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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Location: Lake Bemidji Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 4th floor |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
Workshop 4: Mastering Passive Design with IESVE Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Mathew Duffy Advance registration required. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Demo 3: Trane Location: Lake Bemidji |
| 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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Demo 5: Ladybug Tools' Pollination Location: Lake Bemidji |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |