Clark County (Vegas) Archetypes from ORNL's AutoBEM

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed the Automatic Building Energy Modeling (AutoBEM) software suite to process multiple types of data, extract building-specific descriptors, generate building energy models, and simulate them on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. For more information, see AutoBEM-related publications (bit.ly/AutoBEM).

To reduce computational demand for representing energy-related performance of a specific portion of the building sector, AutoBEM can dynamically generate archetype buildings along with multipliers based on conditioned floor area. This was performed for all residential and commercial buildings in Clark County, Nevada. For the original dataset of all 589,586 buildings, please refer to http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4552901.

Critical note: Building multipliers and models will be updated soon.

Two sets of data are provided for 129 archetype models and 120 multipliers for Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada in the United States. There are 129 models and only 120 multipliers since 9 building type*vintage categories contain only 1 building:

Data (42kB *.csv) - minimalist list of each archetype building (rows) for the following fields (columns)

County - county name

State - state name

CZ - ASHRAE Climate Zone designation

Clim_Zone - text label of climate zone

est_year - estimated year of construction

est_commercial - estimated building type (0=residential, 1=commercial)

Centroid - building center location in latitude/longitude (from Footprint2D)

Footprint2D - building polygon of 2D footprint (lat1/lon1_lat2/lon2_...)

Height - building height (meters)

ID - unique building ID

Area2D - footprint area (ft2)

BuildingType - DOE prototype building designation (IECC=residential) as implemented by OpenStudio-standards

WWR_surfaces - percent of each facade (pair of points from Footprint2D) covered by fenestration/windows (average 14.5% for residential, average 40% for commercial buildings varying by building type)

NumFloors - number of floors (above-grade)

Area - estimate of total conditioned floor area (ft2)

Standard - building vintage

Area_Multiplier - amount simulation outputs should be multiplied by to represent all 589,586 buildings in Clark County

Models (2.6MB *.zip) - EnergyPlus building energy models named according to ID