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Date: Wednesday, 10/Dec/2025
8:00am - 8:30am	Light Continental Breakfast Location: Lobby 2
8:00am - 5:00pm	Speakers Lounge Location: Coastal Room
8:30am - 10:00am	CPS 19: Decarbonization (Principles) Location: Beach & Gulf Banquet 200 Session Chair: Mehdi Ghoabdi, National Research Council Canada
	Embodied Carbon Reduction in Steel-Framed Buildings with Spray Applied Fire-Resistive Materials Ahoo Malekafzali, Ann Jirras, Andreanna Tzortzis, Remi Goulet, Lucas Hamilton saint-gobain, United States of America The Circular Home: Energy and Moisture Performance of a Mass Timber, Biogenic, Reusable Residential Building Patricia Gunderson, Yun Joon Jung, Kieren McCord, Tyler Pilet, Edward Louie, Chrissi Antonopoulos Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
8:30am - 10:00am	CPS 20: Hygrothermal Analysis of Traditional and Mass Timber Roof Assemblies (Practices) Location: Bay Theather 100 Session Chair: Achilles Karagiozis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
	Correlating Hygrothermal Modeling to Real-World Roof Design Andrea Wagner Watts¹, Jui-Hsiang Hung², Boubacar Issoufou Anaroua² ¹GAF \| Siplast; ²GAF Materials LLC Optimizing Parameters To Make Accurate Hygrothermal Calculations In Ventilated Roofs Johan Öberg¹, S. Olof Mundt Petersen^2,3, Petter Wallentén² ¹Polygon Sverige AB, Sweden; ²Lund University; ³Swedish Federation of Wood and Furniture Industry Hygrothermal Performance of CLT External Walls with Wood-Fibre-Based ETICS: Field Measurements and Simulation Validation Villu Kukk, Targo Kalamees Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia Understanding the Risk of Entrapped Moisture in Mass Timber Roof and Floor Assemblies and the Use of Calibrated Hygrothermal Models to Assess Drying Remediations from Construction Wetting Camille Roy, Graham Finch, Michael Wilkinson RDH Building Science, Canada
8:30am - 10:00am	Registration Location: Lobby 2
10:00am - 10:30am	AM Break (Pre-function) Location: Lobby 2
10:30am - 12:00pm	CPS 21: Hygrothermal Performance (Principles) Location: Beach & Gulf Banquet 200 Session Chair: Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya, University of Victoria
	Thermal Performance of Spandrel Assemblies in Glazed Wall Systems: Simulation Differences and Results Ivan Lee¹, Stephane Hoffman¹, Dan Haaland², Cheryl Saldanha³ ¹Stantec, Canada; ²RDH Building Science; ³Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Experimental Evaluation of the Thermal and Hygrothermal Performance of a Double Wythe Brick Energy Retrofit Christopher Baldwin¹, Krista Rowan², Thomas Dalkowski¹, Daniel H. Chung³, Cynthia A. Cruickshank¹, Daniele Malomo⁴ ¹Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; ³John H. Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; ⁴Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Thermal Performance of Spandrel Assemblies in Glazed Wall Systems Dan Haaland¹, Ivan Lee², Cheryl Saldanha³ ¹RDH Building Science; ²Stantec; ³Simpson Gumpertz and Heger
10:30am - 12:00pm	CPS 22: Improving Building Performance with Window Upgrades (Practices) Location: Bay Theather 100 Session Chair: Harri Mikael Salonvaara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	A Second Take on Windows: Advancing Secondary Windows for Commercial Buildings Jason LaFleur¹, Kaushik Biswas¹, Charlie D. Curcija², Rui Zhang¹, Simon Pallin³, Alex Cicelsky¹ ¹GTI Energy, United States of America; ²Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America; ³Frontier Energy, United States of America Advancing Building Performance: Field Results of Thin-Glass Triple-Pane Window Demonstrations Robert Grant Hart, Tammie Yu Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America Are Deep Energy Retrofits in Commercial Buildings Including Window Upgrades? Katherine Cort¹, Hevar Palani², Jamie Kono¹, Travis Stanislaus¹, Mahabir Bhandari², Robert Hart³ ¹Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; ²Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America; ³Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America Multivariate Analysis of PCM Glazing Effects on Office Building HVAC Energy Performance in Arid Climates Daniel Uribe^1,2, Marco Perino⁴, Sergio Vera^1,2,3 ¹School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile; ²Center for Sustainble Urban Development (CEDEUS); ³UC Energy Research Center; ⁴Energy Department (DENERG), Politecnico di Torino
