Visualizing Building Performance with Game Engines
Join the IBPSA-USA Boston Chapter for an in-person session hosted at Buro Happold’s Boston office. Patrick Pease, PE, Associate Principal and Building Performance Leader at Buro Happold, will present on how game engine technology is transforming building design. The session will highlight how real-time simulation and immersive visualization can improve decision-making, explore design trade-offs, and elevate project outcomes through practical examples.
Patrick Pease
Patrick is an Associate Principal on Buro Happold’s advisory team and the US Building Performance Leader. An innovator in design and simulation processes, Patrick uses technology to deliver high-quality results and drive collaboration on projects. His past projects include both high-performance design for complex projects – such as the Living Building Challenge Climate Exchange campus – and innovative solutions to building performance simulation. As a mechanical engineer and energy modeler for over a decade, Patrick has worked in the across the US and EU on an array of hospitality, commercial, higher education, laboratory, and healthcare building and campus developments. His passion for innovation and quality has included the creation of a wholly new energy modeling platform and publishing 5 papers at industry conferences. As an active member of ASHRAE and IBPSA, Patrick sits on the 90.1 ECB sub-committee, and is a voting member of ASHRAE SSPC 209 and the IBPSA Certification Committee.
