Performance Huddle is an annual full-day symposium organized by IBPSA-Houston relating to building performance simulation.

The speakers are building scientists,  architects, engineers involved in practice or academia. It is geared towards students, practicing architects or engineers and experts in the field.

Update: For AIA members, 4.5 CEU available. CEUs also available for USGBC, PE via self reporting.

Venue & Date

Friday, Sep 20th 8:00am- Optional Workshop, 10:00am- main conference registration

Hilton Garden Inn Houston NW American Plaza, 14919 Northwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77040

Free parking available.

Workshop

An optional 2-hour comprehensive workshop will be provided by Sefaira, SketchUp. Hariharan Natarajan and Niraj Poudel will guide you through what they call a “Quick and Easy Daylight Analysis for Architects”. All attendees should have a laptop with them at the conference. They will need to have a basic knowledge of buildings and familiarity with Sketchup. Information for software installation will be forwarded to your registration email. Places are limited, make sure you register on time. Contact Mili Kyropoulou for more details

The workshop will cover: 

1. The Basics of Daylight – concepts of illumination, luminance and terms/units

2. Shadow Studies in Sketchup

3. Daylight Availability in Sefaira

4. Spot checks in Velux Daylight Visualizer

5. Daylight Rendering Studies in VRay

Schedule

Time	Topic	Speaker/Affiliation
Workshop 8:00-10:00	Quick and Easy Daylight Analysis for Architects	Hariharan Natarajan, Niraj Poudel -Sefaira
10:00-10:30	Registration for Conference/Coffee Break
10:30-11:15	Design Informed by Performance	Luke Leung -SOM
11:15-11:30	Traveling without Moving	Heath May -HKS
11:30-11:45	Virtual Reality & Lighting Simulations: New Gensler Houston office	Jared Gunlock -G2LD & Angela Palmer -Gensler
12:00-13:00	Lunch (inc. 15 min Demo by EDSL TAS)
13:00-13:45	Ideas are not Black and White: Attitudes for Successful Climate-Responsive Design	Erik Olsen -Transsolar KlimaEngineering
13:45-14:00	Occupancy Simulation	Kevin Giuseppetti -Kirksey
14:00-14:15	Energy Modelling: Expectation vs. Reality	Eric Granhaug -Noresco
14:30-15:15	Coffee Break (inc. 15 min Demo by IES VE)
15:15-16:00	Engineering Instinct and Analytics: An Unfinished Journey in Climate Zone 2B	Emir Pekdemir & David Bersohn -BuroHappold
16:00-16:15	Effects of Indoor Environmental Parameters Related to Building HVAC Systems on Patients’ Medical Outcome: A Review of Scientific Research on Hospital Buildings	Amreen Shajahan -Texas A&M
16:15-16:30	Enhancement of “Effective” Thermal Resistance of Building Insulation Using Phase Change	Weihuan Zhao -University of North Texas
16:45-17:00	Closing remarks

For more info on speakers and their topic visit this Page

Registration

		Conference only		Conference + Workshop
	End Date	student	Professional	Student	Professional
Early Bird	Sep 5th	$15	$35	$25	$55
Regular	Sep 18th	$30	$50	$45	$80
On site registration	Sep 20th	$50	$75	–	–

Lunch is included in the registration fees.