Conference
Proceedings of uSim Conference 2020
Proceedings of the second IBPSA-Scotland Conference uSIM2020 Urban Energy Simulation
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. 12 November, 2020
Keynote 1Building Performance Simulation: Challenges and opportunities for IBPSA in a changing world?
Prof Lori McElroy (University of Strathclyde and IBPSA)
Intelligent Community Lifecycle
Veda Baliga (IES)
List of topics
- Parallel A1: Communities
- Parallel A2: Future stock modelling
- Parallel A3: Modelling at scale
- Parallel B1: Big Data
- Parallel B2: Applications and case-studies
- Parallel B3: Software developments
Parallel A1: Communities
Assessing residential retrofit measures to reduce the risk of fuel poverty: A modelling approach at community scale | ![]() |
Paraskevi Vatougiou, David Jenkins, Peter McCallum | |
Grounding urban energy tools in the lived experiences of the urban poor – a case for incorporating participatory methods in urban building energy models | ![]() |
Pamela Jane Fennell, Julia Tomei, Rita Consuela Lambert | |
Study on the effect of electric vehicle in smart community energy management | ![]() |
Monica Gondokusuma, Yuki Kitagawa, Ayumu Sawamura, Yoshiyuki Shimoda | |
System of statistical approaches for community energy modelling | ![]() |
Sandhya Patidar, David Jenkins, Andrew Peacock, Kumar Biswajit Debnath, Peter McCallum | |
Thermally activated building systems for nearly zero energy communities: Influence of the solar thermal heat generation | ![]() |
Tillman Gauer, Matthias Pahn |
Parallel A2: Future stock modelling
15 Computational efficiencies and predication accuracy of a physics-based building energy simulation tool for urban energy analysis | ![]() |
Richard Charles Johnson, Mohammad Royapoor, Sara Walker | |
Developing a 3D geometry for urban energy modelling of Indian cities | ![]() |
Kartikay Sharma, Rajan Rawal, Pamela Fennel, Anmol Mathur, Paul Ruyssevelt, Dru Crawley, Ivan Korolija | |
Building energy flexibility provision via optimal thermal energy management | ![]() |
Ilaria Salerno, Miguel F. Anjos, Kenneth McKinnon, Juan A. Gómez-Herrera | |
Potential macro-economic benefits of optimizing building renovation roadmaps towards 2050 on a city scale: A Belgian case study | ![]() |
Glenn Reynders, Ina De Jaeger, Guillermo Borragán Pedraz | |
Towards bottom-up modelling of the electricity demand of Huntly in 2030 | ![]() |
Ryan Gilmour, Sebastian Michalski, Jim O’Donnell, Desen Kirli |
Parallel A3: Modelling at scale
Incorporating sociodemographic constraints in multi-objective building stock retrofit optimization | ![]() |
Vincenzo A. Rossi, Bianca Howard, Jonathan A. Wright | |
Investigating the impact of construction year on the urban-scale energy flexibility potential of single-family houses | ![]() |
Rasmus Elbæk Hedegaard, Martin Heine Kristensen, Steffen Petersen | |
Limiting energy consumption in Ahmedabad’s central business district using urban energy modelling | ![]() |
Nikhil Singh Yaduvanshi, Rajan Rawal, Anmol Mathur | |
Balancing accuracy and computation burden – an evaluation of different sensitivity analysis methods for urban scale building energy models | ![]() |
Pamela Jane Fennell, Paul Anthony Ruyssevelt, Ivan Korolija |
Parallel B1: Big Data
Modelling domestic heat electrification | ![]() |
Joey Aoun, Carlos Calderon | |
Short-term forecasting of residential electricity demand using CNN-LSTM | ![]() |
Ashkan Lotfipoor, Sandhya Patidar, David Jenkins | |
Urban data imputation using multi-output multi-class classification | ![]() |
Pascal Schetelat, Lucie Lefort, Nicolas Delgado | |
Development of a methodology of validation for urban building energy models and application to French residential consumption | ![]() |
Lucie Lefort, Romain Bonabe de Rougé, Pascal Schetelat, Thomas Berthou, Peter Riederer, Bruno Duplessis, Eric Peirano |
Parallel B2: Applications and case-studies
Estimating macroscopic occupant behavior with an end-use simulation model and smart meter data | ![]() |
Yusuke Kurokawa, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Aiko Ikeda | |
Including building energy flexibility as an asset in system-wide district heating optimization models | ![]() |
Steffen Petersen, Rasmus Elbæk Hedegaard, Janus Tougaard, Tommy Mølbak | |
Mapping the technical potential and cost effectiveness of energy retrofits in Oxfordshire | ![]() |
Rajat Gupta, Matt Gregg | |
Reproducing of energy use differences among households in national residential sector by simulation model | ![]() |
Haruka Matoba, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Minami Sugiyama, Ryuya Nishimoto, Ayako Taniguchi-Matsuoka, Yohei Yamaguchi | |
Towards a smart community evaluation and implementation toolkit – low-cost mini-district predictive controls with flexible tariffs | ![]() |
Graeme Flett, Andrew Lyden, Paul Tuohy |
Parallel B3: Software developments
The efforts towards development of an energy optimization dynamic simulation tool | ![]() |
Sahar Mirzaie, Mahnameh Taheri, Stephen Oliver, Fernando Gielow, Alan Wegienka | |
Use of multi-scale dynamic simulation towards the creation of positive energy blocks | ![]() |
Lorenzo De Donatis, Olivier Neu, Ruth Kerrigan, Nick Purshouse | |
Assessing the ability of roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) canopies to support electric vehicle (EV) charging in cities | ![]() |
Nick Kelly, John Allison, Graeme Flett, Jon Hand | |
Control event matrices for stochastic heating use in urban-scale energy simulations | ![]() |
Peter McCallum, David Jenkins, Paraskevi Vatougiou |