Nearly 30 experts from the US, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland attended the U.S.-Ireland Workshop on Multi-Scale Building Energy Performance Prediction at the University College Dublin. The participants were from a wide variety of backgrounds including government, academia, national laboratories, industries, and non-profit organizations. They discussed the challenges and opportunities in modeling for building energy performance in the three jurisdiction. We are happy to see this workshop be so successful and look forward to the continued collaborations and new collaborations that can come from this.
The workshop was a spin-off of our joint project “U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Intelligent Data Harvesting for Multi-Scale Building Stock Classification and Energy Performance Prediction” with James O’Donnell at University College Dublin and Neil Hewitt at Ulster University. We were glad to have Ph.D. students Rosina Adhikari and Jiyuan Sui as well as undergraduate students Almila Meng and Alex Pan join the workshop. This was a great opportunity for several of our students to learn from the experts. We are extremely grateful to National Science Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and Department of Economy NI for sponsoring this research.
