Building Modeling Tools for Cooling Reliability in Oakland, CA
Modeling and analysis of a city's building stock to support greater cooling security during extreme heat
Neighborhood-scale building modeling with CityBES:
- CityBES is an open tool for neighborhood- to urban-scale building modeling
- The team has developed a residential building dataset for the Fruitvale district of Oakland, CA
- The CityBES tool can model energy savings for one building or for a group of buildings
- The tool can model the effectiveness of a range of passive and active cooling measures below during a worst case heat wave to maintain indoor habitability, and also model the effectiveness of the two air filtration measures below during a worst case smoke event from nearby wildfires.
- We've also developed a Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) tool for Oakland
The CityBES tool is available for free at https://citybes.lbl.gov/, and tutorial videos for CityBES and the HVI tool are included below.
Modeled measures include:
Related publications
- Heat vulnerability index development and mapping
- Active measures modeling paper