2024 ABAA Conference Schedule

TUESDAYMAY 7

Time	Presentation	Speaker(s)	Room
8:00am – 8:30am	Opening Remarks: ABAA Initiatives, Goals and Successes Message from Platinum Sponsor		Grand Ballroom
8:30am – 9:30am	Future Ready Design Considerations for Building Enclosure Design	Paul Totten	Grand Ballroom
9:30am – 10:00am	BREAK
10:00am – 11:00am	Building Enclosure Vulnerabilities in Commercial Construction	Sarah Rentfro & Sierra Stewart	Grand Ballroom
11:00am – 11:15am	BREAK

11:15am – 12:00pm	ABAA Updates & ABAA Awards Ceremony

12:00pm – 1:15pm	Lunch

Time	Presentation	Speaker(s)	Room
1:15pm – 2:15pm	“What If”: A Review of Case Studies to Aid in Low-Slope Roof Systems Selection	Kristin Westover & Andrea Wagner Watts	Grand Ballroom
2:15pm – 2:45pm	BREAK
2:45pm – 3:45pm	Peeling Back the Onion	Nathan O. Taylor	Grand Ballroom
3:45pm – 4:00pm	BREAK
4:00pm – 5:00pm	Building Envelope Case Study from Initial Constructability Review through Occupancy	Corey Zussman	Grand Ballroom

6:00pm – 9:00pm	Board Meet & Greet at Capital Burger

Grand Ballroom

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Regency Ballroom

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Attendees are not bound by specific tracks and can attend any presentation they are interested in.

7:30am – 8:30am	Rise & Shine Breakfast and Networking

Time	Presentation	Speaker(s)	Room
8:30am – 9:30am	Invisible Improvement: Air Tightening an Office in a Historic Timber Pier	Jeff Speert	Grand Ballroom
8:30am – 9:30am	Building Expansion Joints: When Movement and Air Tightness must go Hand-in-Hand	Renae Kwon & Josh Hakimian	Regency Ballroom
9:30am – 9:45am	BREAK
9:45am – 10:45am	Building Envelope Airtightness Quantification – Challenges applying sectional, sampling, or wall assembly testing methods	Stephen Wong	Grand Ballroom
9:45am – 10:45am	Re-thinking Your Insulation Strategies	Len Anastasi	Regency Ballroom
10:45am – 11:00am	BREAK
11:00am – 12:00pm	Resolving Complex Geometries for Iconic Towers: Combining Unitized and Stick Built Curtain Wall Systems in High-Rise Designs	Manan Raval	Grand Ballroom
11:00am – 12:00pm	What is High Temperature?	Benjamin A. Meyer & Luke Geoffrion	Regency Ballroom

12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch

Time	Presentation	Speaker(s)	Room
1:00pm – 2:00pm	Diagnosing Air Leaks in Building Enclosures	Mike Poirier	Grand Ballroom
1:00pm – 2:00pm	Buildings Move, Buildings Leak: Revisiting the Critical Link Between Engineering Mechanics and Enclosure Performance	Jon Porter	Regency Ballroom
2:00pm – 2:15pm	BREAK
2:15pm – 3:15pm	The Key to a Successful Project: Preconstruction Building Enclosure Co-ordination Meetings	Derek Ziese	Grand Ballroom
2:15pm – 3:15pm	Glazing Systems: I have been doing it this way for 30 years, it’s gotta be right!?	Adam Ugliuzza & Jeff Dalaba	Regency Ballroom
3:15pm – 3:30pm	BREAK
3:30pm – 4:30pm	A Case Study in Enclosure Coordination: How the Academy for Global Citizenship Achieved Passive House Air Leakage Rates	Leonard Sciarra & Steve Black	Grand Ballrooom

Lake Anne

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Lake Thoreau

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Time		Chairs	Room
8:00am – 9:30am	Research Committee Meeting (1.5 hours)	Sarah Flock & Andrew Dunlap	Lake Anne
8:00am – 9:30am	Marketing Committee Meeting (1.5 hours)	Matt Nelson & Craig Wetmore	Lake Thoreau

Time		Chairs	Room
10:00am – 12:00pm	Technical Committee Meeting (2 Hours)	Andrea Wagner Watts & Cody Shelner	Lake Anne
10:00am – 11:00am	Education and Training Committee Meeting (1 hour)	Matt Hollingsworth & David Holtzclaw	Lake Thoreau

Time		Chairs	Room
12:30pm – 1:00pm	Transitions, Terminations & Flashing Ad Hoc Group (30 Minutes) Working Lunch	Adam Ugliuzza & Craig Wetmore	Lake Anne
11:30am – 12:30pm	Contractors Committee (1 hour) Working Lunch	Matt Giambrone	Lake Thoreau

MAY 7-9

Course Length: 3 Days
(May 9 is a half-day of offsite hands-on training for Installers & Auditors)

Time	Course	Room	Trainer
8:00am – 4:00pm	Self Adhered and Fluid Applied Training	Lake Thoreau	ABAA
8:00am – 4:00pm	Spray Polyurethane Foam Training	Fairfax B	ABAA
8:00am – 4:00pm	Field Auditor Training	Fairfax A	ABAA

WUFI Pro Workshop May 7-8, 2024

WUFI Pro

Hands-on 2-day workshop to learn to use WUFI(R) hygrothermal modeling software on your own laptop. Model how heat & moisture transport through your building components and assemblies; predict moisture problems & mold, etc. Software takes into account solar radiation, interior & exterior conditions, elevation, wall orientation and other factors.

Instructors are Andre Desjarlais of ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Achilles Karagiozis of National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL).

Advanced WUFI Workshop May 9-10, 2024

This ADVANCED WUFI 2-day workshop enables you to enhance your skills and knowledge in the most powerful computer modeling program available, the industry standard for building envelope design and wall analysis for heat/moisture control. Previous WUFI® workshop or equivalent experience using WUFI® is required.