This year's CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium takes place in Dublin on 3 and 4 April.
Entitled 'Moving to a new world of building systems performance', the Symposium, encourages practitioners and researchers from industry and academia to share experience and new insight. This year it will focus on the recognition that system and plant performance in the built environment is a global issue.

Speakers from both sides of the Atlantic will be presenting in a packed programme which takes place over two days. This year's event is being held at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Professor Tim Dwyer, who has helped to organise the content said: 'The Symposium will consider a range of topics that underpin the engineering assessment, design and operation of systems that integrate with the aim of delivering future cities that not only provide inhabitants with acceptable and maintainable conditions but strive to mitigate their environmental impact.

He continued: 'We have seen part of this challenge brought into sharp focus over the past 12 months with continued urban density growth in fast developing nations and incidents such as air quality issues in China, political and consumer reactions to rising energy costs in the UK, and the resilience of buildings in the freezing weather conditions recently experienced in North America.'

This year's event is being supported by Catapult Future Cities and will include a wide range of viewpoints around the central theme of building systems performance.

Confirmed presentations include:

· Walgreen's Net-Zero Energy Store (case study presentation)

· Neural and cognitive correlates of human decision-making in domestic energy use (presentation paper)

· The application of wireless sensor networks for building energy modelling (poster presentation)

· Developing building archetypes for electrical load shifting assessment: analysis of Irish residential stock(presentation paper)

· Novel techniques for modelling energy demand in the built environment (presentation paper)

· Delivering an energy model for BREEAM and LEED - exposing what really matters (case study presentation)

· LEDs are the panacea- and other fairy tales (poster presentation)

To book a place at the Symposium register at www.cibse.org/symposium2014 or email groups@cibse.org.uk