Speakers
Description
This workshop addresses the urgent challenge of urban decarbonisation by exploring interdisciplinary methods for visualising and communicating building-level energy performance data. With cities responsible for over 70% of global CO₂ emissions, there is a growing need for integrated approaches that bring together spatial data infrastructure, energy modelling, visual communication, and civic engagement. Participants will be introduced to the Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP), a decentralised network of national, open-source platforms developed by academic consortia to support energy transitions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These platforms offer fully open-access, standardised spatial data on buildings, covering over 150 variables across 12 categories, and are designed for cross-sector use by researchers, policymakers, local authorities, and communities. With research groups in more than 30 countries and collaborations involving over 150 researchers, CCRP is rapidly expanding as a global infrastructure for open building data. The workshop will demonstrate how CCRP platforms support the visualisation and analysis of energy performance data to identify retrofit priorities, harmonise energy certification methods across countries, and improve the reliability of datasets through integrated approaches such as crowdsourcing, computational inference, and bulk data processing. Case studies from Sweden and the UK will be presented to demonestrate how the CCRP support the implimentation of EPC.
