Model America - data for every U.S. building

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>DATA HAS BEEN MIGRATED TO <a href="https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/view/doi:10.15485/2283980">https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/view/doi:10.15485/2283980</a></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The 5-year goal of the &ldquo;Model America&rdquo; concept was to generate a model of every building in the United States. This data repository delivers on that goal with "Model America v1".</p> <p>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 (<a href="https://bit.ly/AutoBEM">bit.ly/AutoBEM</a>).</p> <p>There were 125,715,609 buildings detected in the United States. Of this number,&nbsp;122,146,671 (97.2%) buildings resulted in a successful generation and simulation of a building energy model. This dataset includes the full 125 million buildings.&nbsp;Future updates may include additional buildings, data improvements, or other algorithmic model enhancements in "Model America v2".</p> <ol> <li><strong>Data, separated by state&nbsp;- minimalist list of each building (rows) for the following fields (columns)</strong> <ol> <li>ID - unique building ID</li> <li>Footprint2D - lat/lon vertices of building footprint</li> <li>State_Abbrev - Abbreviation for the from which building is located</li> <li>Area - estimate of total conditioned floor area&nbsp;(ft²)</li> <li>Area2D - footprint area (ft²)&nbsp;</li> <li>CZ - ASHRAE Climate Zone designation</li> <li>Height - building height (ft)</li> <li>NumFloors - number of floors (above-grade)&nbsp;</li> <li>WWR_surfaces - percent of each facade (pair of points from Footprint2D) covered by fenestration/windows&nbsp;(average 14.5% for residential, 40% for commercial buildings)</li> <li>CZ - US climate zone designation</li> <li>BuildingType - DOE prototype building designation (IECC=residential) as implemented by OpenStudio-standards</li> <li>Standard - building vintage (determined by building age)</li> </ol> </li> </ol> <p>This data is made free and openly available in hopes of stimulating any simulation-informed use case. Data is provided as-is with no warranties, express or implied, regarding fitness for a particular purpose. We wish to thank our sponsors which include Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD), U.S. Dept. of Energy&rsquo;s (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO), Office of Electricity (OE), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).&nbsp;</p>