Case Study of Energy Performance Analyses on Different Scales

AbstractBridging the gap between sustainable buildings and a sustainable city requires well-suited approaches. Dynamic building thermal simulation may be used for scenario analyses of different measures helping the city becoming a sustainable city. Automation, by reducing the expense and tackling the complexity associated with the building modeling, can serve this purpose. This paper presents a prototypical building model generation tool chain which automatically generates building models for thermal simulation on different scales, and considers the shading effects of neighboring buildings. To outline the benefits of this methodology, a case study has been performed on a small district