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© 2024 The AuthorsWith climate change affecting buildings differently across various local climates, there's a heightened focus on local microclimates and their impact on building energy consumption. Urban microclimates change the buildings' energy dynamics by influencing local weather patterns while building operations affect these patterns and microclimates through feedback. This paper provides a comprehensive review of tools and applications used for examining the feedback interaction between building operation and energy, and urban microclimate. This study collects, analyses, and classifies tools and applications related to Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) and Urban Climate Modeling (UCM) and particularly focuses on the combination of these tools through Multi-Domain Urban Scale Energy Modeling (MD-USEM), enabling efficient information exchange between urban microclimate and building energy models. The building-microclimate exchange of information may occur as either a one-way impact or a two-way interaction, a distinction that is thoroughly examined in the final section with an in-depth analysis of the relevant literature.
Author(s): Pasandi L, Qian Z, Woo WL, Palacin R
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Building and Environment
Year: 2024
Volume: 263
Print publication date: 01/09/2024
Online publication date: 17/07/2024
Acceptance date: 15/07/2024
ISSN (print): 0360-1323
ISSN (electronic): 1873-684X
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111855
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111855
Data Access Statement: Data will be made available on request.
