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Journal article
The Relationship between Urban Density and Building Energy Consumption
Buildings (Basel), v 11(10), p455
01 Oct 2021
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Abstract
Neighborhood characteristics influence natural urban energy fluxes and the choices made by urban actors. This article focuses on the impact of urban density as a neighborhood physical parameter on building energy consumption profiles for seven different metropolitan areas in the United States. Primarily, 30 x 30 m(2) cells were classified into five categories of settlement density using the US Geological Survey's National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), the US Census, and Census Block data. In the next step, linear hierarchical spatial and non-spatial models were developed and applied to building energy data in those seven metropolitan areas to explore the links between urban density (and other urban form parameters) and energy performance, using both frequentist and Bayesian statistics. Our results indicate that urban density is correlated with energy-use intensity (EUI), but its impact is not similar across different metropolitan areas. The outcomes of our analysis further show that the distance from buildings within which the influence of urban form parameters on EUI is most significant varies by city and negatively changes with urban density. Although the relationship between urban density parameters and EUI varies across cities, tree-cover area, impervious area, and neighborhood building-covered area have a more consistent impact compared to building and housing density.
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- Title
- The Relationship between Urban Density and Building Energy Consumption
- Creators
- Nariman Mostafavi - Drexel Univ, Dept Civil Architectural & Environm Engn, Chestnut St 3141, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAMehdi Pourpeikari Heris - Hunter Coll, Dept Urban Policy & Planning, Pk Ave 695, New York, NY 10065 USAFernanda Gandara - Sch Sch Int, Palmetto Ave 1625, Pacifica, CA 94044 USASimi Hoque - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Buildings (Basel), v 11(10), p455
- Publisher
- Mdpi
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- 1740449 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000717019200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85117213845
- Other Identifier
- 991019167444904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Construction & Building Technology
- Engineering, Civil