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Models of the existing building stock are an emerging application of multiscale building energy modeling. These models have many valuable applications from fault detection and diagnostics, goal setting for campuses and cities, infrastructure planning for utilities, and national scale technology assessments. This seminar focuses on classification of model types, sources of validation data, strategies for calibration, and best practices. These techniques are necessary to increase stakeholder confidence in the quality of models for decision making purposes. Calibration of models has the potential to close the modeling loop and improve the accuracy of building energy modeling in other applications.