District-aware Building Energy Performance simulation model generation from GIS and BIM data

The assessment of district retrofit scenarios performed by the online platform OptEEmAL, requires an automatic and district-aware building energy performance simulation model generation operation, applied on certain buildings of interest. Such operation involves fusion of BIM, GIS and other data, under a common scheme suitable for building energy performance simulations and transformation of the fused data into appropriate simulation input data files. The above processes, which should conform to certain data quality conditions, are performed by data checking and semantic enrichment software tools, which are described in detail and demonstrated on specific building and district examples