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UAB team is developing AI digital twins for building retrofit planning

UAB team is developing AI digital twins for building retrofit planning. The University of Alabama and UAB are undertaking a three-year NSF-supported digital-twin project for building audits and retrofit simulations.

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UAB researchers will develop AI agents using knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation to find and reason over building data, documents and analytical tools. The project aims to connect measurements and inspection information with energy models. The announcement reports no completed tool or measured building-energy savings.

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    UAB team is developing AI digital twins for building retrofit planning

    UAB team is developing AI digital twins for building retrofit planning. The University of Alabama and UAB are undertaking a three-year NSF-supported digital-twin project for building audits and retrofit simulations.

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