How Cities Can Plan the Energy Transition Using Urban Building Energy Models
Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) enables city-scale energy transition planning by integrating simplified physics-based models with urban data and three-dimensional city representations. This webinar presents a UBEM-based workflow demonstrated through a case study of the City of Ithaca and introduces EnergyAtlas.io, an urban digital twin platform available as a web application and Grasshopper plugin. The session shows how urban 3D reconstruction, building archetypes, and reduced-order energy simulation can be combined to evaluate retrofit and electrification strategies at building, campus, and district scales.
Chengxuan Li
Chengxuan Li is a PhD researcher in Systems Engineering and leads the development of EnergyAtlas.io at the Environmental Systems Lab, Cornell University. His work focuses on Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM), urban digital twins, and scalable methods for evaluating building retrofit and electrification strategies. Li was trained as an architect and holds a BA (Hons) and MArch AA Diploma from the Architectural Association in London.
Timur Dogan
Timur Dogan (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Cornell AAP, where he directs the M.Arch. Program and Environmental Systems Lab (es.aap.cornell.edu). His research advances sustainable architecture and urbanism through educational programming and strategic work at the intersection of design, computation, building performance simulation, and geospatial analysis.
