Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design
High-performance districts and communities offer opportunities for reducing energy use, emissions, and costs, and can be instrumental in helping cities achieve their climate goals. The design of such communities requires identification of opportunities early on and their re-evaluation throughout the...
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| author | Charan, Tanushree Mackey, Christopher Irani, Ali Polly, Ben Ray, Stephen Fleming, Katherine El Kontar, Rawad Moore, Nathan Elgindy, Tarek Cutler, Dylan Roudsari, Mostapha Sadeghipour Goldwasser, David |
| author_facet | Charan, Tanushree Mackey, Christopher Irani, Ali Polly, Ben Ray, Stephen Fleming, Katherine El Kontar, Rawad Moore, Nathan Elgindy, Tarek Cutler, Dylan Roudsari, Mostapha Sadeghipour Goldwasser, David |
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| description | High-performance districts and communities offer opportunities for reducing energy use, emissions, and costs, and can be instrumental in helping cities achieve their climate goals. The design of such communities requires identification of opportunities early on and their re-evaluation throughout the planning process. There is a need for energy modeling tools that connect 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) platforms to simulation engines, enabling detailed energy analysis of districts within the workflows and tools used by practitioners. This paper introduces the Dragonfly and URBANopt<sup>TM</sup> combined toolset that supports the creation of urban models from a range of geometry formats typically used by designers and planners, and provides an integrated pathway to simulate district-scale energy systems. The toolset is piloted by a global architecture and master planning firm to evaluate several key urban-scale technical questions for the design of a district in Chicago. The findings indicate that, while energy savings can be achieved through traditional architectural studies and enhancements to individual building efficiency, the modeling toolset helps identify additional savings and insights that can be achieved when considering district-scale energy systems. Finally, this study demonstrates how the Dragonfly/URBANopt toolset can integrate with master planning workflows, thereby enabling an iterative performance-based design process. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1331742021-11-01T14:36:57Z Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design Charan, Tanushree Mackey, Christopher Irani, Ali Polly, Ben Ray, Stephen Fleming, Katherine El Kontar, Rawad Moore, Nathan Elgindy, Tarek Cutler, Dylan Roudsari, Mostapha Sadeghipour Goldwasser, David High-performance districts and communities offer opportunities for reducing energy use, emissions, and costs, and can be instrumental in helping cities achieve their climate goals. The design of such communities requires identification of opportunities early on and their re-evaluation throughout the planning process. There is a need for energy modeling tools that connect 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) platforms to simulation engines, enabling detailed energy analysis of districts within the workflows and tools used by practitioners. This paper introduces the Dragonfly and URBANopt<sup>TM</sup> combined toolset that supports the creation of urban models from a range of geometry formats typically used by designers and planners, and provides an integrated pathway to simulate district-scale energy systems. The toolset is piloted by a global architecture and master planning firm to evaluate several key urban-scale technical questions for the design of a district in Chicago. The findings indicate that, while energy savings can be achieved through traditional architectural studies and enhancements to individual building efficiency, the modeling toolset helps identify additional savings and insights that can be achieved when considering district-scale energy systems. Finally, this study demonstrates how the Dragonfly/URBANopt toolset can integrate with master planning workflows, thereby enabling an iterative performance-based design process. 2021-10-27T17:18:06Z 2021-10-27T17:18:06Z 2021-09-18 2021-09-25T23:33:28Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133174 Energies 14 (18): 5931 (2021) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14185931 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Charan, Tanushree Mackey, Christopher Irani, Ali Polly, Ben Ray, Stephen Fleming, Katherine El Kontar, Rawad Moore, Nathan Elgindy, Tarek Cutler, Dylan Roudsari, Mostapha Sadeghipour Goldwasser, David Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title | Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title_full | Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title_fullStr | Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title_short | Integration of Open-Source URBANopt and Dragonfly Energy Modeling Capabilities into Practitioner Workflows for District-Scale Planning and Design |
| title_sort | integration of open source urbanopt and dragonfly energy modeling capabilities into practitioner workflows for district scale planning and design |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133174 |
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