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The following grants supported the development of the IBPSA library:

• LBNL was supported for the development of this library by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Building Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy, under contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
• The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT) and WTCB in the frame of the IWT-VIS Traject SMART GEOTHERM focusing on integration of thermal energy storage and thermal inertia in geothermal concepts for smart heating and cooling of (medium) large buildings. The authors also acknowledge the financial support by IWT for the PhD work of F. Jorissen (contract number 131012). The work of Bram van der Heijde is funded through the project "Towards a Sustainable Energy Supply in Cities" by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund ERDF, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Province of Limburg.
• RWTH Aachen University was supported for the development of this library by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), promotional reference no. 03ET1177A, 03ET1211B.
• UdK Berlin was supported for the development of this library by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), promotional reference no. 03ET1177D, 03ESP409C.
• Aalborg University was supported for the development of this library by the Danish Energy Agency, under the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP), journal no. 64013-0566.

The following people have directly contributed to the implementation of the IBPSA library (many others have contributed by other means than model implementation):

• David Blum, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Massimo Cimmino, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
• Jianjun Hu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Marcus Fuchs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Filip Jorissen, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Alex Laferriere, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
• Moritz Lauster, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Alessandro Maccarini, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Philipp Mehrfeld, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Jens Moeckel, UdK Berlin, Germany
• Thierry S. Nouidui, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, UdK Berlin, Germany
• Damien Picard, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Matthis Thorade, UdK Berlin, Germany
• Carles Ribas Tugores, UdK Berlin, Germany
• Bram van der Heijde, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Michael Wetter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA