Climate Vulnerability and resilience Solutions

Building, energy and environment

Climate Vulnerability and resilence solutions

Service 1: Mi Energía/La meva Energia Web APP

  • A new digital access channel to increase user energy awareness:
    • Universal and valuable for all citizens.
    • Personalized tips based on data intelligence
    • Complements existing accessibility channels.
    • Increase the scope of energy poverty prevention.
    • Raise awareness and guarantee the right to energy for all citizens
  • Provide municipal advisors with an advanced management tool to deliver faster and better service to citizens.

 

Mi Energía App for Energy Assessment of citizens in Barcelona

  • Focusing on assessing building-level vulnerability to heat waves
  • Detailed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over 60,000 residential buildings
  • Estimation of climate vulnerability using a hybrid AI approach that combines real and simulated data.
  • Generation of downloadable georeferenced layers of KPIs
  • Short and long-time  projections for building retrofitting, urban greening and vulnerability mitigation actions
  • Develop an interoperable and scalable data model and optimization methodology that can be applied to other European cities.

 

Climate Vulnerability and resilence solutions

Service 2: Vulnerability map

Climate Vulnerability Map of Barcelona

  • Building characteristics:
    • Context of nearby buildings​

    • Number of dwellings

    • Built area per use

    • Effective year of construction

    • Category / economic value

    • Typology

  • Energy
    • Energy systems from EPCs
    • Energy consumption from DSOs
    • Aggregated data from DATADIS
  • Weather conditions:
    • Microlocal weather file
  • Demographics and socioeconomics*:
    • People per household
    • Incomes (sources and annual amount)
    • Age range
    • Rental Housing Price Index
  • Building thermal demand
    • At building level
    • Based on large-scale simulations and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)


(*aggregated to census tract or district)

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Climate Vulnerability and resilence solutions

Service 2: Vulnerability map

KPIs based on Open data sources:

Data platform