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Dr. Yan Chen from Purdue University gave a seminar titled "Inverse Design of Indoor Environment by CFD-based Optimal Methods" at CU boulder on October 9th. Dr. Chen, who was Dr. Zuo's advisor at Purdue University, discussed using an inverse design approach for enclosed environments with different methods to model the...

Ph.D. student Jes Stershic received a scholarship to attend the Energy Service Coalition’s 8th Annual Market Transformation Conference, in Denver, CO, held August 21-23, 2019. According to Jes, "The Energy Service Coalition was a unique opportunity to meet and discuss guaranteed energy savings performance contracting (GESPC) with people from all...

Professor Rajan Rawal from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Building Science and Energy at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India gave a seminar on September 27, hosted by Prof. Wangda Zuo at CU Boulder. His talk on bringing thermal comfort in buildings to all, while improving building environmental and energy...

The 2019 Building Simulation conference hosted by the International Building Performance Simulation Association was held in Rome, September 2-4. Four presentations were delivered by members of the group: Enhancing the Implementation of a First-order Equivalent Thermal Parameter Model to Enable Accurate and Robust Building Thermal Response Prediction by Ph.D. student...

Dr. Zuo and Ph.D. student Katy Hinkelman attended the IBPSA Project 1 4th Expert Meeting in Rome, Italy on August 31 and September 1, 2019. The meeting covered ongoing work for the tasks related to project 1, inlcuding discussions and a hands-on training session. More information about this meeting can...

The 2019 Intelligent Building Operations Workshop was held in Boulder, August 7-9. Two presentations were given by members of the SBS lab: Large-scale Building Performance Simulations for Commercial Building Energy Standards by Ph.D. candidate Yunyang Ye, and A Modeling Framework to Evaluate Energy, Transportation, and Communication Interdependence in Smart and...

The 2nd American Modelica Conference will be hosted by our SBS Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder during March 23-25, 2020. Dr. Zuo and our Ph.D. students Katy and Jes are serving on the local organizaiton committee. For more information on the conference, see https://www.modelica.org/events/modelica2020Americas .

The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) has offered Katy $1,000 + $1,500 for travel expenses to attend their Project 1 meeting and Building Simulation conference in Rome, Italy during September 2-4, 2019. Congratulations, Katy!

Dr. Zuo served as the Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 7.4: Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings from 7/1/2017 to 6/30/2019. Now, he is retired from this position and will begin his term as the Chair of TC 4.10: Indoor Environmental Modeling. Congratulations to Dr. Zuo!

The 2019 ASHRAE Annual Conference took place from June 22-26 in Kansas City. Three PhD students from our group presented their work. Their presentation titles are: Yangyang Fu: Modeling the Transient Event of Data Center Cooling during the Power Outage; Yunyang Ye: Methodology to Evaluate Sensitive Levels of Inputs for...