# Building Simulation 2025: Day 1 Get ready for [BS2025](https://bs2025.org/), it's shaping up to be massive! And this incredible list of 176 papers is just a taste of Day 1's content. Prepare to dive deep into crucial topics like advanced energy modelling, urban climate resilience, lifecycle carbon analysis, and cutting-edge AI-driven design. Discover innovative approaches to smart systems, renewable energy, and data-driven simulations that are genuinely shaping tomorrow's built environment. Your next big insight is undoubtedly waiting among these pioneering presentations. ## Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation * Future Overheating Risks in Buildings complying with current Codes * Urban heat resilience evaluation and climate-responsive urban design for climate change adaptation * Assessing the impact of future climate on building energy performance with downscaled weather data in Korea * Energy-efficient building spatial layout strategies under future climate change scenarios * Bio-retrofit: Potential of mycelium-based composites to future-proof India and Australia’s residential buildings against extreme climate events post-2040 * Divergent: Passive buildings provide thermal resilience in a dystopian warming climate. * Embodied carbon emissions of the residential building stock in the united states and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies * Towards a low-carbon countryside: Lifecycle embedded carbon emission analysis and reduction recommendations for farmhouses in Ningbo * Predicting Energy Demand discrepancies in building simulation under climate change for thermally sensitive mental health care environments * How much will future climate change affect building retrofits for energy equity? * Urban climate control strategies and buildings’ retrofitting: a simulation study in the UNESCO heritage site of Valparaiso, Chile * Building for the Future – considering future weather and extremes in assessing building energy efficiency * Modeling the impact of diverse extreme climate scenarios on residential buildings with renewable energy and storage in cold regions: A techno-economic analysis * Single family residence energy efficiency impacts on emissions reduction and energy saving life cycle analysis * Estimating life-cycle carbon mitigation potential of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) facade at the city scale * Techno-economic and environmental feasibility study of non-cloud based Smart Dual Fuel Switching System (SDFSS) for hybrid space heating in cold climates * How optimal building decarbonization pathways differ when considering energy burden and job creation * Steering Building Design in India towards net zero with a Whole-Building Carbon Protocol * Optimizing a latent heat energy storage tank for a solar collector system: moving towards zero carbon. * Alternative pathway for a nearly zero emission building stock in 2050 * ZEB retrofit planning methodology for existing office buildings using building energy simulation * Exploring the energy and CO2 emissions implications of climate-responsive design strategies applied to residential dwellings in Latin America ## Energy Efficiency and Sustainability * IFC-based semiautomated building energy model creation and simplification for Building Energy Simulations * Building performance analysis at the design stage: A study into the challenges of BIM and BEM integration in the Swedish AEC industry * Building Information Model (BIM) and Life Cycle Analysis tools: A comparative study with specialized software for environmental performance of buildings * Comparative analysis of cost-benefit quantification methods for equitable resource allocation in building stock decarbonization: A case study of a small US municipality * Dynamic factors in life cycle assessment: systematic review and categorization * Carbon emissions during the design and construction phases of public works: a case study of council housing in Taiwan * Multi-objective optimization design of windows combining granular aerogel glazing and double glazing systems * Integrating spatial proximity analysis and explainable machine learning to evaluate building energy retrofit potential under urban heat island effects * Using EPPY scripts to enable automated building electrification modeling with flexibility and scalability * From correlation to causality: Heat pump control with field data using Double Machine Learning (DML) * Identification of simplified control strategies in multisource optimisation for electric demand flexibility in building energy management * A decision-making method based on economic and environmental life cycle analysis for sustainable controlled environment agriculture (CEA) design and operation * Using timber-based panels to retrofit old university buildings in Korea for carbon emission reduction: A comparative study using LCA and energy performance evaluation * Operational carbon impact of integrating alternative cooling systems and renewables in arid homes * Clarifying carbon reduction claims and pathways to their achievement using real-world buildings * Renewable energy communities in Sweden: a techno-economic analysis of single-owner, multiple-consumer building-level energy sharing * Design guidance for net zero energy mixed-use buildings in Seoul * RapidRate’s role in helping Australia move towards zero carbon homes * Activation strategies for decentralized booster heat pumps based on dynamic pricing models * Simultaneous heating and cooling in museums: evaluation of micro-encapsulated phase change slurry as a thermal storage medium for multi-purpose heat pumps * Modeling and integration of photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collectors in a fifth-generation district heating and cooling network * Verification of the accuracy of the Degree Day method using building simulation * A comparative study of residential building energy performance in Belgium utilizing three different solar panel configurations * A shadow-cost-based long-term model predictive controller for a solar-based district heating system with tank thermal energy storage * Advanced solar radiation decomposition model: utilizing