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: Ruby's Dining Room
1:30pm - 3:00pm	CPS 23: Hygrothermal Modelling (Principles) Location: Beach & Gulf Banquet 200 Session Chair: Simo Ilomets, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
	Condensation Potential of R8 Buried Ducts in Vented and Unvented Attics Located in Hot and Humid Climate Zones: Test Facility Study Jeffrey K. Sonne FSEC, United States of America Hygrothermal Behavior of Cross-laminated Timber Walls: A Comparative Study of 1D and 2D Water Leakage Modeling Sina Akhavan Shams¹, Himanshu Sharma¹, Lin Wang², Hua Ge¹, Jieying Wang³ ¹Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; ²Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada; ³FPInnovations, Vancouver, Canada Hygrothermal Simulation - A New Modelling Approach for 3D Air Gaps between Permeable and Solid Materials Andreas Sarkany, Florian Schnabel, Manfred Grüner, Csilla Szakács, Thomas Bednar TU Wien, Austria
1:30pm - 3:00pm	CPS 24: Window Advancements (Residential) Location: Bay Theather 100 Session Chair: Aaron Grin, DuPont Performance Building Solutions
	Quantifying Noise Reduction From Envelope Retrofits Using Publicly-Available Data Sources Kieren H. McCord¹, Samuel I. Rosenberg¹, Ralph T. Muehleisen², Max Martell¹, Dana Vesty¹, Chrissi A. Antonopoulos¹ ¹Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; ²Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America Understanding The Photo-Optics' Spatial And Temporal Changes Of A Solar Spectrum Light Beam Through Single Glazing, As Detected By A Full Spectrum Camera Damilola Onatayo¹, Rahul Aggarwal¹, Ravi Srinivasan¹, Bipin Shah², Ross McCluney³, Aladdin Alwisy¹, Jennifer Bridge¹, Nancy Clark¹ ¹University of Florida; ²Winbuild Inc; ³Sunpine US Performance Study on a Novel Dynamic Complex Window for Ultra-low-energy Buildings Yi Wang¹, Huiyan Tang¹, Zhengrong Li¹, Qun Zhao² ¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China; ²College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China
3:00pm - 3:30pm	PM Break (Pre-function) Location: Lobby 2
3:30pm - 5:00pm	CPS 25: Fenestration System (Principles) Location: Beach & Gulf Banquet 200 Session Chair: Meghan Kathleen Sylvia, Frontier Energy
	ASHRAE RP1926: Updating Performance Values in the Handbook of Fundamentals to Reflect Fenestration Industry Advancements Alex McGowan, Emilie Huot, Hannah Cameron WSP Canada inc., Canada Importance of Durability Assessment of Emerging Energy Efficient Window Alliston Watts¹, Robert Tenent¹, Bipin Shah² ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); ²WinBuild Inc. Investigating The Service Life Of High-performance Glazing Systems Alexander Hayes, Marzieh Riahinezhad, Itzel Lopez-Carreon, Peter Collins, Travis Moore, Elnaz Esmizadeh National Research Council of Canada, Canada Transforming Windows from Energy Liabilities to Zero-Energy Assets: Next-Generation Solutions for Buildings Robert Grant Hart, Lili Yu Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America
3:30pm - 5:00pm	CPS 26: Embodied Energy of Materials (Residential) Location: Bay Theather 100 Session Chair: Tiffany Coppock, Owens Corning
	Hygrothermal Performance of Bio-Based Materials in Residential Building Wall Envelope Systems Hevar Palani, Kuma Sumathipala, Andre Desjarlais Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA Moisture Durability and Thermal Performance of Retrofitted Wall Systems with Biobased Cladding and Insulation Materials: An Environmental Chamber Study Emishaw Iffa, Andre Desjarlais, Mikael Salonvaara, mengjia Tang Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA How Material and Design Choices Can Affect The Embodied Carbon Of Residential Buildings Mehdi Ghoabdi, Michal Bartko, Thomas Park, Elisa Antunes National Research Council Canada, Canada

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December 8-11, 2025

Clearwater Beach, Florida

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