IEA ECB Annex 70: Analysis of Building Energy Data with a Scalable Building Stock Model

Building Energy Epidemiology: Analysis of Real Building Energy Use at Scale

The IEA ECB Annex 70 is a joint project of international experts from research, industry and politics. Building park modelling focuses on the analysis of real building and energy data. The understanding of the relationships between framework conditions, individual buildings, actors and the building park is to be improved with a multidisciplinary approach.

IEA stands for the International Energy Agency and EBC for Energy in Buildings and Communities.

On behalf of a research project of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), TEP Energy is developing contributions to all three subprojects:

  • Subproject A deals with the structuring of the various user groups. In an online survey, we collect information on the data situation, access and basis as well as data acquisition, storage, processing and protection of users.
  • In Subproject B, a data register is being set up which will provide an overview of the data situation and accesses.
  • In Subproject C – the focus of our contribution – the development and application of building park models are recorded, described and classified in a grid to be developed. We focus in particular on the effects of uncertainties in the data basis. In addition, the representative approach developed in the SFOE research project GEPAMOD is being further developed in order to demonstrate the methodological added value.

Project infos

  • Project duration2018 to 2020

  • Contact person at TEP EnergyMartin Jakob

  • PrincipalSFOE

  • Project partnersUniversity College London (UCL) (lead), TEP Energy, Chalmers University of Technology

  • Project description(PDF)

  • Annex 70 – Building Energy Epidemiology

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