Modelling the built environment at an urban scale—Energy and health impacts in relation to housing

A methodology for predicting the energy performance and indoor thermal comfort of residential stocks on the neighbourhood and city scales. A case study in Spain

“…The methodology presented here combined different technologies that enriched the accuracy of the work. (Shorrock and Dunster, 1997) • Johnston et al (2005) • UKDCM (Boardman, 2007) • DECarb (Natarajan and Levermore, 2007) • • • EEP (Jones et al, 2007) • • • CDEM (Firth et al, 2010) • • DECM (Cheng and Steemers, 2011) • VerbCO2M (Hens et al, 2001) • • TABULA (Dascalaki et al, 2011) • The methodology is conceived as a generic multi-staged methodology that can be replicated in the other neighbourhoods of the analysed city, or in any other city, by implementing the steps described herein. It has also been defined as a lively method that can be continuously updated with the addition of new variables or covariates in order to investigate other aspects and their relationship with building energy performance.…”

“…The referred studies are reported in Table 2 and classified into energy assessment variables and influential aspects on the energy performance of building stocks, which resulted in a set of response variables and covariates, respectively. (2000) • (Shorrock and Dunster, 1997) • (Boardman, 2007) • DECarb (Natarajan and Levermore, 2007) • • • EEP (Jones et al, 2007) • (Firth et al, 2010) • • • • DECM (Cheng and Steemers, 2011) • (Florio and Teissier, 2015) • • Fonseca and Schlueter (2015) • (Aksoezen et al, 2015) • • ECCABS (Mata et al, 2013) •…”

Review on stochastic modeling methods for building stock energy prediction

“…In the UK, several residential building stock models used BREDEM (building research establishment domestic energy model) (Anderson et al 1985) as a core calculation engine for single houses to predict energy use for each archetype (Shorrock and Dunster 1997;Jones et al 2000Jones et al , 2007Johnston 2003;Boardman et al 2005;Boardman 2007;Natarajan and Levermore 2007a,b;Firth et al 2010). More detailed comparisons of UK models were discussed in Kavgic's review (Kavgic et al 2010) and Oladokun's review (Oladokun and Odesola 2015).…”

Assessing Energy Improvement Potential from Efficiency and Renewable Interventions at Neighborhood Level

“…In addition, all models above except for EEP rely on standard archetype models of dwellings which are limited in number. EEP tried to overcome this challenge through drive-through survey of dwellings to gather information, however, survey of 55,000 dwellings in Neath Port Talbot District Borough Council required 18 person months, which is hugely time consuming (Jones et al 2007). …”