Chengcheng Song (宋乘成)

I am a doctoral student at the College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University. My advisor is Professor Yixing Chen. Currently, I am involved in the development of the core software AutoBPS for our research group and am committed to providing open-source methods for urban building information acquisition.

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News
  • [2025/06] Our paper "Energy-saving potential of cool roofs at the urban scale: A case study of Xiamen city" was published in Energy and Buildings.
  • [2025/03] Our paper "Developing urban building energy models for shanghai city with multi-source open data" has been recognized as Highly Cited Paper in Web of Science!
  • [2025/03] Our paper "Demand Flexibility of Pre-Cooling Strategies for City-Scale Buildings Through Urban Building Energy Modeling" was published in Buildings.
  • [2025/03] Our paper "CityEL: A web-based platform to support city-scale building energy efficiency based on AutoBPS" was published in Sustainable Cities and Society.
  • [2025/01] Our paper "UAV-BIM-BEM: An automatic unmanned aerial vehicles-based building energy model generation platform" was published in Energy and Buildings.
  • [2024/10] Our paper "A review of current research on occupant-centric control for improving comfort and energy efficiency" was published in Building Simulation.
  • [2024/04] Our paper "Developing urban building energy models for shanghai city with multi-source open data" was published in Sustainable Cities and Society.
  • [2024/03] Our paper "Analysis of Peak Demand Reduction and Energy Saving in a Mixed-Use Community through Urban Building Energy Modeling" was published in Energies.
  • [2024/02] Our paper "Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China" was published in Building Simulation.
  • [2023/10] Our paper "Enhanced Operation of Ice Storage System for Peak Load Management in Shopping Malls across Diverse Climate Zones" was published in Sustainability.
  • [2023/09] Our paper "An emergency aircraft evacuation simulation considering passenger overtaking and luggage retrieval" was published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

Research

🌟 Research Interests: My research focuses on Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM), pedestrian evacuation, building energy, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence. I am primarily dedicated to leveraging artificial intelligence and remote sensing technologies to obtain foundational information for large-scale modeling.

🛠️ Skills & Tools: I am proficient in a variety of professional software and tools, including: TypeScript, Cesium, Python, Ruby, AnyLogic, LaTeX, EnergyPlus, ArcGIS, and QGIS.

Publications

📚 Selected Papers
Energy-saving potential of cool roofs at the urban scale: A case study of Xiamen city [PDF]
Chengcheng Song, Yixing Chen*
Energy and Buildings, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF=7.1)

This work develops an urban building energy modeling (UBEM) framework that integrates actual roof reflectance data from satellite imagery to evaluate the energy-saving potential and economic viability of cool roof retrofits in Xiamen, China. It quantifies energy and peak load reductions for various cool roof technologies and identifies cost-effective buildings for retrofits.

CityEL: A web-based platform to support city-scale building energy efficiency based on AutoBPS [PDF]
Chengcheng Song, Jingjing Yang, Zhiyuan Wang, Ruoheng Li, Xiufeng Pang, Yixing Chen*
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF=12.0)

CityEL (City Energy Lab) is a web-based platform for urban building energy efficiency. Unlike traditional UBEM tools, it focuses on rapid modeling and neighborhood-scale analysis, using GIS and AutoBPS to streamline energy benchmarking, retrofit evaluation, and cost analysis.

Developing urban building energy models for shanghai city with multi-source open data [PDF]
Chengcheng Song, Zhang Deng, Wenxian Zhao, Yue Yuan, Mengyue Liu, Shen Xu, Yixing Chen*
Sustainable Cities and Society , 2024. (JCR Q1, IF=12.0)

This work integrates open data to model Shanghai's building energy use, covering 609,000 footprints. Using machine learning, 63 building prototypes were classified with 95% accuracy, and energy simulations aligned with benchmarks. The approach improves urban energy modeling for sustainability planning.

An emergency aircraft evacuation simulation considering passenger overtaking and luggage retrieval [PDF]
Chengcheng Song, Quan Shao*, Pei Zhu, Min Dong, Wenfei Yu
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023. (JCR Q1, IF=11.0)

This work models cabin evacuation with cellular automata, analyzing how luggage retrieval and overtaking behaviors impact efficiency. Results show luggage retrieval hinders evacuation most, but effective crew guidance can improve safety.

📑 Other Publications

  • Demand Flexibility of Pre-Cooling Strategies for City-Scale Buildings Through Urban Building Energy Modeling [PDF]
    A Xu, C Song, W Zhao, Y Chen* Buildings, 15(7), 1051, 2025. (JCR Q2, IF=3.1)
  • UAV-BIM-BEM: An automatic unmanned aerial vehicles-based building energy model generation platform [PDF]
    H Guo, Z Chen, X Chen, J Yang, C Song, Y Chen*
    Energy and Buildings, 328, 115120, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF=7.1)
  • An occupant-centric control case study based on internet of things and data mining for an office space [PDF]
    Y Yuan, C Song, K Zeng, L Gao, Y Huang, Y Chen*
    Journal of Building Engineering, 101, 111925, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF=7.4)
  • Analysis of Peak Demand Reduction and Energy Saving in a Mixed-Use Community through Urban Building Energy Modeling [PDF]
    W Zhao, Z Deng, Y Ji, C Song, Y Yuan, Z Wang, Y Chen*
    Energies, 17(5), 1214, 2024. (JCR Q3, IF=2.99)
  • A review of current researchon occupant-centric control for improving comfort and energy efficiency [PDF]
    Y Yuan, C Song, L Gao, K Zeng, Y Chen*
    Building Simulation, 17(10), 1675-1692, 2024. (JCR Q1, IF=5.9)
  • Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China [PDF]
    Z Ren, Y Chen*, C Song, M Liu, A Xu, Q Zhang
    Building Simulation, 17(2), 235-252, 2024 (JCR Q1, IF=5.9)
  • Enhanced Operation of Ice Storage System for Peak Load Management in Shopping Malls across Diverse Climate Zones [PDF]
    F Su, Z Wang, Y Yuan, C Song, K Zeng, Y Chen*, R Zhang
    Sustainability, 15(20), 14759, 2023. (JCR Q2/Q3, IF=3.3)
  • Rapid Building Energy Modeling Using Prototype Model and Automatic Model Calibration for Retrofit Analysis with Uncertainty [PDF]
    Y Chen*, W Wei, C Song, Z Ren, Z Deng
    Buildings, 13(6), 1427, 2023. (JCR Q2, IF=3.1)
  • An Adaptive Airspace Model for Quadcopters in Urban Air Mobility [PDF]
    Q Shao*; R Li; M Dong; C Song
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2, 1702-1711, 2022. (JCR Q1, IF=7.9)
  • Assessing the Potential of Open Data for Expanding the Urban Building Dataset: A case study in Huangpu District, Shanghai [PDF]
    C Song, Y Chen*, Z Deng, Y Yuan
    Building Simulation, 18, 900-907, 2023. Conference Paper.
  • Investigation on air-conditioning energy usage in educational office buildings based on sensing and clustering [PDF]
    Y Yuan, Y Chen*, C Song, Y He
    Building Simulation, 18, 8-15, 2023. Conference Paper.