Awards

Every two years, IBPSA-USA recognizes leaders in our field with awards presented at the SimBuild conference. 

1. Distinguished Achievement Award. This award recognizes an individual who has a distinguished record of contributions to the field of building performance simulation, over a long period.
2. Outstanding Practice Award. This award recognizes an individual, group or firm who has made significant contributions to the effective application and/or advancement of building simulation in practice.
3. Emerging 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.
4. Outstanding Service Award. This award recognizes one or more individuals, groups or firms who have provided outstanding leadership in the promotion of building simulation through research, education or practice.
5. Outstanding Researcher Award. This award recognizes one or more individuals who have provided outstanding leadership in the promotion of building simulation through research in the course of their careers.
6. Outstanding Chapter Award. This award recognizes one or more IBPSA-USA Chapters that have provided outstanding leadership in the promotion of building simulation through chapter activities and have been key in promoting and fostering the vision and mission of IBPSA-USA.

See detailed Awards Definitions here

IBPSA-USA Award Recipients:

2024 (at SimBuild 2024 in Denver, CO):

• Distinguished Achievement in Building Simulation
  • Linda K. Lawrie
• Outstanding Practice
  • Big Ladder Software
• Emerging Contributor
  • June Young Park, PhD
  • Matthew Dahlhausen, PhD
  • Parastoo Delgoshaei, PhD
  • Yunyang Ye, PhD
• Outstanding Service
  • Carrie Brown, PhD
• Outstanding Researcher
  • Wangda Zuo, PhD
• Outstanding Chapter
  • IBPSA-USA Chicago Chapter

2022 (at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild  Conference in Austin, TX):

• Distinguished Achievement in Building Simulation
  • Drury Crawley, PhD
• Outstanding Practice
  • Cyclone Energy Group
• Emerging Contributor
  • Sen Huang, PhD
  • Gregory Pavlak, PhD
  • Jared Langevin, PhD
  • Mohammad Heidarinejad, PhD
• Outstanding Service
  • Jeff Haberl, PhD
• Outstanding Researcher
  • Zoltan Nagy, PhD
• Outstanding Chapter
  • IBPSA-USA Houston

2020 (at the 2020 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild Virtual Conference):

• Distinguished Achievement in Building Simulation
  • Michael Wetter
• Outstanding Practice
  • Baumann Consulting
• Emerging Contributor
  • Nathaniel Jones
  • Tarek Rakha
  • Lisa Ng
  • J. Alstan Jakubiec
• Outstanding Service
  • Timothy McDowell

2018 (at SimBuild 2018 in Chicago, IL):

• Distinguished Achievement in Building Simulation
  • Charles (Chip) S. Barnaby
  • Bruce Wilcox
• Outstanding Practitioner
  • Shruti Kasarekar
• Outstanding Practice
  • The Weidt Group
• Emerging Contributor
  • Bing Dong
  • Supriya Goel
  • Zheng O’Neill
  • Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari
• Outstanding Service
  • Erik Kolderup

2016 (at Simbuild 2016, Salt Lake City):

• Achievement: Christoph Reinhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Service: Jason Glazer, GARD Analytics
• Practitioner: Shanta Tucker, Atelier Ten
• Emerging Professional: Wangda Zuo, University of Colorado Boulder

2014 (at Simbuild2014, Atlanta​):

• Achievement: Doug Hittle, Colorado State University
• Young Contributor: Holly Samuelson, Harvard Graduate School of Design

2012 (at Simbuild2012, Madison):

• Achievement: Greg Ward, Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
• Achievement: Jeffrey Spitler, Oklahoma State University
• Practitioner: Steve Taylor, Taylor Engineering, LLC

2010 (at SimBuild2010, NYC):

• Achievement: Sandy Klein, University of Wisconsin
• Practitioner: Charles Eley, Architectural Energy Corporation

2008 (at SimBuild2008, Berkeley):

• Achievement: Godfried Augenbroe, Georgia Tech
• Achievement: Joe Huang, LBNL
• Practitioner: Joe Deringer, SuPerB

2006 (at SimBuild2006, Boston):

• Achievement: Larry Degelman, Texas A&M University

2004 (at SimBuild2004, Boulder):

• Achievement: Fred Winkelmann, LBNL
• Practitioner: Dan Nall, Flack + Kurtz

– See more at: https://www.ibpsa.us/past-ibpsa-usa-award-recipients#sthash.lJUomBe4.dpuf

IBPSA-USA Members who are IBPSA-World Fellows:

The following IBPSA-USA members have achieved membership grade of Fellow in IBPSA-World. These members have attained distinction in the field of building performance simulation (or in the allied arts or sciences), by either the teaching of major courses in said arts and sciences, or by way of research, simulation code development, original work, or the application of building simulation on projects of a significant scope. The individual must have been active in the field for at least ten years. 

For the full list of IBSPA-World fellows, please see http://www.ibpsa.org/?page_id=310.

2019

• Christoph Reinhart
• Jelena Srebric​
• Michael Witte
• Zhiqiang (John) Zhai​

2017​

• Peter Simmonds
• Tianzhen Hong
• Zulfi Cumali

​2015

• Charles S. Barnaby
• Linda Lawrie

2013

• Godfried Augenbroe
• Daniel Fisher
• Drury Crawley
• Jeff Haberl
• Jeffrey Spitler
• James Braun
• Larry Degelman
• Michael Wetter
• Sanford (Sandy) Klein

2011

• Philip Haves
• Curt Pedersen
• Edward Sowell
• George Walton