A simplified urban building energy model to support early-stage energy plans

The latest attempts in determining the spatiotemporal patterns of energy use building sector have led to development a new set tools referred as “urban models” (UBEMs). Due high level complexity, computation cost UBEMs risks becoming impractically large. As substitution for complex models, this study, using simplified steady-state method calculating performance buildings, more computationally efficient UBEM is proposed. developed model uses available information buildings from open datasets, translates them into physical and, finally, estimates desired spatial and temporal resolutions. A comparison with an advanced UBEM, around simulation software EnergyPlus, proves that suggested performs within acceptable range accuracy. Furthermore, model, can improve considerably, hours only few seconds. By validating results against measured Swedish certificate (EPC) database, it be also seen MAPE does not go higher than 31%.