Conference Agenda
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| Location: Palm (Lobby Level) |
| Date: Sunday, 07/Dec/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 3:00pm | Workshop 2- Demonstrations and Simulations Location: Palm (Lobby Level) |
| Date: Monday, 08/Dec/2025 | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | CPS 3:Building Envelopes (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Michael Lubliner, ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Modeling and Economics of Select Envelope and HVAC Improvements in Manufactured Housing FSEC, University of Central Florida An Experimental and CFD Study of Vertically-Mounted Ventilated Wooden Claddings 1Creaform-Ametek; 2Veridis Solutions inc. Scalable Thermal and Resilience Exterior Envelope Strategies for the Manufactured Housing Sector: Results from a year of simulated field testing 1Electric Power Research Institute, United States of America; 2Systems Building Research Alliance, United States of America |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | CPS 6: Building Envelopes II (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Robert De Vries, Nu Wool Co. Inc. |
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Hygrothermal Performance of residential Building’s Roofs with Reflective Insulation 1Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu, Jubail Industrial City 31961, Saudi Arabia; 2École de Technologie Supérieure_ETS Montreal, Canada Behind The Walls: Unlocking Occupant Mindsets And Hidden Benefits Of Building Envelope Retrofits 1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | CPS 9: Building Resilience (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Theresa Weston, The Holt Weston Consultancy |
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Assessing Residential Deep Energy Retrofit Performance Based on Resilience to Future Weather Conditions 1Carleton University; 2University of Toronto; 3Hitotsubashi University Water Loads in interstices evaluated by Neutron Imaging and effects on Drying Dynamics of Building Assemblies Post-flooding 1Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland Evaluating the Impact of Hydrostatic Pressure on Water Uptake towards Improving Flood Resilience Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/Dec/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am | CPS 12: Installation Challenges (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Keith P. Nelson, DuPont |
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A Simple Panel System to Overcome Interface Challenges for Retrofits 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory; 2IBACOS; 3University of California Berkeley Analyzing Contractor Data To Improve Installation And Maintenance Standards In The HVAC Industry Frontier Energy, United States of America Innovative Structural Insulation Sheathing: Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Buildability in Residential Construction Owens Corning, United States of America |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | CPS 14: Case studies (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Rui Zhang, GTI Energy |
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Comparison of Weatherization Approaches at Community-Scale: Weatherization vs Optimal Retrofit in Manufactured Home Parks Colorado School of Mines, United States of America Energy retrofit of modern heritage architecture: The case study of Villa Rossi in Ivrea 1Politecnico di Torino - Department of Energy, Italy; 2G Studio Architects Evaluation Of An Off-Grid Passive House In Northern Ontario With Solar PV And Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Carleton University (CABER), Canada |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | CPS 16: Weather and Site Effects (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Chrissi Antonopoulos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Effects Of Trees On The Cooling Of Residential Neighborhoods In Various Climates 1Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2ETH Zürich, Switzerland Impact of High-Rise Buildings on Wind Driven Rain, Wind and Thermal Comfort 1ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | CPS 18: Advancements in modeling and measurements (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Adam Broderick |
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New Tool for Evaluation of Roof Assemblies using Reflective Technology 1Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia; 2R&D Services, Inc., Watertown, TN, USA Methodology For Estimating Building Resistance And Capacitance Values In-Situ Using Exterior Measurements and Meteorological Data Concordia University, Canada Zero-Shot Building Façade Feature Extraction Using the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to Support Simplified Urban Energy Modeling 1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada; 2Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 1200 Montreal Rd, Ottawa, ON K1K 2E1, Canada |
| Date: Wednesday, 10/Dec/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am | CPS 20: Hygrothermal Analysis of Traditional and Mass Timber Roof Assemblies (Practices) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Achilles Karagiozis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
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Correlating Hygrothermal Modeling to Real-World Roof Design 1GAF | Siplast; 2GAF Materials LLC Optimizing Parameters To Make Accurate Hygrothermal Calculations In Ventilated Roofs 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 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 RDH Building Science, Canada |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | CPS 22: Improving Building Performance with Window Upgrades (Practices) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Harri Mikael Salonvaara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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A Second Take on Windows: Advancing Secondary Windows for Commercial Buildings 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 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America Are Deep Energy Retrofits in Commercial Buildings Including Window Upgrades? 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 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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | CPS 24: Window Advancements (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Adam Broderick |
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Quantifying Noise Reduction From Envelope Retrofits Using Publicly-Available Data Sources 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 1University of Florida; 2Winbuild Inc; 3Sunpine US Performance Study on a Novel Dynamic Complex Window for Ultra-low-energy Buildings 1School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China; 2College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | CPS 26: Embodied Energy of Materials (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Tiffany Coppock, Owens Corning |
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Hygrothermal Performance of Bio-Based Materials in Residential Building Wall Envelope Systems 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 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA How Material and Design Choices Can Affect The Embodied Carbon Of Residential Buildings National Research Council Canada, Canada |
| Date: Thursday, 11/Dec/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am | CPS 28: Attics / Ducts (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Xuaco Pascual, Tamlyn |
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Ducts in Conditioned Space, or Buried Ducts, What’s the Difference? Frontier Energy, United States of America Impacts of Unvented Attic Tightness and Intentional Attic Conditioning Upon R8 Ducts Buried Under Blown Insulation in Hot and Humid Climates FSEC / University of Central Florida, United States of America Lab and Field Observations of Critical Building Design Impacts Upon Moisture In Attics in Hot and Humid Climate Focused On Attic Air, Duct Surface, and Roof Sheathing Moisture Content University of Central Florida / FSEC, United States of America |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | CPS 30: Moisture in Walls (Residential) Location: Palm (Lobby Level) Session Chair: Chrissi Antonopoulos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Impact of the Airspace on the R-Value of a Residential Brick Veneer Wall National Brick Research Center - Clemson University, United States of America Hygrothermal Modeling and Laboratory Tests of Solar-Driven Moisture Diffusion in Wood-Frame Walls with Absorptive Claddings—Impact and Management USDA Forest Products Laboratory, United States of America Field Indoor Air Quality Findings for a Rural Home Park in Colorado Colorado school of mines, United States of America |