SimStadt, a new workflow-driven urban energy simulation platform for CityGML city models

Nouvel, Romain; Brassel, Kai-Holger; Bruse, Marcel; Duminil, Éric; Coors, Volker; Eicker, Ursula; Robinson, Darren

doi:10.5075/epfl-cisbat2015-889-894

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“…The thermal model of CitySim is based on an equivalent electrical circuit that allows considering also subspaces in buildings, linking them through separating walls' conductance. In 2013, SimStadt [52] was developed as an urban energy simulation platform to support the planning of the energy transition at the urban scale. It allows the fast creation of evaluation scenarios, using refurbishment rates (percentage of floor area per year), time horizon and priority indexes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Ferrando

Causone

Hong

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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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 scenarios to better manage and design cities, and numerous methodologies and tools have been developed. Among them, Urban Building Energy Modelling (UBEM) tools allow the energy simulation of buildings at large scales. Choosing an appropriate UBEM tool, balancing the level of complexity, accuracy, usability, and computing needs, remains a challenge for users. The review focuses on the main bottom-up physics-based UBEM tools, comparing them from a user-oriented perspective. Five categories are used: (i) the required inputs, (ii) the reported outputs, (iii) the exploited workflow, (iv) the applicability of each tool, and (v) the potential users. Moreover, a critical discussion is proposed, focusing on interests and trends in research and development. The results highlighted major differences between UBEM tools that must be considered to choose the proper one for an application. Barriers of adoption of UBEM tools include the needs of a standardized ontology, a common threedimensional city model, a standard procedure to collect data, and a standard set of test cases. This feeds into future development of UBEM tools to support cities' sustainability goals.

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Section: Bottom-up Physics-based Ubem Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Ferrando

Causone

Hong

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

180

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Towards Integration of Spatial Context in Building Energy Demand Assessment Supported by CityGML Energy Extension

Doodman

Mostafavi

Sengupta

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Towards an Agent-based Simulation of Building Stock Development for the City of Hamburg

Preisler

Dethlefs

Renz

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-In the context of European climate goals municipalities have an increasing interest in an accurate estimation of current and future energy demand in buildings, as the domestic energy consumption is one of the major adjusting screws for the reduction of electrical and thermal energy consumption, whereas the demand for space heating has the highest impact. As part of the ongoing GEWISS project it is planned to create a geographical information system (GIS) to visualize domestic and industrial heat consumption in the city of Hamburg (Germany) to support political decision making by linking the development of urban areas and the district heating grid. Additionally, it is planned to provide simulation capabilities to offer planning assistance for future development. This paper will present the underlying agent-based simulation system that is used to simulate the development of the building stock. Thereby, the simulation approach and first results regarding the development of the renovation state of the building stock based on a study about the renovation behavior of different types of home-owners of detached and terraced houses will be presented.

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SimStadt, a new workflow-driven urban energy simulation platform for CityGML city models

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

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

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

Towards Integration of Spatial Context in Building Energy Demand Assessment Supported by CityGML Energy Extension

Towards an Agent-based Simulation of Building Stock Development for the City of Hamburg

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