CSI Chicago's 15th Annual Building Enclosure Event

CSI is hosting a presentation overviewing trends and drivers affecting building enclosure and the building industry. The program will also cover building performance simulation fundamentals and history, BIM,  comparisons of underlying simulation methods, and thoughts on how these can be used to design better building envelopes. The event will take place on Thursday, February 22nd at Maggiano's at 516 N. Clark Street in Chicago. The event is divided into a morning session and an afternoon session, each of which is similar to the other. Attendees may choose to attend one or both. Chicagoland AGC members receive the Industry Partner Rate. 

The building industry is undergoing profound change with amazing new technologies and systems available to make our buildings better—more sustainable, resilient and energy-efficient. Over the last 50 years, building simulation has evolved into a powerful tool for evaluating the energy performance of potential or existing buildings. Building simulation allows easy comparison of the energy and environmental performance of many hundreds of building envelope and other building systems. The buildings touted today as ‘net-zero-energy’ or ‘sustainable' would not be possible without energy simulation—but no single simulation tool can model all aspects of our buildings today. 

Registration is available online.