1 Introduction to Building Performance Simulation Jan Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Roberto Lamberts (Federal University of Santa Catarina) 2The role of simulation in performance based building Godfried Augenbroe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 3 Weather Data for Building Performance Simulation Dru Crawley (Bentley Systems, Inc., USA) and Chip Barnaby (Wrightsoft, USA) 4People in building performance simulation Ardeshir Mahdavi (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) 5 Thermal load and energy performance prediction Jeffrey Spitler (Oklahoma State University, USA) 6Ventilation Performance Prediction Jelena Srebric(Pennsylvania State University, USA) 7Indoor Thermal Quality Performance Prediction Christoph van Treeck (Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany) 8Room Acoustics Performance Prediction Ardeshir Mahdavi (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) 9Daylight Performance Predictions Christoph Reinhart (Harvard University, USA) 10 Moisture phenomena in whole building performance prediction Jan Carmeliet (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland); Bert Blocken (Eindhoven University of Technology,The Netherlands), Thijs Defraeye (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and Dominique Derome (EMPA, Switzerland) 11 HVAC systems performance prediction Jonathan Wright (Loughborough University, UK) 12 Micro-cogeneration system performance predicition Ian Beausoleil-Morrison (Carleton University, Canada) 13 Building simulation for practical operational optimization David Claridge (Texas A&M University, USA) 14 Building simulation in building automation systems Gregor P Henze (University of Colorado, USA) and Christian Neumann (Fraunhofer Institute, Freiburg, Germany) 15 Integrated resource flow modelling of the urban built environment Darren Robinson (EPFL, Switzerland) 16 Building simulation for policy support Dru Crawley (Bentley Systems, Inc., USA) 17 A view on future building system modeling and simulation Michael Wetter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)