Building simulation 2019: 16th IBPSA international conference and exhibition

The Editorial refers to the Special Issue of invited papers from Building Simulation 2019, the 16th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition, organized by IBPSA-Italy and held in Rome from the 2nd to the 4th of September 2019. The published papers cover a broad range of building simulation applications, together providing a significant view of the current trends in this research field. The papers are aimed at both new and existing buildings – approaches taken include development of data driven models, integration of multiple existing tools to assess the overall building performance or to support building design and control. Most of the papers used case studies to validate the developed methodology or the implemented models, along with monitored data to feed models, carry out their training, calibration and validation.