Random Forest-Symbolic Regression across diverse climatic zones * Quantifying the compound impact of urban heat island and climate change on cuilding energy consumption in Nanjing’s traditional urban center * Developing building shape indexes at the city-scale for understanding building energy consumption * Shaving monthly peak load by overestimating future load in microgrid model predictive control * A knowledge graph-based performance evaluation framework for sustainable residential block design * Characterization of the building stock in the mountain environment: correlations between natural context, building geometry and energy performance * Practically feasible and novel approach for predicting electrical power demand of multiple dwellings using a digital tool in building services industry * A Q-Lattice and EnergyPlus coupled modelling approach to estimate HVAC energy consumption and natural ventilation usages * Adaptation of the heating curve for heating systems * Review of a dynamic simulation approach for heating system sizing * Development of a simulation tool to assess heat pump integration in Canadian homes * Optimization of cold climate air-air heat pump sizing using simulation data * Energy consumption pattern analysis of housing in warm-humid climate * Developing practical approaches and tools for optimizing zeb designs * Impact of Space Utilization on Energy Cost and Energy Performance of a nearly Zero-Emissions Office Building * Impact of refrigerant undercharge and overcharge faults on building indoor conditions and HVAC system performance during cooling seasons: Field measurements * Radiant floors as a feasible solution for residential heating and cooling: a simulation-based performance analysis * The impact of irregular days on machine learning predictions of office building load and corresponding optimization * Quantum approximate optimisation algorithm (QAOA) for surplus energy distribution in urban microgrids * Archetype generation for the district-scale Life Cycle Assessment of buildings * Coupling of multi-zone dynamic energy simulations with life cycle assessment for residential building renovation * Implementing Dynamo in IFC2Modelica framework for enhanced parametrization * Innovative Miscanthus-based materials * A data‐driven approach for simulating the energy performance of closed‐loop hydronic heating systems * Evaluating the Practical Energy Saving Potential of a Personal Cooling System in the Tropics * Simple Tool to Evaluate the Performance of Model Predictive Control of Space Heating in the Early Stages of Building Design * Energy performance assessment of climate adaptive building envelopes using shading masks * Thermo-bimetal responsive building skins: comparative analysis of self-actuated geometric patterning and user override on daylight and energy efficiency * Surrogate modeling of heat transfer in 3D-printed facades with active learning * A stable geometry transformation module from 3D geometry data to building energy model * A cross-scale normative encoding representation method for 3D building models suitable for graph neural networks * Building Performance Simulation of a semitransparent Trombe wall Coupled with a Latent Thermal Energy Storage * Variations in Operational Performance of an Occupant-Centric Design due to Uncertainties in Occupants and Building Operation * Simplifying decision-making in model-based co-design of building energy systems through automatically generated optimal controls * Prediction of internal pressure and door operation risk in high-rise buildings under time-varying external conditions ## Innovative Design Exploration and Industry Transformation * Using Large Multimodal Models (LMM) to digitalize scanned HVAC Schematics into Metadata Schemas for Buildings * A workflow for designing VR experiments for daylight and view-out studies using real-time stereoscopic videos * Exploring the consistency of UGR calculations, measurements, and evaluations * Exploring on evaluation of human response to indoor daylighting environment using UE5 virtual reality modelling: a pilot study * Data-driven assessment of daylight metrics for building visual environmental quality * Validation of multispectral simulation tools for predicting non-visual lighting metrics across diverse daylight scenarios * Comparative Analysis of Glare Indices in indoor Environments Affected by Reflected Sunlight * Comparative analysis of daylight, view, and visual privacy: a New York City case study * Including households’ comfort elasticities in model predictive controllers * BuildSysPro-IAQ : Impact of Energy systems in French residential buildings on IAQ and Energy Consumption * Assessing inter-sensor variability and calibration of low-cost IAQ sensors through co-location with reference devices * Depressurization risk assessment in multi-unit residential buildings using pressurized corridor ventilation systems * Experimental and simulated study on thermal environment of large-scale indoor spaces using radiant panel heating-cooling system * Analysis of the influence of CCT and Ra of common lighting sources on visual experience and energy efficiency * Evaluating front yard greenery for enhanced indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency * Performance comparison of lighting design objectives parameters based on calculation and simulation: case study of a pool hall and café * Lighting quality evaluation in underground public spaces — An integrated field and simulation study * Exploring energy implications in a mixed-mode building by linking air quality and occupant behaviour * Personal Comfort Models in shared spaces: a review of trends, challenges, and future directions * Machine learning-driven optimal control method for subway station VAC systems * A novel occupant-centric control framework for building to urban scale hybrid-energy simulation * Generation of synthetic load profiles for different typologies of residential users through metadata-driven generative AI models * The Cornwall: Improving wellbeing for rural older population in cold climates using locally available agriculture waste. * Socio-techno-economic optimization of energy systems