Coupling of building and vegetation resolving urban microclimate model with a building energy simulation program

The objective of this work is to develop and validate a coupled fast-running Building Energy Modeling/Microclimate model for use in developing site-specific design strategies which minimize energy and water use All the micro-climate variables affecting the building energy consumption, such as solar radiation, long wave radiation, air temperature, wind speed and direction, are taken into account. Differently from previous literature, we propose a fully-dynamic coupling approach, fully surface-specific, coupling EnergyPlus and QES.