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Session Overview
Location: Palm Theather 100
Date: Monday, 08/Dec/2025
10:30am - 12:00pmCPS 3:Building Envelopes (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Michael Lubliner, ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 

Modeling and Economics of Select Envelope and HVAC Improvements in Manufactured Housing

Rob Vieira, Karen Fenaughty, Dave Chasar, Karthik Panchabikesan

FSEC, University of Central Florida



An Experimental and CFD Study of Vertically-Mounted Ventilated Wooden Claddings

Philippe B. Vincent1, Jean-Michel Dussault2, Louis-Gabriel Maltais2

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

Agatha Kazdan1, Mazen Daher1, Jordan Dentz2, Joy Liao2, Maggie Sheng1, Evan Giarta1

1Electric Power Research Institute, United States of America; 2Systems Building Research Alliance, United States of America

 
1:30pm - 3:00pmCPS 6: Building Envelopes II (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Robert De Vries, Nu Wool Co. Inc.
 

Flat Roof Ventilation: Airflow Field Measurement

Zelalem Abebe, Fitsum Tariku

British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Burnaby, BC, Canada



Hygrothermal Performance of residential Building’s Roofs with Reflective Insulation

Hamed H. Saber1, Wahid Maref2

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

Charlotte Roiger1, Sarah Gonzales Coffin1, Kieren H. McCord1, Núria Casquero-Modrego2, Tracy L. Fuentes1, Chrissi A. Antonopoulos1

1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 
3:30pm - 5:00pmCPS 9: Building Resilience (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Philip Agee, Virginia Tech
 

Assessing Residential Deep Energy Retrofit Performance Based on Resilience to Future Weather Conditions

Myles F. Zagar1, Cynthia A. Cruickshank1, Daniel Chung2, Kareman Yassin3, Maya Papineau1

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

Daniel de Cotret1, Marie-Amélie Boucher1, Dominique Derome1, Gabrielle Limoges1, Antoine Ruel1, Félix Tellier1, Pavel Trtik2, Noakim Vallée1

1Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland



Evaluating the Impact of Hydrostatic Pressure on Water Uptake towards Improving Flood Resilience

Daniel de Cotret, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Dominique Derome, Gabrielle Limoges, Antoine Ruel, Félix Tellier, Noakim Vallée

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

 
Date: Tuesday, 09/Dec/2025
8:30am - 10:00amCPS 12: Installation Challenges (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: William Ranson, DuPont
 

A Simple Panel System to Overcome Interface Challenges for Retrofits

Zoe Kaufman1, David Goldwasser1, Andrew Poerschke2, Marcus Bianchi1, J.D. Laurence-Chasen1, Hilary Egan1, Joy-Marie Parker3, Chioke Harris1, Brian Wolfgang2

1National Renewable Energy Laboratory; 2IBACOS; 3University of California Berkeley



Analyzing Contractor Data To Improve Installation And Maintenance Standards In The HVAC Industry

Meghan Kathleen Sylvia

Frontier Energy, United States of America



Innovative Structural Insulation Sheathing: Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Buildability in Residential Construction

Hai Fu, Xiaomin Guo, Brandon Robinson, Craig Marden, Sandeep Tamrakar

Owens Corning, United States of America

 
10:30am - 12:00pmCPS 14: Case studies (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Kaushik Biswas, GTI Energy
 

Comparison of Weatherization Approaches at Community-Scale: Weatherization vs Optimal Retrofit in Manufactured Home Parks

Karlyle Dais Munz, Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco

Colorado School of Mines, United States of America



Energy retrofit of modern heritage architecture: The case study of Villa Rossi in Ivrea

Stefano Fantucci1, Enrico Giacopelli2

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

Matthew Domsy, Cynthia A. Cruickshank, Roger J. Martin

Carleton University (CABER), Canada

 
1:30pm - 3:00pmCPS 16: Weather and Site Effects (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Chrissi Antonopoulos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
 

Effects Of Trees On The Cooling Of Residential Neighborhoods In Various Climates

Clément Nevers1, Jan Carmeliet2, Aytaç Kubilay2, Dominique Derome1

1Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2ETH Zürich, Switzerland



Impact of High-Rise Buildings on Wind Driven Rain, Wind and Thermal Comfort

Aytac Kubilay1, Andreas Rubin1, Dominique Derome2, Jan Carmeliet1

1ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

 
3:30pm - 5:00pmCPS 18: Advancements in modeling and measurements (Residential)
Location: Palm Theather 100
Session Chair: Valentina Woodcraft, DuPont de Nemours
 

New Tool for Evaluation of Roof Assemblies using Reflective Technology

Hamed Saber1, David W. Yarbrough2

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

Francois Tardy

Concordia University, Canada



Zero-Shot Building Façade Feature Extraction Using the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to Support Simplified Urban Energy Modeling

Farzad Mostafazadeh1,2, Yasaman Dadras1,2, Miroslava Kavgic1, Mehdi Ghobadi2

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