The purpose of the symposium is to accomplish knowledge and technology transfer for the building energy efficiency industry —from the laboratories of leading academic institutions, research organizations, U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program and from the best practices of operations professionals—to the building industry at large. Identification of new equipment, processes and methodologies is of major importance.

The Symposium will be co-located with the Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency (CATEE) conference, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 16-17 in Dallas, Texas. You may also attend any of the CATEE sessions without paying additional registration fees. A variety of educational and informative workshops will be held on Wednesday, December 17th. You will also receive CEU credits for attending the Symposium and workshops.

This is a benchmark year for the Symposium in that the Southern Energy Efficiency Center (SEEC) will be a primary supporter of the Symposium. The SEEC is comprised of the Florida Solar Energy Center, a research institute of the University of Central Florida, the Southface Energy Institute, a regional non-profit organization and the Energy Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M. The Symposium has traditionally been hosted by Texas A&M’s Energy Systems Laboratory but with the recent creation of the SEEC, a DOE funded endeavor, the three member organizations will equally share the responsibility of hosting this and future Symposiums. The SEEC consortium will host the 17th Symposium in 2010 to be held in the Southeast United States.

2008 Symposium Brochure (pdf, 102kb)