Publications

2026

Schlosser, D., Doi, H., Agugiaro, G., 2026,
A comparative analysis of data requirements for Digital Building Logbooks and Building Renovation Passports in Europe.
Proc. 5th 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Enschede, The Netherlands

Rahmawati, A., Gao, W., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., 2026,
Simulation-based evaluation of tree planting strategies to reduce energy demand of buildings under 2050 climate conditions.
Proc. 5th 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Enschede, The Netherlands

Agugiaro, G., Padsala, R., 2026,
The Energy ADE 3.0: A CityGML Application Domain Extension for Urban Building Energy Modelling.
Proc. 5th 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Enschede, The Netherlands

Auer, F., León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Padsala, R., 2026,
A glimpse of the CityGML Scenario Application Domain Extension.
Proc. 5th 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Enschede, The Netherlands

2025

Roman, O., Bassier, M., Agugiaro, G., Arroyo Ohori, K., Farella, E.M., Remondino, F., 2025,
Scan-to-EDTs: Automated generation of Energy Digital Twins from 3D point clouds.
Buildings, 15(22), 4060

León-Sánchez, C., 2025,
Enhancing urban energy applications through semantic 3D city models and open data - The case of the Netherlands.
Ridderprint,

Agugiaro, G., Padsala, R., 2025,
A proposal to update and enhance the CityGML Energy Application Domain Extension.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 20th 3D GeoInfo Conference, Japan.
X-4/W6-2025, pp. 1-8

Tsai, B.-S., Agugiaro, G., León-Sánchez, C., Yao, Z., Nagel, C., 2025,
Introducing server-side support for 3DCityDB 5.0 to the 3DCityDB-Tools plug-in for QGIS.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 20th 3D GeoInfo Conference, Japan.
X-4/W6-2025, pp. 193-200

León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2025,
🏆Lessons learnt from the integration of open data and semantic 3D city models for urban building energy modelling in the Netherlands.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 9th Smart Data Smart Cities Conference, Japan.
X-4/W7-2025, pp. 89-96

Gao, W., Agugiaro, G., León-Sánchez, C., 2025,
Data-driven energy simulations to evaluate positive energy district potential in Rotterdam.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 9th Smart Data Smart Cities Conference, Japan.
X-4/W7-2025, pp. 25-32

Gebetsroither-Geringer, E., Padsala, R., Hainoun, A., Agugiaro, G., Biernat, S., Reber, A., Smetschka, B., Gao, W., Horak, D., Falay, B., Coors, V., 2025,
A participatory planning framework using urban digital twins supporting the co-creation of flexible, Positive Energy Districts.
(Schrenk, M., Popovich, V.V., Zeile, P., Elisei, P., Beyer, C., Ryser, J., Trattnig, U., eds) REAL CORP 2025 Proceedings/Tagungsband, pp. 65-76. Graz, Austria, 14-16 April. ISBN 978-3-9504945-4-9.

León-Sánchez, C., Giannelli, D., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2025,
Comparative Analysis of Geospatial Tools for Solar Simulation.
Transactions in GIS, 9(1)

2024

Roman, O., Mazzacca, G., Farella, E. M., Remondino, F., Bassier, M., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Towards automated BIM and BEM model generation using a B-Rep-based method with topological map.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-4-2024, pp. 287–294

Xu, L., León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2024,
High resolution solar potential computation in large scale urban areas by means of semantic 3D city models.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W11-2024, pp. 167–174

Tsai, B.-S., Huizer, L., Giampaolo, M., Monté, S., Gong, S., García González, F.G., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Integration of GIS and CAD data to perform interactive preliminary environmental analyses at district scale.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W10-2024, pp. 169–176

Xu, L., León Sánchez, C., 2024,
Urban solar potential analysis through semantic 3D city models.
Proc. 3rd 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Delft, The Netherlands TU Delft OPEN Publishing, pp. 55-57

Tsai, B.-S., Huizer, L., Giampaolo, M., Monté, S., Gong, S., García González, F.G., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Integration of GIS and CAD data to perform preliminary environmental analyses at district scale.
Proc. 3rd 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Delft, The Netherlands TU Delft OPEN Publishing, pp. 59-62

