BRIGE: Integrated Social, Environmental, Economic, and Technical (SEET) Model for Sustainable Retrofit of Existing Buildings

这个扩大参与工程研究启动补助金（BRIGE）提供资金，以开发和测试模拟框架，以加强和支持现有建筑物可持续改造的决策过程。该框架将使用基于代理的建模（ABM）来开发，以整合建筑利益相关者的要求和行为，预算约束，所需的节能和绿色房屋气体减排基准，以及可能的改造措施，以模拟其复杂的相互作用。主要目标是确定最佳的改造措施，节省能源使用，同时为所有建筑利益相关者提供更好的环境。为了实现这一目标，将从三个案例研究建筑物中收集数据。反弹道导弹将包括个人代理，在软件中实现的状态和行为规则的对象。运行该模型实例化的建筑利益相关者的代理人口谁相互作用和他们的环境，并作出决定，他们收到的信息的基础上，现有的建筑条件，和环境/经济影响的可行的改造措施。如果成功，这项研究将导致决策领域的几个贡献，以可持续地改造现有的建筑物;即（1）了解不同建筑利益相关者的要求如何影响可持续改造决策;（2）确定有关环境影响、经济约束和技术可行性的信息在多大程度上影响这些要求;（3）开发和测试这些要求和影响的ABM模拟模型。在选择可持续的改造措施的同时，协调建筑物利益相关者对改善工作环境、利润最大化和节能的要求，是实现建筑部门绿色房屋气体排放目标减少的关键。通过案例研究进行的模型验证将确保其对寻求减少其现有建筑物对环境影响的私人和公共实体的实用价值。

This Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grant in Engineering (BRIGE) provides funding to develop and test a simulation framework to enhance and support the decision making process for sustainable retrofit of existing buildings. This framework will be developed using agent based modeling (ABM) to integrate the building stakeholders' requirements and behaviors, the budget constraints, the required energy savings and green house gas emissions reduction benchmarks, and possible retrofit measures to simulate their complex interactions. The primary goal is to identify optimal retrofit measures that save energy use while delivering an enhanced environment for all building stakeholders. To achieve this objective, data will be collected from three case study buildings. The ABM will consist of individual agents, implemented in software as objects with states and rules of behavior. Running the model instantiates an agent population of the building stakeholders who interact with each other and their environment, and make decisions based on information they receive about the existing building condition, and the environmental/economic impacts of the feasible retrofit measures.If successful, this research will result in several contributions to the field of decision making to sustainably retrofit existing buildings; namely (1) understanding how the requirements of the different building stakeholders affect the sustainable retrofit decision; (2) determining to what extent information about environmental impact, economic constraints, and technical feasibility influences these requirements; and (3) developing and testing an ABM simulation model of these requirements and influences. Aligning the building stakeholders' requirements for enhanced work environment, profit maximization and energy savings, while choosing sustainable retrofit measures, is key to achieve targeted reduction in green house gas emissions from the building sector. The model validation through case studies will ensure its practical value to private and public entities looking to reduce the environmental impact of their existing buildings.