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Developing A Landscape Of Urban Building Energy Use With Improved Spatiotemporal Representations In A Cool-Humid Climate

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Calibration, CityBEUM, High spatiotemporal resolution, Urban building energy use

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Building and Environment

Volume

136

First Page

107

Last Page

117

Abstract

Urban buildings account for up to 75% of total energy use in the United States (U.S.). Understanding urban building energy use is important for developing feasible options to mitigate energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, an improved bottom-up building energy use model, named City Building Energy Use Model (CityBEUM), was developed to estimate building energy use for all buildings in Polk County, Iowa, U.S. First, 28 commercial and 6 residential building prototypes were designed by combining Assessor's parcel data and building footprint data. Then, the EnergyPlus in the CityBEUM was calibrated for all building prototypes using the U.S. Energy Information Administration's survey data, monthly utility meter data, and actual weather data. Finally, spatial and temporal patterns of building energy use in the study area were estimated using the CityBEUM. Results indicate that the spatial variation of building energy use in the study area can be captured using the CityBEUM. With the monthly-calibrated model, the temporal pattern of urban building energy use can be well represented. The comparison of building energy use using the Typical Meteorological Year and actual weather data demonstrates the importance of using actual weather data in building energy modeling for an improved temporal representation.

Original Publication Date

5-15-2018

DOI of published version

10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.03.036

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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