Tech Xplore

As new EU requirements approach, researchers propose tool for assessing digital building models

Decades from now, if a building is renovated and its facade panels are replaced, the removed panels could be reused on ...
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All the world's buildings available as 3D models for urban and climate research

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial ...
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This brilliant map has 3D models of nearly every single building in the world - all 2.75 billion of them

Google Maps has got fresh competition. Using machine learning, computer engineers have developed an interactive map that shows 3D models of the world's buildings – practically every single one of them ...
Energy Department

It's Alive! After Five Years in the Lab, Spawn of EnergyPlus is Finally Here

EnergyPlus celebrated its 20 th birthday this past April. A few months later—smack between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day—it also became a parent. Spawn of EnergyPlus—or just Spawn—was released as part ...