The first IBPSA England conference was held in Loughborough from September 2012. It was IBPSA-England’s first national conference, organised in association with the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and hosted by Loughborough University.

 

The conference had three broad themes:

1. New performance models and simulation methods

2. Procedures for optimising design and operation

3. Real-world case studies

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139 abstracts had been received, with 56 papers published in the end. 46% of these were submitted from outside the UK. The attendance for a local conference and the first IBPSA-England was very impressive as well: in total, more than 100 delegates from 17 countries, with 42% attending from outside the UK for the two days.

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Two keynote speakers from the industry were invited, Judit Kimplan from AEDAS on day one and Giulio Antonutto from Arup in London on the second day; both showing their efforts in integrating optimization in daily projects. In the case of the second keynote speaker, the applied use of optimisation dated back to 2000!