ibpsaNEWS Apr 2012 volume 22 number 1 www.ibpsa.org GLOBAL COMMUNITY NEWS from IBPSA Canada, Chile, Egypt, England, Germany, Nordic and USA+England (jointly) INTERVIEWS with Professor Joe Clarke, one of IBPSA’s first Fellows, and the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Young Contributor Award, Kristina Orehounig PUBLICATIONS two new books and a Virtual Special Issue of JBPS The newsletter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association ISSN 1993-8586 Contents President’s message 3 BS2011 5 Notes from BS2011 5 And the winners are ... 9 Journal of Building Performance Simulation news 10 Interview with Joe Clarke 13 Book announcements 16 Interview with Kristina Orehounig 18 Forthcoming events 20 Calendar 20 eSim 2012: IBPSA Canada’s 7th biennial conference 21 Healthy Buildings 2012 22 SimBuild 2012: IBSPA USA’s 5th biennial conference 23 BSO12: First IBPSA England conference on Building Simulation & Optimization 24 ASim 2012: IBPSA-China, IBPSA-Japan and IBPSA-Korea joint conference 25 CLIMA 2013: 11th REHVA World Congress 26 News from IBPSA affiliates 27 IBPSA-Canada 27 IBPSA-Chile 29 IBPSA-Egypt 29 IBPSA-England 32 IBPSA-Germany 33 IBPSA-Nordic 33 IBPSA-USA and IBPSA-England 34 IBPSA Announcements 36 Building Simulation 2015: Call for Proposals 36 2011 IBPSA Fellows 38 IBPSA Fellow nominations due on 1 June 40 About IBPSA 41 Affiliates 41 Committee chairs & contacts 42 ibpsaNEWS 2 volume 22 number 1 President’s message President’s message Dear IBPSA colleagues and friends, I think those of you who made the trip to Sydney last November will agree that The International Building Building Simulation 2011 was a huge success. By any measure — be it number of Performance Simulation Association exists to advance and delegates, papers, or countries represented — the 12th conference of IBPSA was the promote the science of building largest ever gathering of building simulation researchers and practitioners. On behalf performance simulation in order to improve the design, construction, of IBPSA I would like to extend once again a huge thank you to IBPSA-Australasia, operation and maintenance of new the conference organizing and scientific committees, as well as IBPSA’s conference and existing buildings worldwide. committee for all their efforts to make this event such a success. President Ian Beausoleil-Morrison Carleton University, Canada Although the Sydney conference is still fresh in our minds, work is already underway [email protected] to organize Building Simulation 2013, which will be hosted by IBPSA-France in Vice-President Chambéry; expect to see the call for abstracts within the next few months. It takes Charles Barnaby many years to plan and execute a successful conference, which is why this newsletter Wrightsoft Corporation, USA [email protected] includes a call for proposals for hosting Building Simulation 2015; interested affiliates Secretary and organizations are encouraged to assemble their bids in the near future. Lori McElroy Architecture & Design Scotland, UK While we are on the topic of conferences, you should be aware that many of IBPSA’s [email protected] regional affiliates organize excellent events that are open to all with an interest in Treasurer Michael Wetter building performance simulation. Although these are smaller than the biennial Lawrence Berkeley National international conferences, they tend to be focused, present high-quality emerging Laboratory, USA work, and offer excellent networking opportunities. I encourage you to attend one [email protected] of more of the conferences that will be held in the coming months, such as BauSIM Director-at-Large Drury Crawley (Germany), SimBuild (USA), Building Simulation and Optimization (UK), and eSim Bentley Systems, Inc., USA (Canada). [email protected] Director-at-Large IBPSA continues to expand the organization in regions with both mature and emerging Michel Bernier Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, building performance simulation expertise and infrastructure. Five new affiliates Canada — IBPSA-Italy, IBPSA-Nordic, IBPSA-Chile, IBPSA-Ireland, and IBPSA-Egypt — have [email protected] been approved during the past eight months. IBPSA’s 26 affiliates now represent more Director-at-Large than 4 200 people in 35 countries, and these numbers will grow in the near future. Jonathan Wright Loughborough University, UK [email protected] IBPSA’s official journal — the Journal of Building Performance Simulation (JBPS) Director-at-Large — continues to flourish. The JBPS is now in its fifth year of publication and recently Christoph van Treeck received the very positive news that it has been included in Thomson Reuter’s Fraunhofer-Institute for Building Physics, Germany databases, including the Science Citation Index (SCI). As for many authors