with seasonal thermal storage: a study on a Swiss single-family house * From Poverty to Power- Investigating essential energy services in low-income households in developing nations * Rebuilding in conflict-affected built environments: a simulation-based framework * An integrated EnergyPlus simulation framework for Building Information modelling based building envelope generative design * Development and comparison of urban morphological solar energy and building energy consumption models using ANN and linear regression * Thermal performance predictor for campus exterior spaces: a smart campus mobile application development * Development of convolutional neural network-based turbulence modelling framework for outdoor wind field simulation * Fast prediction of urban wind distribution with deep learning-based surrogate models * Shaping digital twins: exploring uav and web-based 3d modeling technologies for sustainable building simulation * Predicting urban air temperature using UVA Infrared thermography and an artificial neural network * Urbanflow: an AI-driven platform for collaborative, multidisciplinary building-level and urban-scale analysis * Innovative approach to enhancing the reliability of urban microclimate simulations * Optimizing urban open space morphology for enhanced cooling and ventilation performance * Reducing the gap between predicted and measured urban microclimate through handling parameter uncertainty and model form uncertainty * The influence of ancient city wall on cooling effect of water: A case study of Nanjing Ming City Wall * CFD Simulation Analysis of the Impact of Additions on the Environment of Historical Settlements under Humid and Hot Climate Conditions * Clustering-based framework for large urban studies: A case study in Taipei City * Identification of simple dynamic Building-Stock Energy Models for the heat dynamics in residential buildings * Optimization of HVAC planning of large high-ceiling room for spacecrafts and satellites using CFD and optimization algorithm * Building design approach in stack effect calculation for complex cases. Multi-instrumental solution * Demonstrating the feasibility of LLMs to develop complex building energy models * Integrating artificial intelligence in urban design: A neural network-driven approach for noise mitigation optimization * Transfer learning of surrogate models for building energy prediction ## Urban Planning and Smart Cities * Urban microclimatic simulation as a tool for social cohesion and improvement in deprived areas, a case study * Long-term analysis of felt-based living green walls: microclimate monitoring and simulation calibration * Heat Where It Hurts – Spatiotemporal weighting for efficient heat impact assessment in Vienna * High-resolution downscaling simulation of urban wind-thermal environments: An interpretable machine learning analysis of urban morphology * Machine Learning-based thermal environment classification and prediction for historical neighborhoods * Data acquisition on building systems and operations in Urban Building Energy Modeling * Deep learning-based surrogate modeling for optimal control of climate-responsive adaptive faCade systems * The influence of vegetation structure on urban microclimate: A CFD analysis of urban block and vegetation densities * Evaluating green roof performance in Korea: heating and cooling load impacts under future climate scenarios * Examining the effect of heat mitigating strategies on outdoor air temperatures in an educational facility under the hot humid climate of Oman * Geometric model, thermal environment of bus shelters and cooling behaviors of pedestrians in hot–humid areas—a case study in Guangzhou * The impact of Chinese wellness habits on cooling-related behaviors of urban residents * Optimization of ventilation corridor design parameters based on ventilation performance across different urban forms * Integrating CityJSON with building performance simulation: A case study of summer indoor overheating in Antwerp * A novel BIM-to-UHI workflow for integrating UHI analysis as a key driver in BIM retrofit projects * Scaling impact of urban green infrastructure on urban climate and energy: A critical review * Stochastic simulation of uncertain input parameter in urban building energy modelling * Urban form and energy demand- Impact of height and density height and density for low-energy design in Tropical climate * Urban building energy simulation for performance analysis of an energy community model in the Italian context * Constructing three-dimensional urban models for Urban Building Energy Modeling using UAV oblique imagery * Sensitivity analysis of albedo input settings for vertical facades in community-scale solar irradiance simulation * Urban spatial microclimate prediction with morphological map-based ensemble deep learning method * Empowering urban building energy modeling with city information models: A critical review on the benefits and challenges * Integrating UHIE mitigating measures in the urban planning process ## Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) * IFC-based setup of interior spaces for thermal comfort simulations using CFD * Evaluating the effectiveness of building retrofit strategies for reducing indoor overheating risks in elderly apartments * Implications of window opening assumptions in English overheating regulation on assessing residential heat resilience under uncertain climate * Nationwide longitudinal study on summertime overheating risk in English care homes * Evaluating occupant behavior model performance considering long-term time use change * How to combine direct and indirect adiabatic cooling into an air handling unit for resilient tertiary buildings * Analytical dehumidification performance evaluation of a novel window-type liquid desiccant ventilation system based on CFD simulation * The influence of vegetation on the thermal comfort of open transitional spaces * Investigating the built-environment and behavioural prerequisites for occupant satisfaction within the low-income settlements of Mumbai, India --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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