IBPSA-USA Mixa Webinar: Passive Sustainability
How do we model and simulate passive survivability of buildings during power outages, what metrics do we use, what conditions are modeled, what preemptive and emergency strategies can be taken to improve survivability, and should modeling of passive survivability become standard practice for whole building energy modeling.
Hear about and discuss these topics and more at our upcoming IBPSA-Mixa talk on passive survivability in January 2025.
Eliza Hotchkiss
Eliza Hotchkiss was recently selected as the new director of the Energy Security and Resilience Center (ESRC) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In her new role, Eliza will oversee the center’s research and development efforts, working closely with research centers and offices across NREL to advance critical projects that support energy security and resilience.
With 15 years of groundbreaking research at NREL, Eliza has been instrumental in establishing the laboratory’s resilience portfolio. She is a recognized global leader in disaster recovery, resilience science, international sustainable development, and energy security. Her pioneering work in resilience includes developing metrics for assessing and monetizing resilience and energy security solutions, energy security frameworks, and resilience assessment methodologies at various scales.
Zolton Nagy
Dr. Nagy is a building systems expert specializing in smart buildings, renewable energy systems, and sustainable building operations. Combining robotics and artificial intelligence backgrounds, he directs the Intelligent Environments Laboratory, developing advanced control systems for zero-emission buildings. He is a fellow of IBPSA World.
He is a co-operating agent of the IEA Human-Centric-Building Network that investigates the evolving role of humans in the energy transition to address climate change.
Nathaniel Jones
Dr. Nathaniel Jones is a senior building scientist at Arup, an architecture professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and president of IBPSA-USA. Nathaniel created comfort.arup.com, Arup’s advanced online comfort modeling tool, which uses peer-reviewed thermoregulatory models to understand the thermal comfort of diverse building occupants.
