Neighbourhood Modelling for Urban Sustainability Assessment

Climate change is becoming a dominant concern for advanced countries. The Paris Agreement sets out global framework whose implementation relates to all human activities and commonly guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which set scene sustainable development performance configuring climate action related policies. Fast control of CO2 emissions necessarily involves cities since they are responsible 70 percent greenhouse gas emissions. SDG 11 (Sustainable communities) clearly involved in deployment 13 (Climate Action). European Sustainability policies financially Green Deal neutral urban environment. In turn, common policy impact assessment must be based on architectural design tools, such as building certification, data repositories standard digital models. Many Neighbourhood Assessment (NSA) tools have been developed but growing availability open cities, together with big-data sources (provided through Internet Things repositories), allow accurate neighbourhood simulations, or other words, twins neighbourhoods. These excellent assessment. After careful analysis current scientific literature, this paper provides generic approach simple model from physical parameters meets relevant requirements, while simultaneously being updated (and tested) against real repositories, how certification tools. proposal validated energy consumption its application Benicalap Valencia (Spain).