Eric Ringold (NLR) on running 150,000 building energy models — May 13, Noon MT, Boise. Sponsored by Idaho Power.
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BSUG Lecture Series
Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Stock
For engineers, architects, & simulationists
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When
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Noon – 1:00 p.m. MT
Where
Idaho Water Center, Room 150
322 E. Front Street, Boise, ID 83702
Parking
Available beneath the building or in the adjacent garage. First hour free; $1.00 each additional hour.
Lunch
Free lunch for in-person attendees who register at least 24 hours in advance.
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About the Talk
What does it take to model an entire country's commercial building stock? This talk walks through the end-to-end process behind a representative national model — from developing stock-level inputs, to generating and running 150,000 building energy models, to processing and evaluating the resulting data.
Eric will share lessons from the open-source workflow that translate to everyday BEM practice, along with concrete use cases for stock-level building energy data.
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You'll Leave Able To
01 Identify the key challenges in building a national-scale commercial stock model.
02 Understand the workflow for generating, running, processing, and evaluating large-scale energy simulations.
03 Apply lessons from stock modeling to your own BEM work.
04 Evaluate use cases for stock-level building modeling data.
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About the Speaker
Eric Ringold
Senior Researcher · Building Stock Modeling & Analysis Group, National Laboratory of the Rockies
Eric develops tools to evaluate the energy use of the U.S. commercial building stock and applies that data to understand and improve grid-scale energy use. Before joining NLR, he spent over a decade in commercial building energy efficiency consulting across Portland, NYC, Denver, and Oakland — modeling new and existing buildings of all types to meet local code, green-building certifications, and client efficiency goals. He's especially interested in leveraging software to streamline how building energy models get built.
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Series Sponsor
Idaho Power
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