building performance, and emerging technologies, Dr. Labib specializes in building simulations, energy modeling, and the integration of AI methods into the built environment. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Presentation Session 9: California Energy Studies II: Modeling Tools and Workflows Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Elyse Malherek 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. Feature Selection for the Impatient Modeler: An Experiment 10:15am - 10:30am Beyond Static PDFs: Democratizing BEM QA/QC with Interactive Visualization Tools 10:30am - 10:45am From Scorecards to Scalable Simulations: A Flexible Framework for Future-Ready Compliance Building Modeling 10:45am - 11:00am Domestic Hot Water Modeling and Validation for California Single-Family and Low-Rise Multifamily Prototype Models |
Seminar 12: Risk, Retrofit, Reward: A Strategic Game to Navigate Building Performance Standards Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Alexander Mitchell This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Risk, Retrofit, Reward: A Strategic Game to Navigate Building Performance Standards |
Technical Session 10: Grid Interactions and Load Management Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Han Li This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Forecasting space heating flexibility: Comparing Measured Dwelling Cool-Down Rates with Dynamic Thermal Simulation 10:15am - 10:30am Calendars of the City: Deterministic Schedule Libraries to Enhance UBEM Load Duration Forecasts 10:30am - 10:45am Digitalizing Building Control Deployment for Retrofits: A Case Study on Demand-Flexible Control Sequences 10:45am - 11:00am Enhancing EnergyPlus to Model the Time Independent Energy Recovery (TIER) System for Load Management and Code Compliance |
Technical Session 11: Urban-Scale Modeling and Microclimate Simulation Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Alexandra Rempel This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Experience in Motion: Scalable, Sequential Urban Microclimates Simulations for Visual and Thermal Comfort 10:15am - 10:30am Framework for Modeling 3D-Printed Concrete Construction to Assess Energy Efficiency and Backup Power Trade-offs in a Mixed-Use, New Construction Neighborhood Development 10:30am - 10:45am A Systematic Approach for a Typological Analysis of African Residential Building Stock Across Multiple Climates 10:45am - 10:52am Applying Frequency Domain Methods for Calculating Outdoor Surface Temperatures. 10:52am - 11:00am Reduced Order Building Hydronic Models in Ambient Temperature Thermal Energy Networks for Improved Computational Efficiency |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Networking Break sponsored by Arup Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Presentation Session 10: Simulation-Driven Design: Optimization, Controls, and Automation Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Alpha Yacob Arsano This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. A Whole-Building Demonstration of Differentiable Predictive Control with Stochastic Occupant Behavior 11:45am - 12:00pm Automated HVAC Design and Duct Routing for Multi-Family Retrofits using Reality Capture Data 12:00pm - 12:07pm Gas, Electric, Sustainable? 12:07pm - 12:15pm De-Risking High-Performance Laboratory Design in a Rapidly Evolving Energy Code Landscape 12:15pm - 12:22pm Exploring a Julia-based Toolchain for HVAC Innovation: Simulation-based Optimization Case Study of a Dedicated Outdoor Air System with a Desiccant Wheel |
Seminar 13: What’s Next For ASHRAE 90.1 Performance Rating Method (PRM) Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Allen Mei Chair: Neal Kruis This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. What’s Next For ASHRAE 90.1 Performance Rating Method (PRM) |
Technical Session 12: AI and Data-Driven Workflows for Building Energy Modeling Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Nathan Kegel This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Explainable AI and Machine Learning for Transparent Building Energy Benchmarking and Retrofit Decisions 11:45am - 12:00pm Bridging Intent and Iteration: An Open Framework for LLM‑Directed BEM Optimization at Scale 12:00pm - 12:15pm A High Throughput Framework for Large Scale Building Energy Simulation: From Real-Time Alerts to AI-Ready Surrogates 12:15pm - 12:30pm Deep Learning Methods for Building Energy Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings |
Technical Session 13: Advanced Thermal Systems and Envelope Performance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jelle Langmans Chair: Gabriel Flechas This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in an Un-Conditioned Underground Building: Spatiotemporal Variation of Indoor Surface Heat Transfer Coefficient 11:45am - 12:00pm Wet-Bulb Temperature Performance Maps for Chiller-Water Side Economizer Plants: Guiding Multi-Sequence Control Strategies 12:00pm - 12:15pm Experimental Demonstration of a Self-Powered Dynamic Façade Using Thermoelectric–PCM Integration 12:15pm - 12:22pm Improving Thermal Resilience And Energy Efficiency Using Cool Building Envelope Materials 12:22pm - 12:30pm High-Fidelity Building Emulator for Integrated Comfort and Energy Analysis using EnergyPlus and Radiance |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Tour 3: Cordia District Energy System Tour Location: Cordia Energy Minneapolis Chair: Rawad El Kontar Advance registration required. Please wear close-toed shoes; heels are not permitted. |
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