Urban geometry, building energy consumption and pedestrian mobility: An integrated modeling approach

Tsai, I-Tsung; Ghazal, Sarah

doi:10.1109/icite.2017.8056934

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“…Understanding the city as a crossdepartmental integrated system enables planners to address critical issues in urban development, such as energy resiliency in a climate change, demand response, innovative mobility, reducing urban sprawl, and efficient management of urban services. It is an important step to represent and simulate the interrelationships between urban systems at an urban scale, which includes the interaction between building energy models, urban climate and microclimate models, transportation models, and socioeconomic models (Tsai and Ghazal, 2017). Co-simulation between models is necessary to understand the impact of systems interacting with each other in real time.…”

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“…Integrated planning also involves considering urban building energy efficiency along with urban morphology and urban mobility. Metropolitan planners are facing increasingly complex issues in modeling interactions between the built environment and multimodal transportation systems (Tsai and Ghazal, 2017). Some pioneering research has demonstrated the potential for gaining the ability to model urban systems across simulated land use, travel demands, traffic flow, and building energy consumption, to understand district power consumption and pollutant emissions.…”

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Ten questions on urban building energy modeling

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Luo

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Building and Environment

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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 emissions in buildings through energy conservation and efficiency improvements. Computational tools empowered with rich urban datasets can model performance of buildings at the urban scale to provide quantitative insights for stakeholders and inform their decision making on urban energy planning, as well as building energy retrofits at scale, to achieve efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of urban buildings. Designing and operating urban buildings as a group (from a city block to a district to an entire city) rather than as single individuals requires simulation and optimization to account for interactions among buildings and between buildings and their surrounding urban environment, and for district energy systems serving multiple buildings with diverse thermal loads across space and time. When hundreds or more buildings are involved in typical urban building energy modeling (UBEM) to estimate annual energy demand, evaluate design or retrofit options, and quantify impacts of extreme weather events or climate change, it is crucial to integrate urban datasets and UBEM tools in a seamless automatic workflow with cloud or high-performance computing for users including urban planners, designers and researchers. This paper presents ten questions that highlight significant UBEM research and applications. The proposed answers aim to stimulate discussion and provide insights into the current and future research on UBEM, and more importantly, to inspire new and important questions from young researchers in the field.

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confidence: 99%