Quality Assessment of Automatically Generated Simplied Thermal Building Models

Building modeling and simulation are resource intensive tasks. The modeling effort for thermal building models can be reduced significantly by automatic model generation. In this work, an extension of an existing prototypical building model generation tool chain is discussed. This extension integrates a collaborative mapping solution into building modeling for thermal simulation. The improved tool chain was validated using three models of the same building generated manually, semi-automatically and automatically. Simulations were performed using each model to assess their quality by comparison with measured data. The results show the suitability of the automated process as a cost-effective method to generate models for building performance simulation.