Our recent paper looks at investment returns to building energy retrofits. Attractive returns (~20% IRR) and reasonable energy savings (~5%-10%/year) are not sufficient to motivate many building owners to invest. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2… @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP @BerkeleyLab

Bias in smart city governance: our recent paper in Sustainable Cities & Society, supported by @NSF doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.1…

My latest paper w/ @Yuan_Lai_ brings natural language processing to building permit data to explore patterns of renovation & reuse in cities. Exciting to see just how much knowledge can be extracted from municipal building dept. data sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP

I am happy to share, in partnership with the NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability @NYClimate, the link to our new building energy performance & carbon emissions platform: on.nyc.gov/benchmarkingmap @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP

Congratulations to @nyutandon @NYU_CUSP @NYUMarron PhD candidates @sokratisp_ & @Yuan_Lai_ for successfully defending their dissertations! Dr. Papadopoulos & Dr. Lai are outstanding additions to the #urbaninformatics & #urbanscience research community. Great work!

12/Finally, our most recent collaboration with @NYClimate is an interactive GHG inventory data analysis tool: nyc-ghg-inventory.cusp.nyu.e… where you can query and download NYC GHG data back to 2005.

12/ And to better understand the implications of building shape and massing on energy use, we’ve modeled the morphology of every building in NYC down to ~10cm accuracy using a 4 billion point cloud #LIDAR dataset: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

11/ @NYCMayor recently questioned the efficiency of glass curtainwall buildings. For some analysis behind this, take a look at my study of energy use in more than 10,000 NYC buildings: link.springer.com/article/10… and more recent work: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

10/Street trees and green space can make a big difference on health & well-being in cities. Leveraging @NYCParks amazing #treecensus data, we examined the role of pollen allergenicity, tree density, pollution, % indoor air quality on respiratory illness: urbanintelligencelab.github.…

9/ 311 data provide a critical link between residents and city government. Working w/ @nyc311 & @DataKCMO, we’ve developed models to understand citizen reporting behavior and improve the fairness of predictive city serice models arxiv.org/abs/1710.02452 & hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.a…