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The development of building simulation represents a combined effort between academia, governmental institutions, industry, and professional organizations. Over the past decades the building simulation discipline has matured into a field that offers unique expertise, methods and tools for [[building performance]] evaluation. Several review papers and state of the art analysis were carried out during that time giving an overview about the development.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Augenbroe|first1=Godfried|last2=Hensen|first2=Jan|date=2004-08-01|title=Simulation for better building design|journal=Building and Environment|series=Building Simulation for Better Building Design|volume=39|issue=8|pages=875–877|doi=10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.04.001}}</ref><ref>Hensen, J. (2006). [http://www.janhensen.nl/publications_folder/06_ibpsa-cz_hensen.pdf About the current state of building performance simulation and ibpsa]. In ''4th national IBPS-CZ conference'' (p. 2).</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=Haidong|last2=Zhai|first2=Zhiqiang (John)|date=2016-09-15|title=Advances in building simulation and computational techniques: A review between 1987 and 2014|journal=Energy and Buildings|volume=128|pages=319–335|doi=10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.080}}</ref>

In the 1980s, a discussion about future directions for BPS among a group of leading building simulation specialists started. There was a consensus that most of the tools, that had been developed until then, were too rigid in their structure to be able to accommodate the improvements and flexibility that would be called for in the future.<ref>Clarke, J.A.; Sowell, E.F.; the Simulation Research Group (1985): ''A Proposal to Develop a Kernel System for the Next Generation of Building Energy Simulation Software'', Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Nov. 4, 1985</ref> Around this time, the very first equation-based building simulation environment '''ENET'''<ref>Low, D. and Sowell, E.F. (1982): ''ENET, a PC-based building energy simulation system,'' Energy Programs Conference, IBM Real Estate and Construction Division, Austin, Texas (1982), pp. 2-7</ref> was developed, which provided the foundation of '''SPARK'''. In 1989, Sahlin and Sowell presented a '''[[Neutral Model Format]]''' (NMF) for building simulation models, which is used today in the commercial software [[IDA Indoor Climate and Energy|IDA ICE]].<ref>Sahlin, P. and Sowell, E.F. (1989). A neutral format for building simulation models, Proceedings of the Second International IBPSA Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 147-154, http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS1989/BS89_147_154.pdf</ref> Four years later, Klein introduced the '''[[Engineering Equation Solver]]''' (EES)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Klein|first=S. A.|date=1993-01-01|title=Development and integration of an equation-solving program for engineering thermodynamics courses|journal=Computer Applications in Engineering Education|language=en|volume=1|issue=3|pages=265–275|doi=10.1002/cae.6180010310|s2cid=60901354|issn=1099-0542}}</ref> and in 1997, Mattsson and Elmqvist reported on an international effort to design '''[[Modelica]]'''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mattsson|first1=Sven Erik|last2=Elmqvist|first2=Hilding|date=April 1997|title=Modelica - An International Effort to Design the Next Generation Modeling Language|journal=IFAC Proceedings Volumes|series=7th IFAC Symposium on Computer Aided Control Systems Design (CACSD '97), Gent, Belgium, 28–30 April|volume=30|issue=4|pages=151–155|doi=10.1016/S1474-6670(17)43628-7|citeseerx=10.1.1.16.5750}}</ref>

BPS still presents challenges relating to problem representation, support for performance appraisal, enabling operational application, and delivering user education, training, and accreditation. Clarke (2015) describes a future vision of BPS with the following, most important tasks which should be addressed by the global BPS community.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Clarke|first=Joe|date=2015-03-04|title=A vision for building performance simulation: a position paper prepared on behalf of the IBPSA Board|journal=Journal of Building Performance Simulation|volume=8|issue=2|pages=39–43|doi=10.1080/19401493.2015.1007699|issn=1940-1493|doi-access=free}}</ref>