BUILDSPACE: Enabling Innovative Space-driven Services for Energy Efficient Buildings and Climate Resilient Cities

In an era of growing environmental challenges and urban development pressures, integrating diverse data sources for buildings and cities is crucial for advancing energy efficiency and climate resilience. BUILDSPACE aims to couple terrestrial data from buildings with aerial imaging from drones equipped with thermal cameras and location-annotated data from satellite services to deliver innovative services for the building and urban stakeholders and support informed decision-making towards energy-efficient buildings and climate-resilient cities. The platform will allow integration of these heterogeneous data and will offer services at the building scale, enabling the generation of high fidelity multi-modal digital twins and at the city scale providing decision support services for energy demand prediction, urban heat and urban flood analysis.

The services will enable the identification of environmental hotspots that increase pressure on local city ecosystems and raise the probability of natural disasters, such as flooding, and will issue alerts and recommendations for action to local governments and regions, such as the support of policies for building renovation in specific vulnerable areas. BUILDSPACE services will be validated and assessed in four European cities with different climate profiles. The digital twin services at the building level will be tested during the construction of a new building in Poland, and the city services validating the link to digital twin of buildings will be tested in 3 cities across the EU. BUILDSPACE will create a set of replication guidelines and blueprints for the adoption of the proposed applications in building resilient cities at large.