cea-bia-tool-v2.0

The BIA plug-in is now compatible with CEA v3.34.1[v2.0]

15 September 2023, in Zurich & Singapore

In this release:

The BIA plug-in is now compatible with CEA v3.34.1 released on 7 September 2023
Bug-fix: the script won't break when the building does not contain surfaces facing all four orientations.

Zhongming Shi

cea-bia-tool-v1.4

In this release:

• The BIA plug-in is now compatible with CEA v3.33.0 released on 28 June 2023
• Bug-fix: the script won't break when there is no BIA potentials for the entire scenario.

cea-bia-tool-v1.3

In this release:

• We have fixed some bugs in the previous version
• We have included a new functionality facilitating the visualisation of BIA assessment and BIA planting calendar.

cea-bia-tool-v1.2

A plugin for the City Energy Analyst: building-integrated agriculture (BIA) extensions. It has two main functions. One calculates crop yields (kg), environmental impacts including GHG emissions (kg CO2-eq), energy (kWh) and water use (litre), costs including capital and operational expenditures (USD) for the selected crop type on the selected building envelope surface. The other one produces the crop profile and planting calendar (crop type selection on each day of a year) for each building surface, based on one of the user-defined objectives. As of August 1, 2022, this plugin works the best for Singapore or its adjacent regions as the planting data have been acquired from the Tropical Technologies (T2) Laboratory affiliated to the National University of Singapore in Clementi, Singapore.

cea-bia-tool-v1.1

This is the very first release of a fully functioning version of the BIA tool as an extension to the City Energy Analyst.

The BIA tool calculates crop yields (kg), environmental impacts including GHG Emissions (kg CO2-eq), energy (kWh) and water use (litre), costs including capital and operational expenditures (USD) for the selected crop type on the selected building envelope surface. As of July 14, 2022, this plugin works the best for Singapore or its adjacent regions as the planting data have been acquired from the Tropical Technologies (T2) Laboratory affiliated to the National University of Singapore in Clementi, Singapore. The making of this plugin is for the Building-Integrated Agriculture Project funded by the National Research Foundation Singapore.