<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center is hosting the <b>5</b></span>^<b>th</b><span style="font-size:12pt"><b> Residential
Building Design & Construction Conference</b> (RBDCC) on March 4-6,
2020 at the Penn Stater Conference Center in State College, PA.</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This paper submission-based conference provides a forum
for researchers, architects, engineers, other design professionals, product
manufacturers, builders, developers, and code officials to discuss challenges
to sustainable, energy efficient, healthy, environmentally friendly, natural
hazard resistant, and affordable residential construction, and share recent
research findings, state-of-the-art technologies, and innovative projects and
approaches in the field. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Call for Abstracts</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b> </b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><a href="https://www.phrc.psu.edu/assets/docs/RBDCC-2020_Announcement-and-Call-for-Submissions_FINAL.pdf" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">View
the Announcement and Call for Submissions here</a>.</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Experts from academia, A/E design firms, builders,
developers, manufacturers, and government and code officials are cordially
invited to submit 200-300 word abstracts by <b>April 15, 2019</b> on
all aspects of residential buildings. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Abstracts must be submitted here, <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2020rbdcc" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2020rbdcc</a></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For submission questions, email Conference Secretariat Sarah
Klinetob Lowe, <a href="mailto:slowe@engr.psu.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">slowe@engr.psu.edu</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">---------------------<br></p><div><img src="cid:ii_jt7y74kh1" alt="NSF-globe-logo-300.png" width="120" height="120" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_jt7y6die0" alt="NCO copy.jpg" width="146" height="49" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div>