CBED

Database for Building Energy in China

What is the CBED?

The database comprises five datasets. The meteorological information dataset includes temperature, humidity, wind, atmospheric pressure, and solar radiation. The building thermal design dataset includes indoor and outdoor data, such as outdoor design conditions for building thermal design and parameters for natural ventilation in summer. The HVAC design dataset also covers indoor and outdoor data, such as design conditions for HVAC and design days in winter and summer. The meteorological year dataset for building energy consumption simulation includes typical meteorological year data. The thermal comfort dataset includes indoor and outdoor environments data. Based on meteorological source data, we have developed a database for building energy, covering 1,019 cities and towns in China from 1988 to 2017, with more than 2 billion records. We have launched an application offering intuitive data presentation, user-friendly analysis tools, and highly compatible data formats to support researchers, educators, and engineering professionals in the building with data acquisition, analysis, and sharing. The application, as a platform for sharing the data for building energy, is accessible at https://buildingdata.xauat.edu.cn/.

Repository

The database files are located in the /sql directory, and the open source code for the site is in the /web directory, which has the following directory structure.

/sql
/web
├── /frontend        # front-end
├── /app_front       # mobile-app
└── /backend         # back-end

Installation

1. Clone

Clone this repository and sql import the data tables to mysql:

git clone https://github.com/buildingdata/CBED-portal.git

2. Download dependencies

Navigate to the /web/backend project directory and run it:

mvn clean install

This will download all required dependencies and compile the project.

3. Run project

Run the application using the following command:

mvn spring-boot:run

This will start the embedded server (usually Tomcat).

4. View

Once the server is up, open your browser and go to:

http://localhost:8080

Open data

This code repository is shared for scientific data.

License

The code is available under the GPL-3.0 license