Data sources

The sample finding on our homepage uses the Building TimeSeries (BTS) dataset, Site A, an anonymised building in Canberra: Prabowo, Lin, Razzak, Xue, Yap, Amos and Salim (2024). BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset: Raw. figshare, version 3. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.28705559.

Dataset licensed under CC BY 4.0. We selected, resampled and aggregated streams and derived the run hours; occupied hours are an assumed schedule (weekdays 07:00 to 19:00, ACT public holidays off). AHU labels are ours. The dataset’s authors do not endorse Alv.

The page count on our homepage comes from the Medical-Dental Clinic test files, a real two-storey medical and dental clinic in the United States whose information was redacted before release: BSI (2020). Medical-Dental Test Files. buildingSMART International. Community-Sample-Test-Files on GitHub. The points and values on our homepage are from BTS Site A, credited above.

Files licensed under CC BY 4.0. We extracted the text of all 4,112 pages of the clinic’s operation and maintenance documents; the files themselves are unchanged. The files’ publishers do not endorse Alv.