EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings
Abstract Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy options. In Europe, efforts from citi...
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| author | Nikola Milojevic-Dupont Felix Wagner Florian Nachtigall Jiawei Hu Geza Boi Brüser Marius Zumwald Filip Biljecki Niko Heeren Lynn H. Kaack Peter-Paul Pichler Felix Creutzig |
| author_facet | Nikola Milojevic-Dupont Felix Wagner Florian Nachtigall Jiawei Hu Geza Boi Brüser Marius Zumwald Filip Biljecki Niko Heeren Lynn H. Kaack Peter-Paul Pichler Felix Creutzig |
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| description | Abstract Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy options. In Europe, efforts from citizen and governments generated numerous relevant datasets but these are fragmented and heterogeneous, thus hindering their usability. Here, we present eubucco v0.1, a database of individual building footprints for ~202 million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland. Three main attributes – building height, construction year and type – are included for respectively 73%, 24% and 46% of the buildings. We identify, collect and harmonize 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap, and perform extensive validation analyses to assess the quality, consistency and completeness of the data in every country. eubucco v0.1 provides the basis for high-resolution urban sustainability studies across scales – continental, comparative or local studies – using a centralized source and is relevant for a variety of use cases, e.g., for energy system analysis or natural hazard risk assessments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e28e0dcd094c4639a15f06ccfb4fdc402023-04-23T11:09:02ZengNature PortfolioScientific Data2052-44632023-03-0110111710.1038/s41597-023-02040-2EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildingsNikola Milojevic-Dupont0Felix Wagner1Florian Nachtigall2Jiawei Hu3Geza Boi Brüser4Marius Zumwald5Filip Biljecki6Niko Heeren7Lynn H. Kaack8Peter-Paul Pichler9Felix Creutzig10Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate ChangeMercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate ChangeMercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate ChangeMercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate ChangeIndependent researcherTechnical University BerlinNational University of SingaporeNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)Hertie School, Data Science LabPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate ChangeAbstract Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy options. In Europe, efforts from citizen and governments generated numerous relevant datasets but these are fragmented and heterogeneous, thus hindering their usability. Here, we present eubucco v0.1, a database of individual building footprints for ~202 million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland. Three main attributes – building height, construction year and type – are included for respectively 73%, 24% and 46% of the buildings. We identify, collect and harmonize 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap, and perform extensive validation analyses to assess the quality, consistency and completeness of the data in every country. eubucco v0.1 provides the basis for high-resolution urban sustainability studies across scales – continental, comparative or local studies – using a centralized source and is relevant for a variety of use cases, e.g., for energy system analysis or natural hazard risk assessments.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02040-2 |
| spellingShingle | Nikola Milojevic-Dupont Felix Wagner Florian Nachtigall Jiawei Hu Geza Boi Brüser Marius Zumwald Filip Biljecki Niko Heeren Lynn H. Kaack Peter-Paul Pichler Felix Creutzig EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings Scientific Data |
| title | EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings |
| title_full | EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings |
| title_fullStr | EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings |
| title_short | EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings |
| title_sort | eubucco v0 1 european building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200 million individual buildings |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02040-2 |
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