Combining physical approaches with deep learning techniques for urban building energy modeling: A comprehensive review and future research prospects

Z Li, J Ma, Y Tan, C Guo, X Li - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent times, there has been a growing interest in urban building energy modeling
(UBEM), owing to its potential benefits for cities. These benefits include aiding city decision …

Archetype building energy modeling approaches and applications: A review

P Shen, H Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Archetype Building Energy Models (ABEMs) are representations of buildings in a
certain region that enable the assessment of energy use across building stocks in a bottom …

[HTML][HTML] Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information: A global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes

F Biljecki, YS Chow, K Lee - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Geospatial data of the building stock is essential in many domains pertaining to the built
environment. These datasets are often provided by governments, but crowdsourcing them …

Develo** urban building energy models for shanghai city with multi-source open data

C Song, Z Deng, W Zhao, Y Yuan, M Liu, S Xu… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban building energy modeling is crucial for guiding carbon reduction policies, but
acquiring reliable data at the urban scale remains challenging. This study develops a model …

AutoBPS: A tool for urban building energy modeling to support energy efficiency improvement at city-scale

Z Deng, Y Chen, J Yang, F Causone - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
China has promised to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral before
2060. Achieving this target requires actions from all sectors, especially the building sector …

EUBUCCO v0. 1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings

N Milojevic-Dupont, F Wagner, F Nachtigall, J Hu… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia
because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building …

Investigating the impact of urban microclimate on building thermal performance: A case study of dense urban areas in Hong Kong

S Liu, YT Kwok, C Ren - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban microclimate conditions could be an important factor influencing building thermal
performance. However, most studies on urban building energy modeling (UBEM) use the …

[HTML][HTML] Designing climate resilient energy systems in complex urban areas considering urban morphology: A technical review

K Javanroodi, ATD Perera, T Hong, VM Nik - Advances in Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The urban energy infrastructure is facing a rising number of challenges due to climate
change and rapid urbanization. In particular, the link between urban morphology and energy …

A novel resistance-capacitance model for evaluating urban building energy loads considering construction boundary heterogeneity

X Wang, S Tian, J Ren, X **, X Zhou, X Shi - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
To address the problems associated with the accuracy of existing resistance-capacitance
(RC)-based urban building energy modeling (UBEM) being low, a novel RC-based UBEM …

Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally

Q Zhou, Y Zhang, K Chang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an essential source for acquiring building data, although such data
may suffer from quality issues. Many studies have focused on assessing OSM building data …