inclusion [email protected] in the SCI and the associated Impact Factor are important considerations, it is expected Immediate Past President that this news will bring forth greater development in the JBPS. Even before this news Jan Hensen was received, the number of issues and pages per year were expanded to accommodate Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands the amount of high-quality material that makes it through the journal’s rigorous peer- [email protected] review process. ibpsaNEWS 3 volume 22 number 1 President’s message Finally, I would like to bring your attention to an important initiative to recognize members who have attained distinction in the field of building performance simulation. The first cohort of IBPSA Fellows was honoured at the conference in Sydney and the organization is now seeking nominations for future Fellows, as detailed in this newsletter. I look forward to seeing you at one of the upcoming building simulation conferences. Happy simulating to all. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison ibpsaNEWS 4 volume 22 number 1 Building Simulation 2011 Notes from BS2011 Building Simulation 2011: Driving Better Design Through Simulation Christina J Hopfe and Veronica Soebarto with photographs from Phil Wilkinson and Cathy Bannister The 12th International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Conference and Exhibition was successfully held at the Novotel Sydney, Brighton Beach Hotel, from November 14-16 2011. Situated directly opposite the beach the venue had spectacular views across Botany Bay and several delegates were seen indulging in a pre-conference swim each morning. The conference was co-hosted by IBPSA Australasia and the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air-conditioning and Heating (AIRAH), Australia’s professional body for the HVAC industry. This collaboration provided an excellent forum for exchange of ideas and Opening reception á and didgeridoo player Colin McCormack during the information between simulation researchers, designers of systems and applications, mechanical reception â and electrical engineers, and government legislators responsible for designing and enacting building codes. An opening reception was held at the Hotel on 13 November whilst on the final evening (16th November) the conference delegates were invited on board Starship Sydney, Australia’s largest and most contemporary glass cruise boat, giving delegates stunning panoramic views of Sydney harbour. The cruise ended spectacularly with an unexpected — and even by co-hosts and organizer of the conference unplanned — fireworks display. The theme of the BS2011 Conference was Driving Better Design Through Simulation. In total, 450 delegates from 36 countries attended the conference and papers were presented in seven parallel sessions with one poster session per day over the three days. All papers submitted to BS2011 were double blind-reviewed. Unlike previous BS conferences, papers that were conditionally accepted were further re-reviewed/assessed in order to ensure that the standard of the final submissions was of a very high quality. Also, the format of the Conference opening in the Brighton paper presentation (oral or poster) was left to the author’s discretion instead of being decided Beach Hotel á and opening speech by by the Scientific Committee as had been the case of previous BS conferences. This means that IBPSA Australasia President and Chair the presentation format was not an indicator of the quality of the paper. of BS2011, Paul Bannisterâ In the end, there were 363 research papers and 29 application papers that were accepted for presentation at the conference, thus the total number of papers included in the Conference Proceedings is 392. A summary is presented in Figure 1, overleaf. Figure 2, also overleaf, shows the breakdown of the final papers based on the different paper topics in BS 2011. It can be seen that there were more papers in “new advances in building ibpsaNEWS 5 volume 22 number 1 Building Simulation 2011 Figure 1: Country of origin of authors of accepted full papers at BS 2011 Figure 2: Breakdown of final papers by topic at BS 2011 ibpsaNEWS 6 volume 22 number 1 Building Simulation 2011 performance simulation including BIM”, and in “application of building performance simulation in design processes” as well as case study papers in BS2011, but fewer papers addressing categories such as building services, controls, and building physics compared to previous years. The conference was opened with a keynote speech by John Mitchell under the title “BIM and Building Simulation”. This focused on appreciating the impact of IT on the whole construction industry both locally and globally, while articulating and implementing the business process changes organisations