.: Nominations for IBPSA Awards – 2013

It is time to consider nominations for the up-coming 2013 conference in Chambery, France.
The Board of IBPSA is seeking nominations for Awards to be presented at Building Simulation 2013, IBPSA's 13th biennial conference, in Chambery, France from August 26 to 28, 2013.

What are IBPSA Awards?

IBPSA AWARDS
The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) makes three awards for outstanding work in the building performance simulation field. These awards are made on a biennial basis at each Building Simulation Conference, providing there is a qualified candidate. In order to allow the awardees time to plan to attend, it is time to consider nominations for the up-coming conference in 2013.

In addition, IBPSA recognizes members who have attained distinction in the field of building performance simulation with the grade of Fellow. Information on nominations for the grade of Fellow may be found on the membership page.

The three categories awarded are:

IBPSA Award for Distinguished Service to Building Simulation
This award recognizes an individual who has a distinguished record of contributions to the field of building performance simulation, over a long period. The award consists of a certificate and $500 (US).

IBPSA Outstanding Young Contributor Award
This award recognizes an individual at the beginning of their career who has demonstrated potential for significant contributions to the field of building simulation. The award consists of a certificate and $500 (US).

IBPSA Outstanding Practice Award
This award recognizes and individual, group or firm, who has made significant contributions to the effective application and/or advancement of building simulation in practice. The award consists of a certificate and $US500.

Nominations

Nominations for awards MUST be made by an INDEPENDENT third party.

Nominations for the Distinguished Service Award should include a brief CV which gives the history of involvement with building performance simulation, publications etc., and a summary of the nominee’s specific contribution to the field of building performance
simulation – e.g. in the development/ contribution to development of building performance simulation tools or in furthering knowledge in the field of application of building performance simulation, etc.

Nominations for the IBPSA Outstanding Young Contributor Award should include a brief CV, which gives a summary of the individual's contributions to the field of building performance simulation, their publications etc., and an assessment of the potential for future contributions arising from the individual.

Nominations for the Outstanding Practice Award should be accompanied by a summary of the individual's, group's or firm's contributions to the field of building performance simulation in practice and an assessment of the significance of these contributions.

Submission Deadline and Details

Deadline - 31 January 2013

Submit to - Nominations should be sent in the first instance to Lori McElroy, Chair of the Awards Committee lori@sust.org by a closing date of the 31st January 2013.

We would like as many nominations as possible, so please contact me to discuss a possible nomination if required.

Recent Past Recipients of these awards are:

Distinguished Service Award

IBPSA Outstanding Young Contributor Award

IBPSA Outstanding Practice Award

.: Student Travel Awards – Supporting students to attend BS2013

Travel to IBPSA Conferences can be an expensive business – especially for students. In order to assist as many students as possible to participate in BS 2013 in Chambray, France, IBPSA will grant a number of travel awards of up to 1000USD to students presenting papers. The number of places is limited to a maximum of 5 grants and as a result is highly competitive. The selection committee bases its decisions upon the following selection criteria:

• Overall quality of the paper;

• relevance of contribution to the field of and/or furthering the effective application of building simulation;

• need for financial assistance, evidenced in a letter of recommendation from the student’s supervisor/ advisor of studies (must be on university letterhead).

• To be eligible, the student must be:

  • enrolled in a graduate programme related to building simulation at the time of the conference; AND
  • the thesis project must be directly related to building simulation.

Applications MUST be supported by a letter of recommendation from the student’s supervisor/ advisor of studies.

Applications for the award must be made by 31 January, 2013 via e-mail to lori@sust.org. The subject heading of the e-mail should be "Student Travel Award - paper XXX" where XXX is the three-digit reference number for your paper.

The e-mail application must include the following:

• The student's name;

• The name of the programme, department, faculty, and university;

• The title of the PhD or Master's research;

• The name of the student's supervisor(s)/ advisor(s);

• A scanned version of the faculty recommendation letter on university letterhead in PDF format. (Note that the original letter must be presented to the Conference Secretariat at the conference).
  

The selection committee will base its decision upon a review of the final manuscripts. Therefore, to be eligible the student MUST submit the paper by the full paper deadline of 31 January, 2013.

Nominations should be sent in the first instance to Lori McElroy as representative of the Awards Committee lori@sust.org by a closing date of the 31st January 2013.

We would like as many nominations as possible, so please contact me to discuss a possible nomination if required.

Payment will be made either to the academic department before the conference or directly to the student at the conference.