Many computational approaches exist to estimate heating and cooling energy demand of
buildings at city scale, but few existing models can explicitly consider every buildings of an …

The performance gap of buildings is commonly defined as the difference between the
performance value predicted in the design stage and that measured in the post-occupancy …

Highlights•A novel Productive Architectural Surface System (PASS) is proposed.•Productive
double-skin facade (PDSF) was constructed based on PASS.•The daylighting performance …

Despite numerous studies on computerised simulations for analysing the relationship
between the physical characteristics of an urban environment and energy consumption in …

Urban building energy model (UBEM) is an important tool in coping with energy issues of
building sector. This paper focuses on an issue that the stock of heating, ventilation, and air …

Urban and building morphologies, usually determined at the design stage, have been
proven as important determinants of energy usage at later operational stages. However …

Urban block morphology is essential to the sustainable urban development at mesoscale.
The performance targets should be considered in urban block morphology design. This …

The impact of the urban form on the energy demand of buildings is difficult to quantify as,
usually, the mutual shading of buildings in urban settings is not included in dynamic building …

Despite inter-building longwave radiative exchanges playing an important role in
determining building energy and environmental performance, simulation tools (eg …

The rationalization of energy at the district scale requires the development of numerical tools
capable of simulating not only the energy demand, but also energy loads at such a scale …