URBAN MODELING

umi versions 1.0 and 2.0 were developped with support from a National Science Foundation EFRI_SEED project, the MIT Energy Initiative, the Kuwait-MIT Center, the Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES) at KACST and MIT and Transsolar Climate Engineering. Later verisons have been supported by the MIT Portugal Program and the MITEI Future Energy Systems Center... 2012: Cody Rose developed umi's modular simulation backbone including a flexible SQLite database to store simulation results from different modules within one file. Timur Dogan devleoped the umi Urban Daylight and umi Operational Energy plugins. Carlos Cerezo wrote the umi Embodied Energy plugin. Tarek Rakha and Cody Rose developed the umi Walkability module. Cody Rose also started the umi Site module... 2013: A first public version of umi was released during a public symposium on Sustainable Urban Design on May 6th 2013 at MIT.