Conference
Proceedings of uSim Conference 2024
uSIM2024 -Shaping Net Zero Policies with Building Simulation
The 4th IBPSA-Scotland Conference, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, 25 November 2024
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Proc. ISBN: 978-1-914241-83-3
Publisher: University of Strathclyde
List of topics
- Building simulation at scale
- Built environment and policy landscape
- Multi-domain simulation for sustainable cities & communities
- Supporting policy: models, tools, metrics
- Urban energy
- Urban energy
Building simulation at scale
Built environment and policy landscape
| Forecasting the impacts of the electrification of heat, cooling and mobility in future net zero urban areas |  |
| Nick Kelly, Graeme Flett, Mohamad Rida | |
| Optimizing energy communities design and sizing for battery operation and energy trading | |
| Laura Zabala Urrutia, Lucas Porto Echave-Susaeta, Jesus Febres Pascual, Raymond Sterling Garay Shangtong, Jessica Dassow, Ian Molnar, Zoe Shipton | |
| Modelling of Mine Shaft Thermal Energy Storage (MSTES) for District Heating (DH) and Grid Balancing | |
| Win Eng Ewe, Paul Tuohy, Graeme Flett, Stephanie Flude, Neil Burnside, Indrani Mukherjee, Huachuan Wang | |
| Quantifying resilience at scale using EnergyPlus and Modelica | |
| Scott Bucking, Milad Rostami, Eric Ho | |
| Geospatial analysis as a tool for efficient energy planning | |
| Javier Sandoval Bustamante, Pardis Sheikhzadehbaboli, Sanober Khattak, Seungbong Lee, Christopher Jackson | |
| Addressing data scarcity in UBEM validation: application of survey sampling techniques | |
| Chunxiao Wang, Bruno Duplessis, Eric Peirano, Pascal Schetelat, Peter Riederer | |
Multi-domain simulation for sustainable cities & communities
| Introducing the ZEN KPI tool: a solution for reporting and visualizing performance in zero emission neighbourhoods | |
| Shabnam Homaei, Marianne Rose Kjendseth | |
| The spatial logic of e-mobility commutes within urban areas | |
| Diego Altafini, Camilla Pezzica, Andrei Gagarin, Madlen Williams, James Thomas, Sam Gunner, Theo Tryfonas | |
| Zero carbon neighbourhoods: creating non-complex information from complex data | |
| F. Pelin Ekdi, Nick Kelly, Lori McElroy, Jonathan McQuillan, Tim Sharpe, Rowena Statt | |
| Critical errors in building simulation to support real-world zero-carbon energy buildings : a critical reflection | |
| Jesus Lizana | |
Supporting policy: models, tools, metrics
| Enhancing urban sustainability through optimized pv/fuel cell/battery hybrid energy system operations in smart communities | |
| Tomohiro Takahashi, Masataka Yuasa, Hideaki Uchida, Yohei Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Shimoda | |
| Impact of changes in lifestyle due to digitalization on urban energy consumption | |
| Sari Ishihara, Yohei Yamaguchi, Takumi Nishijima, Toshiki Nakanishi, Yoshiyuki Shimoda | |
| EV charging control using coupled simulation of urban traffic and power distribution system in a real-world area | |
| Masato Obinata, Hideaki Uchida, Shinya Yoshizawa, Tomoki Shigematsu, Yohei Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Yoshifumi Ikemoto, Masahiro Minami, Keiichi Takeda | |
| Reducing energy consumption in urban office buildings with localised heating and heating set-point temperature reductions | |
| Mohamad Rida, Nick Kelly | |
Urban energy
| Clustering household electricity and gas load profiles in the UK using smart meter and survey data | |
| Zeynep Duygu Tekler | |
| Clustering heat pump efficiency: the role of urban building, demographic and operational factors | |
| Chakron Dechkrut, Sandhya Patidar, Andrew Peacock | |
| Exploring potential approaches for integrating microclimate-sensitive design methods within the BIM environment | |
| Lucia Campos-Rosa, Carlos Rivera-Gomez, Jesus Lizana, Carmen Galan-Marin | |
| Feasibility of electricity generation from abandoned oil well and pv in the Global South | |
| Fidelis Usman, Nicolas Kelly | |
Urban energy
| The utilization of building simulation results as input data for building level digital shadows and system level digital twins | |
| Khaleel Odeh, Lori McElroy, Pieter de Wilde | |
| Towards smart despatch of building heating and cooling using artificial intelligence | |
| Qingyuan Wang, Ruosi Zhang, Floris Bierkens, Michael Short, Oleksiy V. Klymenko | |
| Identifying dominant factors of domestic thermal demand response using local sensitivity analysis of multiple flexibility metrics | |
| George Dawes, Arash Beizaee, Steven Firth | |
| Implementation of ground response functions in TRNSYS for faster ground coupling calculations | |
| Michaël Kummert, Kato Vanroy, Bruno Marcotte, Adam Wills, Iain Macdonald | |