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About the challenge

HackSimBuild ‘24 is a 24-hour hackathon where participants (you) develop and test creative new approaches to building performance simulation. This event will bring together modelers, programmers, students, academics, designers, and engineers of all types to collaborate in a design sprint. At the end of this fun and immersive event, we will award prizes to the teams with the most original, innovative, and market-ready tools, metrics, ideas, or other hacks they present to our industry-leading panel of jurors.

 

Get started

HackSimBuild will take place on May 19-20, 2024, immediately before SimBuild 2024. Participants will present their work to SimBuild attendees and a panel of judges during SimBuild 2024.

The program will kick-off with an opportunity for the participants to share quick introductions about their background and interests. This will be followed by a half-hour-long team-forming session to allow participants (in-person and online) to pitch their hacking ideas and join teams to collaborate on a common goal for their HackSimBuild project.

We encourage teams that integrate students, building analysts, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and other participants. Registrants may form teams in advance or at the event.  Teams may include up to 6 people. Teams will have 24 hours to address a building performance simulation challenge of their choosing.

The teams may use any software or a combination of software to complete their projects. Open-source projects are highly encouraged!

Requirements

What to Build

HackSimBuild invites you to network and form teams to address challenges like these:

  • Create a new metric we should use in building design including why it is important and how to calculate it

  • Demonstrate a building science concept to someone without an architecture, engineering, or construction background

  • Diagnose a cause of the performance gap between a building energy model and a real building

  • Make quality of life improvement in the practice of building performance simulation.

  • Ease the process of model creation or input/output documentation

  • Create a method to check a model for known issues or errors

  • Connect two pieces of software together

  • Develop a method for modeling a technology, occupant behavior, or fault/issue that is difficult to model in existing software

  • … or choose your own adventure

The challenges are open-ended, spanning the intersection of buildings and simulation. Solutions can involve any combination of hardware, software, graphics, or processes.

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Prizes

$1,000 in prizes
Best Overall Hack
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

TBD

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Judging Criteria

  • Creativity and Innovation (25%)
    How innovative and groundbreaking is the idea? Is it something that we could see changing the BEM industry?
  • Execution (25%)
    How well implemented is the hack? How difficult was the technical problem that the team solved? Did you find a new use for, or leverage, an existing piece of technology? Did the team produce a working demonstration?
  • Teamwork & Collaboration (20%)
    How diverse is the team across professional disciplines, skill sets, and organizations?
  • Open-source (20%)
    Is the project on GitHub/Bitbucket? Is it open-source? Is it well-documented with examples? Did you build upon other open-source software?
  • Learning (10%)
    Did team members challenge themselves to learn something new? Which technologies/APIs/products/methods did you use that you didn't know before?

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