This year’s Building Simulation and Optimisation, IBPSA-England’s Sixth Conference, and second Virtual BSO was hosted by the University of Bath and the Centre for Energy and the Design of Environments (EDEn). The GEMDev team successfully presented its work titled “Developing an Open Access Plugin for Urban Building Energy Modelling in QGIS” The abstract can be…

This year’s Building Simulation and Optimisation, IBPSA-England’s Sixth Conference, and second Virtual BSO was hosted by the University of Bath and the Centre for Energy and the Design of Environments (EDEn). The GEMDev team successfully presented its work titled “The impact of built environment on thermal comfort in informal settlements. The case of José Carlos…

Looking over the airplane window. Lima, the capital of Peru. 10 million inhabitants, doubled since 1980, with an estimated 30% occupying land on the steep peripheral slopes, in self-constructed neighbourhoods. This visit would not only bring the team members close for the first time, it would also bring our thinking and our modelling closer to…