Conference Agenda
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Location: Lake Minnetonka Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 4th floor |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
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 |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
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 |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
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 |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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 |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
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 |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
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 |