Chengcheng Song (宋乘成)

Postdoctoral Researcher

National University of Defense Technology

My research spans urban building energy modeling (UBEM), UAV-based urban 3D reconstruction, and large-scale building information acquisition, with an emphasis on connecting remote sensing, computer vision, and physics-based simulation.

Portrait of Chengcheng Song

News

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

Research

I develop data-driven methods for understanding buildings at urban scale, from reconstructing accurate 3D geometry with UAV imagery to translating building information into energy models and decision-support tools.

Urban 3D Reconstruction UAV photogrammetry, computer vision, geometric modeling, and city-scale building reconstruction.
Urban Building Energy Modeling Scalable UBEM workflows, prototype buildings, calibration, and retrofit assessment.
Building Information Acquisition Remote sensing, multi-source urban data, machine learning, and automated model generation.

Skills: TypeScript, Cesium, Python, Ruby, AnyLogic, LaTeX, EnergyPlus, ArcGIS, and QGIS.

Publications

Selected Papers

Urban building energy modeling results for Xiamen
Energy-saving potential of cool roofs at the urban scale: A case study of Xiamen city
PDF JCR Q1 · IF 8.0
Chengcheng Song, Yixing Chen*
Energy and Buildings, 2025.

This work develops a UBEM framework that integrates satellite-derived roof reflectance to evaluate the energy-saving potential and economic viability of cool-roof retrofits across Xiamen.

CityEL urban building energy platform
CityEL: A web-based platform to support city-scale building energy efficiency based on AutoBPS
PDF JCR Q1 · IF 13.3
Chengcheng Song, Jingjing Yang, Zhiyuan Wang, Ruoheng Li, Xiufeng Pang, Yixing Chen*
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025.

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.

Urban building energy model of Shanghai
Developing urban building energy models for Shanghai city with multi-source open data
PDF JCR Q1 · IF 13.3
Chengcheng Song, Zhang Deng, Wenxian Zhao, Yue Yuan, Mengyue Liu, Shen Xu, Yixing Chen*
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024.

This work integrates multi-source open data to model 609,000 building footprints in Shanghai. Machine learning classifies 63 building prototypes with 95% accuracy and supports city-scale energy simulation.

Aircraft evacuation simulation
An emergency aircraft evacuation simulation considering passenger overtaking and luggage retrieval
PDF JCR Q1 · IF 13.7
Chengcheng Song, Quan Shao*, Pei Zhu, Min Dong, Wenfei Yu
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023.

This work models cabin evacuation with cellular automata and quantifies the effects of luggage retrieval and overtaking. The results highlight the value of effective crew guidance for evacuation safety.

Other Publications

  • A comparative analysis of prototype and building-by-building methods for urban building energy modeling in a hot-summer and warm-winter climate zone
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 8.0
    Chengjin Wu, Chengcheng Song, Fangyu Liu, Anni Xu, Yixing Chen*
    Energy and Buildings, 352, 116788, 2026.
  • Demand Flexibility of Pre-Cooling Strategies for City-Scale Buildings Through Urban Building Energy Modeling
    PDF JCR Q2 · IF 3.4
    A Xu, C Song, W Zhao, Y Chen*
    Buildings, 15(7), 1051, 2025.
  • UAV-BIM-BEM: An automatic unmanned aerial vehicles-based building energy model generation platform
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 8.0
    H Guo, Z Chen, X Chen, J Yang, C Song, Y Chen*
    Energy and Buildings, 328, 115120, 2025.
  • An occupant-centric control case study based on internet of things and data mining for an office space
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 8.1
    Y Yuan, C Song, K Zeng, L Gao, Y Huang, Y Chen*
    Journal of Building Engineering, 101, 111925, 2025.
  • Analysis of Peak Demand Reduction and Energy Saving in a Mixed-Use Community through Urban Building Energy Modeling
    PDF JCR Q3 · IF 3.9
    W Zhao, Z Deng, Y Ji, C Song, Y Yuan, Z Wang, Y Chen*
    Energies, 17(5), 1214, 2024.
  • A review of current research on occupant-centric control for improving comfort and energy efficiency
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 6.9
    Y Yuan, C Song, L Gao, K Zeng, Y Chen*
    Building Simulation, 17(10), 1675-1692, 2024.
  • Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 6.9
    Z Ren, Y Chen*, C Song, M Liu, A Xu, Q Zhang
    Building Simulation, 17(2), 235-252, 2024.
  • Enhanced Operation of Ice Storage System for Peak Load Management in Shopping Malls across Diverse Climate Zones
    PDF JCR Q2/Q3 · IF 4.1
    F Su, Z Wang, Y Yuan, C Song, K Zeng, Y Chen*, R Zhang
    Sustainability, 15(20), 14759, 2023.
  • Rapid Building Energy Modeling Using Prototype Model and Automatic Model Calibration for Retrofit Analysis with Uncertainty
    PDF JCR Q2 · IF 3.4
    Y Chen*, W Wei, C Song, Z Ren, Z Deng
    Buildings, 13(6), 1427, 2023.
  • An Adaptive Airspace Model for Quadcopters in Urban Air Mobility
    PDF JCR Q1 · IF 9.1
    Q Shao*, R Li, M Dong, C Song
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2, 1702-1711, 2022.
  • 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.