IBPSA-USA

Requests for Proposals

IBPSA-USA Requests for Proposals

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Request for Proposals for this project is now closed.

The IBPSA-USA Building Data Exchange (BDE) Committee has been working to address long-standing inconsistencies in Building Energy Modeling (BEM) output reporting. The 2023-2024 project, Review of BPM Protocols and BEM Reporting Output, analyzed reporting requirements across protocols and software, identified 48 categories, and revealed significant fragmentation in how outputs are defined. This work showed that inconsistent terminology and data structures hinder automation efforts, add to reviewer burden, and reduce the usefulness of models for compliance, performance rating, and design-assist applications. Building on these findings, the 2024 project, BEM Compliance Reporting Automation Roadmap, set out a vision for schema-driven reporting and began outreach to Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs), software developers, and practitioners, highlighting the need to move from conceptual frameworks to practical schema development, example reports, and active stakeholder engagement.

The next phase of this effort will focus on moving from vision to implementation by developing a standard data model specification for BEM output reporting, along with modern, automatically generated human-readable report(s) to showcase what the schema enables. Together, these specifications will create a bridge between automation and practical application, enabling both streamlined compliance workflows and easier interpretation of results.
 
IBPSA-USA is seeking a consultant to collaborate with the BDE Output Reporting working group in developing this data model specification, example file(s) compiling the aforestated specification, and example report(s) automatically generated from the example building energy simulation data.
Further detail can be found in the full Request for Proposal linked below.
 
 
Submission Schedule:
Submit proposals in PDF form via email to Hanif Smith, executive.director@ibpsa.us, by 5:00 pm Pacific time on October 31, 2025.
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