CBE Clima Tool: A free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design

IF 6.1 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Building Simulation Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI:10.1007/s12273-023-1090-5

Giovanni Betti, Federico Tartarini, Christine Nguyen, Stefano Schiavon

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Abstract

Climate-responsive building design holds immense potential for enhancing comfort, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability. However, many social, cultural, and economic obstacles might prevent the wide adoption of designing climate-adapted buildings. One of these obstacles can be removed by enabling practitioners to easily access, visualize and analyze local climate data. The CBE Clima Tool (Clima) is a free and open-source web application that offers easy access to publicly available weather files and has been created for building energy simulation and design. It provides a series of interactive visualizations of the variables contained in the EnergyPlus Weather Files and several derived ones like the UTCI or the adaptive comfort indices. It is aimed at students, educators, and practitioners in the architecture and engineering fields. Since its inception, Clima’s user base has exhibited robust growth, attracting over 25,000 unique users annually from across 70 countries. Our tool is poised to revolutionize climate-adaptive building design, transcending geographical boundaries and fostering innovation in the architecture and engineering fields.

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CBE气候工具:一个免费和开源的网络应用程序，为可持续建筑设计量身定制气候分析

气候响应型建筑设计在提高舒适度、能源效率和环境可持续性方面具有巨大的潜力。然而，许多社会、文化和经济障碍可能会阻碍气候适应性建筑设计的广泛采用。通过使从业者能够轻松访问、可视化和分析当地气候数据，可以消除其中一个障碍。CBE气候工具(Clima)是一个免费的、开源的网络应用程序，可以方便地访问公开可用的天气文件，并为建筑能源模拟和设计而创建。它提供了EnergyPlus天气文件中包含的一系列变量的交互式可视化，以及几个衍生变量，如UTCI或自适应舒适指数。它针对的是建筑和工程领域的学生、教育工作者和实践者。自成立以来，Clima的用户群呈现出强劲的增长，每年吸引来自70个国家的25,000多名独立用户。我们的工具有望彻底改变气候适应性建筑设计，超越地理界限，促进建筑和工程领域的创新。

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来源期刊

Building Simulation THERMODYNAMICS-CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

16.40%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Building Simulation: An International Journal publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research papers and review articles dealing with modeling and simulation of buildings including their systems. The goal is to promote the field of building science and technology to such a level that modeling will eventually be used in every aspect of building construction as a routine instead of an exception. Of particular interest are papers that reflect recent developments and applications of modeling tools and their impact on advances of building science and technology.