To quantify the energy savings associated with insulation retrofits in existing single-family homes, we use a regression-based approach to simulate energy savings in a number of prototype homes in different cities and apply those findings to the set of homes where insulation retrofits were deemed plausible.
Place research is relatively new, and the studies of crime and place have followed a variety of lines of inquiry, using different data, from different cities, and applying different ways of examining their data.
We simulated prototype single-family homes in a number of different cities and applied the energy model REM/Design (Architectural Energy Corporation, Boulder, CO) to estimate energy consumption given home configuration, climate, and insulation levels.
Naturally, over 1,000 cities applied.
"The fact that we can pull up to any building in the world on any place in the world, and just start to write whatever we want, is an interesting phenomenon, it's an interesting litmus test to apply to different cities as well because you learn a lot about a city by what they'll allow you to write there," Powderly said.
The framework proposed in this paper can be applied to different cities, since it is not based on any assumptions regarding the spatial and urban context.
But, the new method can be applied in different cities and in different heat source distributions, and can achieve a considerably high energy saving rate, ranging from 5.2% to 21.4%.
In order to trace the spatial and temporal patterns of urban landscape structures, compare patterns across cities, or inform urban design principles, we need to classify the landscape in a way that captures context and landscape heterogeneity, but can be broadly applied across different cities or landscape variations within a city.
This study examines the overheating risk in London dwelling archetypes when simulated under different UK climates, both in the present and under 'hot future' conditions, with the objective of identifying whether the conclusions drawn from location-specific studies can be generically applied to different cities.
This activity, which has quickly spread to many different cities in Germany and Sweden, could likely be applied to U.S. rallies like the one in Charlottesville.
