CRIBE Lab Presents Innovations in Climate-Resilient Building Research at BS2025

It was an amazing week at the Building Simulation Conference 2025 in beautiful Brisbane. Our team, CRIBE Lab, was honored to deliver two research works at the conference.

Research Presentations

1. "A Novel Approach of Hourly Weather Data Downscaling from GCM for Building Performance Simulation" This work presents our newly proposed Distribution Adjusted Temporal Mapping (DATM) methodology, addressing the crucial challenge of generating credible future hourly weather data from monthly GCM outputs. Unlike current methods that struggle with extreme weather conditions, DATM greatly outperforms the conventional morphing approaches in capturing climate variabilities and temperature patterns essential for building resilience analysis. This work provides a foundation for more precise weather projections to help architects design buildings prepared for future climate challenges.

2. "Energy-Efficient Building Spatial Layout Strategies Under Future Climate Change Scenarios" This presentation was delivered by our brilliant Tsinghua SIGS master candidate Yanxiang Yang, who won a well-deserved IBPSA student travel award 2025! This study bridged an important research gap by examining how future climate affects building energy optimization through spatial layout design. Using an energy-efficiency spatial layout generation algorithm developed on the Rhino platform with Python, our work optimized three-dimensional building layouts to minimize annual energy consumption under future climate conditions.

Conference Experience & Networking

Beyond research presentations, the real magic happened in the inter-session discussions. Reconnecting with colleagues and meeting passionate researchers advancing our field was unforgettable.

Sincere thanks to IBPSA Australasia and the organizing team for this exceptional event with impactful discussions on building simulation's role in achieving net zero goals.