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Designing a New Building That Has a Carbon Neutral Footprint Is the Focus of ASHRAE’s 2020 Modeling Competition

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  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Awards
  • Atlanta, GA

Designing a New Building That Has a Carbon Neutral Footprint Is the Focus of ASHRAE’s 2020 Modeling Competition

Media Contact:
Sherri Simmons
404-446-1660
ssimmons@duffey.com

ATLANTA (February 17, 2020) – ASHRAE is inviting individuals and project teams to participate in the 6th Annual ASHRAE LowDown Showdown (LDSd) modeling competition, taking place at the 2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild on August 12-14, 2020, in Chicago, IL. The 2020 BPACS is co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA. Sign up for the competition as a team or individually at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7RXJJ8J by March 6, 2020.

The ASHRAE LowDown Showdown modeling competition engages teams comprised of building analysts, designers, architects and engineers in a collaborative and fun learning experience that explores new advances in building science, modeling and technology. Participants work as integrated teams to create effective workflows and an outstanding designs to address real-word building efficiency challenges. 

The 2020 LDSd model building will be located in New York City where participating teams will design a 300,000 square foot, 15 story mixed-use building located anywhere in the five boroughs. The building will contain retail space, residential space and a full-service restaurant. 

“Each year of the LDSd competition, we ask participating teams to take on a new challenge in building performance analysis,” said John Bynum, chair of the LowDown Showdown sub-committee. “This year, we’re taking a page from New York City’s groundbreaking new Climate Mobilization Act that requires building owners to reduce their carbon footprint. The 2020 LDSd will challenge participants to design a new building that has a low carbon or carbon neutral footprint.”

Teams will be responsible for creating the architectural design and a performance analysis model based on model building data. The teams may use any software or a combination of software to complete their projects.

Each team will create and submit a poster of their building design, complete the performance analysis model and results spreadsheet and write a one-page narrative on project workflow. Teams will present their projects at the BPAC conference and be judged by a panel of industry experts who will select the winners. Teams will be judged on seven categories: Creativity, Innovative Approaches, Carbon Emissions, Workflow, Energy Use, Teamwork and Presentation. 

Questions about the 6th Annual LowDown Showdown (LDSd) modeling competition can be sent to Chris Preyor at cpreyor@ashrae.org. For more information about the conference, visit the Building Performance Analysis Conference web page.

About ASHRAE
Founded in 1894, ASHRAE is a global professional society committed to serve humanity by advancing the arts and sciences of heating ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and their allied fields.

As an industry leader in research, standards writing, publishing, certification and continuing education, ASHRAE and its members are dedicated to promoting a healthy and sustainable built environment for all, through strategic partnerships with organizations in the HVAC&R community and across related industries.

ASHRAE is celebrating 125 years of shaping the built environment. Become a member of ASHRAE by visiting ashrae.org/join.  

For more information and to stay up-to-date on ASHRAE, visit ashrae.org and connect on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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