[HTML][HTML] Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis

U Ali, MH Shamsi, C Hoare, E Mangina… - Energy and buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The world has witnessed a significant population shift to urban areas over the past few
decades. Urban areas account for about two-thirds of the world's total primary energy …

Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches

M Ferrando, F Causone, T Hong, Y Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Regulations corroborate the importance of retrofitting existing building stocks or constructing
new energy-efficient districts. There is, thus, a need for modeling tools to evaluate energy …

Ten questions on urban building energy modeling

T Hong, Y Chen, X Luo, N Luo, SH Lee - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Buildings in cities consume up to 70% of all primary energy. To achieve cities' energy and
climate goals, it is necessary to reduce energy use and associated greenhouse gas …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and optimization of multi-energy systems in mixed-use districts: A review of existing methods and approaches

C Klemm, P Vennemann - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
About 75% of the world's energy consumption takes place in cities. Although their large
energy consumption attracts a large number of research projects, only a small fraction of …

Reinforcement learning for demand response: A review of algorithms and modeling techniques

JR Vázquez-Canteli, Z Nagy - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings account for about 40% of the global energy consumption. Renewable energy
resources are one possibility to mitigate the dependence of residential buildings on the …

Urban energy use modeling methods and tools: A review and an outlook

N Abbasabadi, M Ashayeri - Building and environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban energy use modeling is important for understanding and managing energy
performance in cities. However, the existing methods and tools have limitations in …

Fusing TensorFlow with building energy simulation for intelligent energy management in smart cities

JR Vázquez-Canteli, S Ulyanin, J Kämpf… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 35% of the global final energy demand. Efficiency improvements and
advanced control strategies have a significant impact in the reduction of energy costs and …

[HTML][HTML] Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice

W Yap, P Janssen, F Biljecki - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban
planning practice. However, their overview is fragmented, and the uptake among planning …

Building simulation: Ten challenges

T Hong, J Langevin, K Sun - Building simulation, 2018 - Springer
Buildings consume more than one-third of the world's primary energy. Reducing energy use
and greenhouse-gas emissions in the buildings sector through energy conservation and …

Coupling urban climate modeling and city-scale building energy simulations with the statistical analysis: Climate and energy implications of high albedo materials in …

I Adilkhanova, M Santamouris, GY Yun - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study represents a pioneering effort to evaluate the urban cooling effect from the
city-scale application of high albedo materials on urban buildings' energy consumption in …