Model America - Clark County (Vegas) extract 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).

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

Two sets of data are provided for 589,586 buildings located within the boundary of Clark County (Las Vegas) in the United States:

1. Data (185MB *.csv) - minimalist list of each building (rows) for the following fields (columns)
   1. County - county name
   2. State - state name
   3. CZ - ASHRAE Climate Zone designation
   4. Clim_Zone - text label of climate zone
   5. est_year - estimated year of construction
   6. est_commercial - estimated building type (0=residential, 1=commercial)
   7. Centroid - building center location in latitude/longitude (from Footprint2D)
   8. Footprint2D - building polygon of 2D footprint (lat1/lon1_lat2/lon2_...)
   9. Height - building height (meters)
   10. ID - unique building ID
   11. Area2D - footprint area (ft²)
   12. BuildingType - DOE prototype building designation (IECC=residential) as implemented by OpenStudio-standards
   13. WWR_surfaces - percent of each facade (pair of points from Footprint2D) covered by fenestration/windows (average 14.5% for residential, 40% for commercial buildings)
   14. NumFloors - number of floors (above-grade)
   15. Area - estimate of total conditioned floor area (ft²)
   16. Standard - building vintage
2. Models (9.2GB *.tar.gz) - EnergyPlus building energy models named according to ID
   • Each model has approximately 3,000 building input descriptors that can be extracted. Please see the EnergyPlus (v9.4) 2,784-page Input/Output Reference Guide for everything that can be retrieved or simulated from these models.