Building Simulation 2025: Day 1

Get ready for BS2025, 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