Projects
Research becomes application.
In research and development projects, we combine scientific methods with practical application. Our goal is to create digital tools that make complex issues understandable and usable.
CoolingMap
The digital cooling cadastre for climate-resilient cities.
Cities are getting hotter – planning tools need to be smarter.
Summer heat periods are occurring more frequently and lasting longer. Particularly densely built inner cities are affected by the urban heat island effect: buildings and sealed surfaces store heat and increase the burden on people and infrastructure.
CoolingMap complements existing heat and energy planning with a previously often missing perspective: building-level analysis of future cooling needs.
The project combines geodata, artificial intelligence, building modeling and urban energy simulations to visualize current and future cooling needs. The goal is a digital cooling cadastre that allows buildings, districts and cities to be analyzed in a differentiated way and different future scenarios to be mapped.
Our Role in the Project
Enpageo is a research consortium partner of CoolingMap and is responsible for visualizing and publishing the project results.
Data & Geoinformatics
Processing spatial building and energy data as a basis for analysis.
Visualization
Development of understandable maps and digital representations that make complex results intuitively accessible.
Publication
Development of the digital application for publishing and using the project results.
From Research Project to Digital Tool.
Making knowledge visible – and usable for planning.
CoolingMap should show where future cooling needs can arise, how they develop and what spatial patterns result. This creates a new data foundation for climate-adapted urban planning, building strategies and future energy infrastructure.
Research Consortium
The joint project "CoolingMap – Creation of a building-level cadastre for the analysis and forecasting of cooling requirements in exemplary urban regions in Germany using AI image recognition, building modeling, neural networks and geoinformatics" runs from 2026 to 2029 and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE).
Funding identifier: 03EN6063A/B/C/D/E/F/G
Learn more about CoolingMap