M.A. Mosteiro Romero
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In a global context of increasing flexibility in the way workplaces and the districts in which they are located are used, there is a need for occupant-driven approaches to plan urban energy systems. Several authors have suggested the use of agent-based models (ABM) of building ...
The expansion of solar energy in high density cities highlights the crucial need for optimal capacity planning in building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems. However, uncertainties present significant challenges for robust planning in these systems. Addressing this challenge
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With the increasing stock of ageing infrastructure and resource constraints in Singapore, related risks and carbon emissions can be mitigated through long-term resilience planning, automated building inspection, and effective maintenance. Sustainable actions are needed to maintai
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Bottom-Up Approach for Creating an Urban Digital Twin Platform and Use Cases
A City Energy System Dataset Visualisation And Query
Smart city initiatives have been a driving force for city-level dataset collection and the development of data-driven applications that benefit effective city management. There is a need to demonstrate use cases for effective city management using the available dataset. Urban Dig
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Elastic buildings
Calibrated district-scale simulation of occupant-flexible campus operation for hybrid work optimization
Before 2020, the way occupants utilized the built environment had been changing slowly towards scenarios in which occupants have more choice and flexibility in where and how they work. The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this phenomenon rapidly through lockdowns and hybrid w
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The widespread availability of open datasets in urban areas is transforming how urban energy systems are planned, simulated, and visualized. Urban energy models, however, require an understanding of urban dwellers, as their activities create the demands for energy in buildings. I
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From Personal Comfort to District Performance
Using Smartwatch and WiFi Data for Occupant-Driven Operation
This work proposes the use of a data-driven, agent-based model of building occupants’ activities and thermal comfort in an urban university campus in order to assess how district operation strategies can be leveraged to support the transition to flexible work arrangements. The re
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Towards occupant-driven district energy system operation
A digital twin platform for energy resilience and occupant well-being
This paper presents a digital twin of a university campus in Singapore as a demonstrator for a digital-twin enabled approach to district energy resilience. This paper focuses mainly on the development of the building energy and occupancy models in the digital twin, which are comp
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Digital Twin-Based Resilience Evaluation of District-Scale Archetypes
A COVID-19 Scenario Case Study Using a University Campus Pilot
District-scale energy demand models can be powerful tools for understanding interactions in complex urban areas and optimising energy systems in new developments. The process of coupling characteristics of urban environments with simulation software to achieve accurate results is
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Input uncertainty is one of the major obstacles urban building energy models (UBEM) must tackle. The aim of this paper was to quantify the effects of two of the main sources of stochastic uncertainty, namely building occupants and urban microclimate, on electrical and thermal sup
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District-scale building energy models can be a powerful tool for the integration of renewable energy sources and efficiency measures in urban areas. One key limitation of these models, however, has been their rather simplified treatment of building occupants. Since it is their ac
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Rapid urbanization and densification processes are changing microclimatic environments in cities around the world. Even though previous studies have demonstrated the impact of urban microclimate on space cooling and heating demand, modeling tools employed to support the design pr
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District-scale lake water free cooling in Zurich, Switzerland
System performance simulation and techno-economic feasibility
Lake water district cooling systems have been shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in several cases, including projects in heating-dominated climates. Due to the highly cooling-intensive functions in the Hochschulquartier area in Zurich, Switzerland, a district-scale free coo
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In the implementation of Energy Transition Strategies within urban (re)development projects, processes of spatial negotiation between functional needs (for buildings and transportation infrastructure) and energy solutions able to meet the energy performative targets have been obs
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District-scale energy demand modeling and urban microclimate
A case study in the Netherlands
District-scale energy demand models are powerful tools to understand complex urban areas, however these models generally use average weather data from rural locations, thus overlooking the effects of the urban context on the local climate. In order to analyze the effects of ur ...
SPACERGY builds upon the need for planning authorities to develop new models to implement energy transition strategies in the urban environment, departing from the exploitation or reciprocity between space and energy systems. Several policies have been made by each EU nation, but
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Urban Microclimate and Energy Performance
An Integrated Simulation Method
In the design practice simulation methods are already widely used to support the understanding of energy performance and to help designers in reducing energy demand during the design process. However, energy simulation tools are largely limited to the individual building level, a
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Urban Building Energy Models are powerful tools for estimating future states of energy consumption and energy generation in buildings. Due to the complexity of these systems, large amounts of data are required, which are often incomplete or unavailable. Through the implementation
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Relative importance of electricity sources and construction practices in residential buildings
A Swiss-US comparison of energy related life-cycle impacts
Comparisons of buildings in similar climates built in accordance with different regional construction practices and building rating systems can provide useful insights in sustainable design practices. The objectives of this study were: (1) to perform energy related life cycle ass
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