Using Building Performance Modeling in Building Information Modeling for Laboratories
Renée Azerbegi, CEM, LEED AP® BD+C, Ambient Energy
The General Services Administration has issued building information modeling (BIM) guidelines for its buildings; a BIM guideline on energy modeling will be released this summer.
This presentation will provide an overview of BIM, identifying energy benchmarks, quality controls, and the role of energy, daylight and computational fluid dynamics modeling. The speaker will provide an in-depth look at how to use BIM-based software in building performance modeling, techniques for generating the BIM model so that it can be imported, and advantages of BIM-based models over traditional one dimensional and two dimensional modeling softwares. The speaker will provide a definition for energy modeling, the process, why it is performed, how energy modeling interacts with LEED®, Title 24, and ASHRAE, software choices, and provide case study examples of buildings including several laboratories. This talk will also review daylight and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, describe this process, when these analysis methods are used, and provide some case studies where BIM-based building performance models have been used successfully for laboratory building design to maximize energy, airflow, and daylight performance.
Renée Azerbegi is the president of Ambient Energy, and has 15 years of experience specializing in energy modeling, green building rating systems, life cycle costing, renewable energy, and mechanical design. Ms. Azerbegi's voluntary commitments to the green building industry currently include chair of the Awards Committee for the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, co-chair of the Energy Efficiency Building Coalition Energy Modeling Committee, and member of the International Facility Management Association's Sustainability Committee. Ms. Azerbegi has a master's in building systems engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she quantified both the economic and environmental impacts of LEED for her master's thesis, and a bachelor's in environmental science and geography from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ms. Azerbegi's current focus is on managing the California office, commissioning team, and Californian and other projects.