bSI invites industry professionals (designers, owners/operators, consultants, academia, regulators, software vendors and Green Building Certification Institutions) with expertise and vested interest in the domain of Building Energy Modelling (BEM) to attend an orientation session about the bSI BEM report and a call for participants to be on the Expert Panel to review the documentation. There will be two instances of the webinar to accommodate our colleagues across the globe, with registration details shown below for different time zones.

At the webinar, you will receive information about the project and how you may participate as an Expert Panel delegate to review the report and its findings before it is voted on by the buildingSMART International Standards Committee.

Background

Over the last two and a half years, the issue of addressing building energy modeling (BEM) utilizing buildingSMART principals and standards has been studied and documented with a ‘Master IDM’. It is an overview of how BEM may be applied to projects over their entire lifecycle, from conception to operations, and the many issues and challenges related to methods, processes, and technologies for creating, exchanging, and utilizing data among a diverse array of project stakeholders, software, and requirements.

The goal is to have the report vetted by a wide variety of industry stakeholders with domain expertise and responsibility from across the world. Their charge is to review the report, provide constructive feedback on any necessary revisions or additions, and come to a consensus on the results and recommendations for next steps in developing specific guidelines and data exchanges.

In following the bSI Process, after the Expert Panel review, the bSI standards governance committees will review, endorse, comment and then vote on enshrining the report as part of the bSI Standards Library. Learn more about the bSI Process at the link below.

Please use the links below to register for the webinar of your choice.

5:00 pm 13th Jan 2021 (PST) eg Los Ang.

9:00 am 14th Jan 2021 (CST) eg Beijing

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Online using Zoom

3:00 pm 14th Jan 2021 (CET) eg Berlin

7:30 pm 14th Jan 2021 (IST) eg Delhi

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Online using Zoom

What you can do to prepare for the webinar

While this webinar is open to all those interested in the BEM topic, the Expert Panel will need to be limited in size. It is preferred to have 2 or 3 representatives from each buildingSMART chapter, with a variety of experiences, to serve on the panel. However, each representative may coordinate the review and feedback of the report with a larger group of experts in their respective chapters/regions or domains. At the webinar and immediately after, we would like to gather the names of nominees to the Expert Panel and coordinate its composition before the first meeting in late-January 2021. The general public will be allowed to review and comment on the report through registration and use of the buildingSMART Forums. These general comments will be fed into the Expert Panel review process for consideration.

Any Questions?

Should you have any further questions, please send them to Jeffrey Ouellette and Mirbek Bekboliev using the email addresses below.

jeffrey.ouellette@buildingsmart.org

mirbek.bekboliev@buildingsmart.de

Further Information?

You may find the information at the links below helpful.

Updates from bSI Virtual Summit May 2020: https://vimeo.com/419692906#t=3095s

Latest Update from bSI Virtual Summit October 2020: https://vimeo.com/483114055

Thank You on behalf of bSI

Jeffrey Ouellette, Project Coordinator

Mirbek Bekboliev, Building Room Steering Committee member and Project Advisor