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Prioritizing urban planning factors on community energy performance based on GIS-informed building energy modeling

Yu, Hang, Wang, Meng, Lin, Xiaoyu, Guo, Haijin, Liu, He, Zhao, Yingru, Wang, Hongxin, Li, Chaoen and Jing, Rui 2021. Prioritizing urban planning factors on community energy performance based on GIS-informed building energy modeling. Energy and Buildings 249 , 111191. 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111191

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Abstract

The residential sector accounts for an increasing amount of global energy use with continued urbanization. Residential energy-informed urban planning offers an economical and easy-to-operate approach to achieve more efficient urban energy utilization. However, quantifying the interactions between residential energy and urban planning remains an open challenge. This study proposes a holistic approach integrating GIS techniques, building energy modeling, and a global sensitivity analysis to prioritize eight key urban planning factors on the community energy performance based on a building energy dataset. The dataset, including urban planning and building information, was first established using GIS techniques and validated using survey data. The residential energy performance model at the community scale was developed using the clustering tree structure of residential building prototypes and building performance simulations. A combined data-driven and global sensitivity analysis approach was further applied to prioritize the impacts of eight vital urban planning factors on energy use intensity and peak load intensity. A case study of 1963 communities in Shanghai revealed that, for the energy performance of residential communities, the floor area ratio and building coverage ratio are the most influential factors, followed by the maximum height and high-rise proportion having a relatively low impact but higher than other factors. Overall, the proposed holistic approach generates robust insights into urban-scale residential energy performance, which can effectively inform urban planners to achieve more energy-efficient regulatory planning.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0378-7788
Date of Acceptance: 11 June 2021
Last Modified: 04 Aug 2022 02:12
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142509

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