Populating Alfalfa with BuildStock Models

Alfalfa BuildStock Workflow

NREL's ComStock and ResStock projects generate hundreds of thousands building models to serve as a representative sample of residential and commercial buildings in the United States. This page is a guide on how to leverage these resources to quickly populate a community of buildings in Alfalfa.

Disclaimers

• This workflow and accompanying code is under active development.
• Understanding your use case to select appropriate models, i.e. validation/verification for experiments.

Selecting models

• Where do you find the repository of models.
• What information do you need to record for the next step of the process.

Downloading BuildStock models using the Alfalfa-Client

• How to download the models

Adding Desired Points to Models

• Links to already created measures for these sets?
• BuildStock specific considerations for measure creation.