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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"urban building"”.
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Accelerating Urban Building Energy Modeling
… and urgent decarbonization goals. In the building sector, urban building energy models (UBEMs) have become a valuable tool for jurisdictions to develop evidence-based retrofitting policies, but dynamically exploring solutions is hampered by the computational expense and organizational …
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Building archetype calibration for effective urban building energy modeling
… Given the relevance of energy use in buildings, such plans introduce a variety of efficiency and supply planning strategies ranging from the scale of buildings, to full districts. Their implementation requires information about current building energy demands, and how these demands, …
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Urban building energy modeling as a dynamic tool for sustainability planning
… meet these objectives. This thesis explores how urban building energy modeling (UBEM) can be utilized to develop high-impact community-led energy efficiency programs. UBEM is a recently developed type of bottom-up energy modeling that presents a number of advantages over past urban energy …
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Meeting A Community’s Emissions Reduction Targets Using Urban Building Energy Modeling
… This paper lays out a six-step process using urban building energy modeling to identify a combination of building energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy deployment strategies that meet emissions goals. The process involves key decision makers in each municipality working with an …
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Using Urban Building Energy Modeling to Develop Carbon Reduction Pathways for Cities
… to democratize and facilitate the wider use of urban building energy models in cities and municipalities. First, key applications and use cases of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) are identified, and a minimum viable UBEM is introduced for each use case. This framework streamlines …
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Urban Building Networks' Thermal-Energy Dynamics: Exploring, Mitigating, and Optimizing Inter-Building Effects
… to rapidly growing global energy expenditures, urban buildings are often designed and operated inefficiently despite their significant contributions to carbon emissions, triggering environmental deterioration locally and worldwide. Moreover, ongoing industrialization and urbanization pose …
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Deriving archetype templates for urban building energy models based on measured monthly energy use
Interest in urban energy modeling has grown among planners and policy-makers as more and more municipalities set targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Urban-scale building energy models can help evaluate the efficiency of proposed district designs, consequences of building retrofit …
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Auto-calibrated urban building energy models as continuous planning tools for greenhouse gas emissions management
… greenhouse gas emissions associated with their buildings' energy use, owners frequently rely on building energy models that are calibrated to existing conditions for evaluation of potential energy efficiency retrofits. Development of such calibrated models requires the estimation of a series of …
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Urban building energy modeling and retrofit design as a means to inform effective public policy : Boston case study
Residential buildings use upwards of 20% of the total energy consumed annually in the United States. This, coupled with the desire to reduce overall utility costs and improve occupant comfort on the part of residents, places cities, as the main catalyst for local energy policy, at the forefront of …
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Contextualism and fragmentation : a dualistic guideline to the design of urban architecture
… in understanding the process of making an urban building in a given context. How can one design a new urban building who might effectively exist in a state of identifiable isolation while also has the adequate physical, social, and symbolic connection to the context at large? For this …
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Graphical SLAM for urban UAV navigation
… require UAVs to operate in densely populated urban environments. In these environments, buildings and structures reflect and block GPS signals, leading to multipath and low satellite visibility. These factors create GPS-challenged environments that result in large errors in UAV positioning or …
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Qualitatitive description : light in the urban environment
… to the tacit understanding shared by architects. Buildings have been pubicly regulated to allow for light to the street throughout history. Qualitative description may offer the public a means of oversight and insight which could create a closer match between the design intention of proposed …
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Climatic design in the city : a residential building in Athens
… design principles in a densely populated urban environment. For illustrative purposes. a typical multi-story residential building in downtown Athens. Greece. will be used as a case study. Its goal is to use the rich and ever increasing vocabulary of climatic design in order to enhance the …
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Cybergis-enabled remote sensing data analytics for deep learning of landscape patterns and dynamics
… an object-oriented change detection strategy for urban building change detection using deep learning. The third study develops a deep learning model for accurate hydrological streamline detection using LiDAR, which has paved a new way of harnessing LiDAR data to map landscape patterns and dynamics …
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Real-time Evaluation of Vision-based Navigation for Autonomous Landing of a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a Non-cooperative Environment
… range from remote mountainous regions to an urban building rooftop or a cluttered parking lot. The research of this thesis builds upon an approach that was initiated at NASA Ames Research Center to advance technology in the landing phase of RUAV operations. The approach consists of applying …
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Physics-based Estimates of Structural Material Quantities for Urban-level Embodied Carbon Assessment in Buildings
… targets. The world population growth and rapid urbanization rate add to the urgency of this challenge. In fact, buildings account for about 40% of all energy and carbon emissions from operations and materials’ production and construction processes. More specifically, buildings’ structural …
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways
… their part, often without a concrete plan. With buildings accounting for 40% of total global emissions, building retrofits are a key component to these pathways to zero carbon. Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) research efforts have developed physics-based decision-making tools to define …
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Parameterizing land use planning : deploying quantitative analysis methods in the practice of city planning
… need to consider the multiple components of the urban system which are intertwined and connected in a complex network, and cannot be studied independently. While cities were extensively studied as complex adaptive systems over the last 50 years, showing universal patterns across countries, …
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The Significance of Spaciousness: an investigation of spaciousness in the context of the residential yard
… is related to the present densification of the urban environment in many towns and cities. Research on densification is primarily concerned with the link between urban form and sustainable development. The point of departure of this thesis is to consider what a denser housing environment will …
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Energy Performance Assessment of Building Stocks - Enhancing Quality Data Flows for Urban Energy Analysis
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