Data-driven Urban Energy Simulation (DUE-S): A framework for integrating engineering simulation and machine learning methods in a multi-scale urban energy …

A Nutkiewicz, Z Yang, RK Jain - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The world is rapidly urbanizing, and the energy intensive built environment is becoming
increasingly responsible for the world's energy consumption and associated environmental …

Exploring the influence of urban context on building energy retrofit performance: A hybrid simulation and data-driven approach

A Nutkiewicz, B Choi, RK Jain - Advances in Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Cities are an integral part to meeting the world's sustainable energy goals. Specifically,
retrofits have been implemented to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions …

Ten questions on urban building energy modeling

T Hong, Y Chen, X Luo, N Luo, SH Lee - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

SynCity: Using open data to create a synthetic city of hourly building energy estimates by integrating data-driven and physics-based methods

J Roth, A Martin, C Miller, RK Jain - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Cities officials are increasingly interested in understanding spatial and temporal energy
patterns of the built environment to facilitate their city's transition to a low-carbon future. In …

URBANopt: An open-source software development kit for community and urban district energy modeling

R El Kontar, B Polly, T Charan, K Fleming, N Moore… - 2020 - osti.gov
Urban building modeling tools are developing rapidly; these tools use emerging simulation
workflows for specific urban environmental design tasks, such as assessing the impacts of …

Urban energy use modeling methods and tools: A review and an outlook

N Abbasabadi, M Ashayeri - Building and environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban energy use modeling is important for understanding and managing energy
performance in cities. However, the existing methods and tools have limitations in …

TEASER: an open tool for urban energy modelling of building stocks

P Remmen, M Lauster, M Mans, M Fuchs… - Journal of Building …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The energy supply of buildings in urban contexts is undergoing significant changes. The
increase of renewable sources for electrical and thermal energy generation will require …

[HTML][HTML] Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis

U Ali, MH Shamsi, C Hoare, E Mangina… - Energy and buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The world has witnessed a significant population shift to urban areas over the past few
decades. Urban areas account for about two-thirds of the world's total primary energy …

Data driven approaches for prediction of building energy consumption at urban level

G Tardioli, R Kerrigan, M Oates, OD James, D Finn - Energy Procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
The ability to predict building energy consumption in an urban environment context, using a
variety of performance metrics for different building categories and granularities, across …

An integrated data-driven framework for urban energy use modeling (UEUM)

N Abbasabadi, M Ashayeri, R Azari, B Stephens… - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Many urban energy use modeling tools and methods have been developed to understand
energy use in cities, but often have limitations in aggregating across multiple scales and end …