Van Veghel, J., Dane, G., Agugiaro, G., Borgers, A., 2024,
Human-centric computational urban design: Optimizing high-density urban areas to enhance human well-being.
Journal of Computational Urban Science, 4,13

Bachert, C., León-Sánchez, C., Kutzner, T., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Mapping the CityGML Energy ADE to CityGML 3.0 using a model-driven approach.
ISPRS Int. Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI, 2024, 13(4)

2023

Agugiaro, G., Peters, R., Stoter, J., Dukai, B., 2023,
Computing volumes and surface areas including party walls for the 3DBAG data set.
TU Delft/3DGI, Report,

Agugiaro, G., Pantelios, K., León-Sánchez, C., Yao, Z., Nagel, C., 2024,
Introducing the 3DCityDB-Tools plug-in for QGIS.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science - Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference, Springer, pp. 797–821

Lehner, H., Kordasch, S.L., Glatz, C., Agugiaro, G., 2024,
Digital geoTwin: a CityGML-based data model for the virtual replica of the City of Vienna.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science - Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference, Springer, pp. 517–541

Xu, L., León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2024,
Shadowing calculation on urban areas from semantic 3D city models.
Recent Advances in 3D Geoinformation Science - Proceedings of the 18th 3D GeoInfo Conference, Springer, pp. 31–47

León Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2023,
Findings in the calculation of solar irradiance in urban areas using several GIS tools.
Proc. 2nd 4TU/14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment, Eindhoven, The Netherlands TU Delft OPEN Publishing, pp. 55-57

2022

Lehner, H., Kordasch, S.L., Glatz, C., Agugiaro, G., 2022,
Digitaler geoZwilling - Datenmodell für ein virtuelles Abbild der Stadt Wien.
vgi - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung und Geoinformation, 3/2022, pp. 138-167

Agugiaro, G., Zwamborn, A., Tigchelaar, C., Matthijssen, E., León-Sánchez, C., Van der Molen, F., Stoter, J., 2022,
On the influence of party walls for Urban Energy Modelling.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W5-2022, pp. 9–16

León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2022,
Creation of a CityGML-Based 3D City Model Testbed for Energy-Related Applications.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W5-2022, pp. 97–103

Tufan, Ö., Ohori, K.A., León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2022,
Development and testing of the CityJSON energy extension for space heating demand calculation.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W4-2022, pp. 169–176

Giannelli, D., León-Sánchez, C., Agugiaro, G., 2022,
Comparison and evaluation of different GIS software tools to estimate solar irradiation.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., V-4-2022, pp. 285–282

2021

León-Sánchez, C., Giannelli, D., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2021,
Testing the new 3D BAG dataset for energy demand estimation of residential buildings.
ISPRS Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W1-2021, pp. 69–76

Widl, E., Agugiaro, G., Peters-Anders, J., 2021,
Linking semantic 3D city models with domain-specific simulation tools for the planning and validation of energy applications at district level.
Sustainability, 2021, 13(16), 8782;

2020

Agugiaro, G., García González, F.G., Cavallo, R., 2020,
The city of tomorrow from... the data of today.
ISPRS Int. Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI, 2020, 9(9), 554.

Ruben, P.A., Sileryte, R., Agugiaro, G., 2020,
3D city models for urban mining: point cloud based semantic enrichment for spectral variation identification in hyperspectral imagery.
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., V-4-2020, pp. 223–230

Wang, C.-K., Tindemans, S., Miller, C., Agugiaro, G., Stoter, J., 2020,
Bayesian calibration at the urban scale: a case study on a large residential heating demand application in Amsterdam.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2020, 13(3), pp. 347-361, ISSN: 1940-1507.

Software

All our open-source software resources as published on GitHub.

• 3D Geoinformation group at TU Delft

Besides our own tools, here you can find other software resources we also nornally use on a daily basis

• CityGML 3D City Database
• PostgreSQL with its PostGIS extension
• KIT ModelViewer
• SimStadt 2.0
• CitySim Pro
• Duck DB
• QGIS
• FME
• Enterprise Architect

Other resources

We offer some additional open-access tutorials, crash courses, and self-learning material, also covering some of the software tools listed before.

• Open-access self-learning material

Other publications, interviews, and media — not necessarily academic.

• Interview with TU Delft OPEN Publishing (2024)
• Interview with Innovation Origins (2024)