Building Modeling

Building Modeling Tools for Heat Resilience

Modeling and analysis of a city's building stock to support greater resilience during extreme heat

Neighborhood-scale building modeling with CityBES(link is external):

CityBES

The CityBES tool is available for free at https://citybes.lbl.gov/(link is external),  and tutorial videos for CityBES and the HVI tool are included below.

 

Modeled measures include:

Passive Indoor Modeled Measures

Active Indoor Modeled Measures

 

Related publications

 

CityBES tutorial videos:

1) CityBES introduction

 

2) Resilience Analysis tutorial

 

3) HVI tutorial