What is this?
EUBUCCO is a scientific database of individual building footprints for 322+ million buildings across the 27 European Union countries, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK, together with four main attributes – building type, height, floors, and construction year – included for respectively 45%, 43%, 20%, 16% of the buildings. EUBUCCO is composed of 55 open government datasets (62.2%), OpenStreetMap (17.4%), and Microsoft building footprints (20.4%) that have been collected, harmonized and partly validated.
EUBUCCO provides the basis for high-resolution urban sustainability studies across scales – continental, comparative or local studies – using a centralized source and is relevant for a variety of use cases, e.g. for energy system analysis or natural hazard risk assessments.
How was this made?
This work is associated with a Data Descriptor paper published in the journal Scientific Data. The manuscript provides extensive documentation on the database content and methodology. All the code used to generate this data is openly available on the EUBUCCO GitHub organization.
If you use the data for your project, please use the following citation:
People
This project is hosted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Technical University Berlin, in the research group headed by Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig. The development since v0.2 was led by Florian Nachtigall, with Nikola Milojevic-Dupont and Felix Wagner previously serving as project leads.
Funding
The project is funded by the Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg, and CircEUlar project of the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement 101056810.
Contact
For any question or suggestion, please open a GitHub issue or write to nachtigall(at)tu-berlin.de.