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Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) support urbanscale energy decisions and have recently been applied to use cases requiring dynamic outputs like grid management. However, their predictive capability remains insufficiently addressed,…
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Understanding how buildings are distributed globally is crucial to revealing the human footprint on our home planet. This built environment affects local climate, land surface albedo, resource distribution, and many other key factors that…
Urban metabolism is an active field of research that deals with the estimation of emissions and resource consumption from urban regions. The analysis could be carried out through a manual surveyor by the implementation of elegant machine…
Sustainability in high performance computing (HPC) is a major challenge not only for HPC centers and their users, but also for society as the climate goals become stricter. A lot of effort went into reducing the energy consumption of…
The analytical prediction of building energy performance in residential buildings based on the heat losses of its individual envelope components is a challenging task. It is worth noting that this field is still in its infancy, with…
Building Information Modeling (BIM) describes a central data pool covering the entire life cycle of a construction project. Similarly, Building Energy Modeling (BEM) describes the process of using a 3D representation of a building as a…
Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) are vital for enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in urban planning. However, data scarcity often challenges their validation, particularly the lack of hourly measured data and the variety of…
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