CalBEM’s purpose is to empower California’s building energy modeling (BEM) community to identify, explore, and prioritize the challenges they share, and then support solutions to those challenges to help to promote low-carbon buildings.

What is CalBEM?

CalBEM (California Building Energy Modeling) is a stakeholder collective and an annual statewide event hosted by Southern California Edison on behalf of the California Investor-Owned Utilities. CalBEM collaborates to identify and pursue systemic solutions in building energy modeling that advance California’s climate action goals. CalBEM participants come together each year at the annual Symposium to join interactive collaboration sessions and learn from energy modeling leaders across CA. Workshop sessions will cover each of CalBEM’s three Working Groups: Streamline & Simplify Processes, Educate Users, and Improve Capabilities & Accuracy.

Read more about CalBEM’s core goals and what the Working Groups are up to these days.


Thank you for joining us at…

CalBEM 2O23

The 8th Annual CA Building Energy Modeling Symposium

Want to review slides or re-watch select videos? Find event materials here:

Highlighted CalBEM 2023 Presentations:

CalBEM 2023 Keynote Speaker:

Plenary:

  • Will Vicent, California Energy Commission
    2025 California Energy Code & Beyond

Panel Discussions with Q&A:

  • Evaluating the Potential Role for Machine Readable Rulesets in the Title 24 Code Cycle Update Process
    • Neal Kruis (Big Ladder Software)
    • Dove Feng (TRC)
    • Greg Collins (Zero Envy)
    • Liam Buckley (IES-VE)
    • Moderated by RJ Wichert (CEC)
  • Dynamic Grid Modeling & Load Flexibility in BEM
    • Mary Ann Piette (LBNL)
    • Ryan McFadyen (SCE)
    • Scott Spielman (Ecotope)
    • Moderated by Marc Costa (The Energy Coalition)


You can access past meeting materials on the Archive page.


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