What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models?

Hicham Johra; Markus Schaffer; Gaurav Chaudhary; Hussain Syed Kazmi; Jérôme  Le Dréau; Steffen Petersen

doi:10.26868/25222708.2023.1309

What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models?

Hicham Johra, Markus Schaffer, Gaurav Chaudhary, Hussain Syed Kazmi, Jérôme Le Dréau, Steffen Petersen

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Abstract

Comparing, validating and assessing the accuracy of dynamic models is crucial for multiple applications in the field of energy, buildings and indoor environmental engineering. To that matter, various comparison metrics and key performance indicators have been developed or borrowed from other fields of science, and a few popular guidelines have recommended some of them for building energy models.
This article aims at giving an overview of what metrics are used by the community of researchers in the field of energy, buildings and indoor environment. This overview is based on a large-scale review work of 259 scientific publications from the last 40 years. This paper also discusses the main trends, reveals certain gaps and suggests several research activities currently being undertaken by a multi-institutional working group of researchers, which should greatly benefit the entire community of building energy and indoor environment simulation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023 : 18th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Shanghai, China, 4-6 September 2023
Number of pages	8
Volume	18
Publisher	International Building Performance Simulation Association
Publication date	Sept 2023
Pages	861-868
Article number	1309
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7750520-3-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2023.1309
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023
Event	IBPSA Building Simulation 2023 - Shanghai, Shanghai, China Duration: 4 Sept 2023 → 6 Sept 2023 https://bs2023.org/

Conference

Conference	IBPSA Building Simulation 2023
Location	Shanghai
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	04/09/2023 → 06/09/2023
Internet address	https://bs2023.org/

Series	Building Simulation Conference proceedings
Volume	18
ISSN	2522-2708

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Authors retain the copyright while having granted IBPSA a nonexclusive right to publish the paper, but only in unmodified form.

Keywords

Model Validation
metric
comparison metric
Building model
Model comparison
building simulation
KPI
TIme Series Analysis

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Johra, H., Schaffer, M., Chaudhary, G., Syed Kazmi, H., Le Dréau, J., & Petersen, S. (2023). What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models? In Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Shanghai, China, 4-6 September 2023 (Vol. 18, pp. 861-868). Article 1309 International Building Performance Simulation Association. https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2023.1309

Johra, Hicham ; Schaffer, Markus ; Chaudhary, Gaurav et al. / What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models?. Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Shanghai, China, 4-6 September 2023. Vol. 18 International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2023. pp. 861-868 (Building Simulation Conference proceedings, Vol. 18).

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Johra, H , Schaffer, M, Chaudhary, G, Syed Kazmi, H, Le Dréau, J & Petersen, S 2023, What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models? in Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Shanghai, China, 4-6 September 2023. vol. 18, 1309, International Building Performance Simulation Association, Building Simulation Conference proceedings, vol. 18, pp. 861-868, IBPSA Building Simulation 2023, Shanghai, China, 04/09/2023. https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2023.1309

What Metrics Does the Building Energy Performance Community Use to Compare Dynamic Models? / Johra, Hicham ; Schaffer, Markus; Chaudhary, Gaurav et al.
Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Shanghai, China, 4-6 September 2023. Vol. 18 International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2023. p. 861-868 1309 (Building Simulation Conference proceedings, Vol. 18).

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