The eViz project has two abstracts accepted for the Building Simulation 2013 conference in Chambery, France. More than 800 abstracts were submitted into the review process.

1. Using building simulation to drive changes in occupant behaviour: a pilot study
Authors: de Wilde, Pieter; Pahl, Sabine; Hamza, Neveen; Wei, Shen; Jones, Rory Victor; AboHela, Islam

2. Data capture needs for the representation of occupant behaviour in building performance simulation and monitoring
Authors: Jones, Rory Victor; Wei, Shen; Goodhew, Steve; de Wilde, Pieter

The full papers are now due for submission before the 31st of January 2013.

We have created an eViz project Twitter account. You can follow us @evizproject

Alongside the usual project updates and announcements we will be attempting to keep things interesting with links to other useful sites and news.

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Sabine Pahl and Rory Jones will be attending the TEDDI and BuildTEDDI Network Meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Birmingham NEC, on Wednesday 14th November 2012 as representatives of the eViz project.

The aim of the meeting is to set up a network to enable the researchers funded by the TEDDI and BuildTEDDI calls to discuss their research and identify synergies and research gaps but also encourage interaction with stakeholders on each others projects, users of the research and policy makers. 

The meeting will allow the investigators on the grants from the two calls to meet each other, learn from their experiences so far and discuss what a network in this area should try to achieve and also who might lead the network.

Come and say hello to us!

The eViz project launch meeting was held on Wednesday 12th September 2012 at Plymouth University. The project team from across the four partner universities discussed the project goals and objectives and work package leaders gave a number of short presentations.

The eViz team also had the opportunity to meet and discuss avenues of potential collaboration with the external project partners, which included the Plymouth City Council, C3 Resources and Regen SW.

In their roles as international advisors to the eViz project, Professor Cees Midden, Professor Ardeshir Mahdahvi and Professor Stephen Sheppard all gave presentations via video conference to the eViz team.

The eViz project was funded in response to the call ‘Transforming Energy Demand in Buildings through Digital Innovation (BuildTEDDI)’.

This call was announced by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in October 2011. The eViz researchers were informed of their successful proposal in March 2012.