The 2023 ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference in Austin, Texas, highlighted a holistic approach to building design, focusing on embodied carbon, operational energy, and occupant comfort for sustainability.
Embodied Carbon and Operational Energy were the focus of the 2023 ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference held in Austin, Texas.
The theme of the conference “Holistic Building Analysis: Linking Operational Energy, Embodied Carbon and Comfort” centered on a comprehensive approach of evaluating and designing buildings.
“This year’s conference emphasized the importance of considering not only a building’s energy consumption during operation, but also its carbon footprint throughout its lifecycle, while keeping occupant comfort and well-being in mind,” said John Bynum, Conference Chair. “This theme challenged building professionals to rethink traditional building practices and adopt integrated strategies to create more sustainable and livable buildings.”
The two-and-a-half-day conference drawing 240 building industry professionals, included keynotes, paper sessions, seminars, vendor demonstrations, panel discussions and debates from more than 90 presenters.
Keynote sessions featured presentations from Jason DeGraw (Extreme Events and the Role of Modeling in a Resilient Future), Duncan Cox (Whole Life Carbon, is This the Right Approach?) and Alejandra Menchaca (Early Design: The Greatest Opportunity to Influence Performance).
In conjunction with the conference, the 2023 LowDown Showdown modeling team competition was held where integrated teams of architects, engineers, designers and energy modelers worked together to create outstanding designs that solve real-world building efficiency challenges. This year’s competition asked teams to envision a new creative reuse of the Houston Astrodome to provide needed urban amenities and to do so within the constraints of reduced fossil fuel use and reduced carbon emissions.
For the preceding year, the conference will be rebranded as the 2024 ASHRAE Conference For Integrated Design, Construction & Operations, June 24-26, 2024 in Indianapolis, Ind. The conference will be hosted in conjunction with the 2034 ASHRAE Annual Conference.
For more information, visit ashrae.org/cidco24.
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