IBPSA-England

News from IBPSA affiliates

IBPSA affiliates are asked to submit a report to the IBPSA Board each year to keep Board members informed about their activities and membership. These are too detailed to include in ibpsaNEWS, so affiliates have been asked to make their latest annual report available through their web sites, and this section includes only selected, recent news. Other news from affiliates may be available from their websites; the URLs for these are available on the IBPSA Central web site at www.ibpsa.org/?page_id=29.

IBPSA-England

Building Simulation and Optimization (Virtual) Conference 2020

IBPSA-England’s fifth Building Simulation and Optimization conference, hosted by the Building Energy Research Group at Loughborough University and sponsored by DesignBuilder, took place virtually on 21 and 22 September 2020. This conference provided a forum for debating and addressing the challenges that the Building Simulation and Optimization community are currently facing by exploring the following topics:

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Urban building energy modelling Building Energy flexibility Design & Retrofit optimization Data-driven modelling Occupant behaviour modelling Shading & Overheating Analysis Uncertainty Quantification & Analysis Experimental Performance Characterisation Building Energy Systems Modelling & Simulation Advanced Modelling Techniques Parametric Design

The conference, chaired by Dr Bianca Howard and scientific chairs Dr Argyris Oraiopoulos and Dr Eleonora Brembilla, was well attended by more than 100 delegates from 18 countries across the world. A total of 53 contributions were presented during the conference, in a novel, online format that focused on bringing out the key insights from the latest research in the field, by setting the discussion around the papers as the primary objective, rather than the presentation itself.