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Buildings · surfaces — Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhoodbldgs composite

Surface bundlesbldgsswedenregional

Composition

This composite is assembled from the entries below. Each evidence record keeps its own scientific review; a separate composition review assesses why these components were selected and how they are mapped.

albedoCentral London london Awaiting sign-off
alb 0.12
emissivityBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
emis 0.95
water_storageBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
storage_drain_params.store_min 0.25 · storage_drain_params.store_max 0.25
drainageBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
storage_drain_params.drain_eq 3 · storage_drain_params.drain_coef_1 10 · storage_drain_params.drain_coef_2 3
constructionArchived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood construction gothenburg Awaiting sign-off
roof [{'material': 'records/materials/generic--unreferenced--clay-tile', 'thickness': 0.054}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--waterproof-roof-covering', 'thickness': 0.005}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--bellucco2017--air', 'thickness': 0.03}] · roof_insulation_layer 5 · wall [{'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--felt-sheathing', 'thickness': 0.001}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood', 'thickness': 0.075}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--plaster-dense', 'thickness': 0.025}]
snow_lim_patchBuildings generic Awaiting sign-off
snowpack_limit 190
ohm · summer_wetRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · summer_dryRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · winter_wetRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · winter_dryRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125

Composition provenance

Curation required

Assembled · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-23. Agent assessment is composition review preparation, not human verification.

Central LondonSelected component

Fills albedo. The record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name 'Central London', place london, representativeness site, applicable_scale land_cover, source ward2016 and method fitted.

BuildingSelected component

Fills emissivity. The record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name 'Building', place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2011 and method literature.

BuildingSelected component

Fills water_storage. The stable Helsinki-path record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name Building, place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2011 and method literature. Its Helsinki origin preserves migration/application lineage; the value is published as a generic Building parameter.

BuildingSelected component

Fills drainage. The record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name 'Building', place generic, representativeness generic and applicable_scale land_cover.

Archived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood constructionSelected component

Fills construction. The record declares target construction, name 'Archived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood construction', place gothenburg, origin 'Gothenburg, Sweden', representativeness city, source unreferenced and method assumed; its wall stack is wood, felt sheathing, wood, wood and dense plaster, with no brick layer.

BuildingsSelected component

Fills snow_lim_patch. The stable path and origin retain Helsinki migration lineage, while the record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name 'Buildings', place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2014 and method literature, and carries snowpack_limit. It is the only buildings snowpack_limit record in the database.

Roof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750]Selected component

Fills the summer_wet, summer_dry, winter_wet and winter_dry ohm slots. The record declares target ohm_coefficients, name 'Roof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750]', place helsinki, representativeness city, source unreferenced and method calculated, and carries no season_label.

Assessment findings

Composite identitycuration required
The name field of the composite reads 'Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhood'. Its construction slot takes records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s, whose own name reads 'Archived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood construction' and whose wall stack is records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood at 0.025 m, records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--felt-sheathing at 0.001 m, records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood at 0.075 m, records/materials/generic--cibse2015--wood at 0.025 m and records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--plaster-dense at 0.025 m. No layer is brick, and the roof is clay tile over wood. The one bjork2002 construction in the database whose wall does carry brick is records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-stone-neighbourhood-city-late-1800s-early-1900s, with records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--brick-protected at 0.29 m, and that record is taken by archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--stone-houses-traditional-neighbourhood. The archetype named for brick therefore has a timber wall while the archetype named for stone has a brick wall. This review does not assert that the two selections were exchanged; it records that the name and the selected construction disagree, and a maintainer must decide which of the two is wrong.
Composite targetsupported
The composite declares target land_cover.bldgs, which agrees with its position under archetypes/surfaces/bldgs. The albedo, emissivity, water_storage, drainage and snow_lim_patch slots each take a record declaring target land_cover.bldgs; the construction slot takes a record declaring target construction; and the four ohm slots take a record declaring target ohm_coefficients. records/ohm/helsinki--jarvi2014--buildings declares no season_label and no wet or dry distinction, so filling summer_wet, summer_dry, winter_wet and winter_dry with the one record is the only mapping its content supports. None of these records declares attaches_to, which in this database appears only on the profile and snow-profile records, so the SUEWS field each slot writes is fixed by the slot name alone and cannot be cross-checked against the component.
Own parameter valuesnot applicable
The composite declares no parameters block, so it overrides no component value.
Composition rationalenot applicable
The composite claims no composition source, and the repository records no published rationale for assembling these particular records into a Swedish brick-house traditional neighbourhood. The sources of the components belong to their own evidence assessments, not to this review.
Place applicabilitycuration required
The composite claims Sweden. Construction is the sole Swedish component, with place gothenburg. Albedo declares london; OHM declares helsinki; emissivity, water storage, drainage and snow_lim_patch are generic. The snow default is forced because it is the only buildings snowpack_limit record; the London albedo choice and predominantly non-Swedish assembly remain the curation questions.
Representativenesscuration required
The regional composite has one site component, albedo; two city components, OHM and construction; and four generic components, emissivity, water storage, drainage and snow_lim_patch. None is regional, so the national-scale composition remains a curation decision.
Slot and season mappingsupported
An assembly of existing records into slots; the composite produces no value of its own.
Completeness and uniquenesssupported
All seven slots are filled, and the four ohm slots take one record, consistent with records/ohm/helsinki--jarvi2014--buildings declaring no season_label. No other archetype in the repository carries an identical uses block, and no other archetype uses records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s. The seven Swedish buildings archetypes form a family that varies in the construction slot throughout, in the albedo slot across the masonry, timber and industry variants, and, for archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--industry alone, in the ohm slots as well; this entry is distinguished from archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--concrete-million-program and archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--stone-houses-traditional-neighbourhood by its construction alone.

Scientific note

Two things are wrong with this composite and they are independent. The first is the name. The entry is called 'Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhood', but the construction it selects, records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s, has a wall of wood, felt sheathing, wood, wood and dense plaster under a clay-tile roof, with no brick anywhere in the stack. The bjork2002 construction that does carry brick, records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-stone-neighbourhood-city-late-1800s-early-1900s with records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--brick-protected at 0.29 m, is the one taken by the archetype named for stone. That is a striking pattern but it is not proof of a swap, and this review will not assert one: what is established is that the label and the selected construction disagree, and a maintainer must decide whether to rename the archetype or reselect its construction. The second problem is scale and place together. The composite claims a Swedish regional typology, yet exactly one component is Swedish; one component is site evidence, two are city evidence and four are generic, so the country default remains assembled from narrower or non-Swedish evidence. Some of that is forced by what the database holds, but the albedo is not: two generic archived configurations with Gothenburg lineage exist, Wood and 'Industry, dark roofs', and neither was taken. The whole Swedish buildings family shares this shape, so it should be settled once rather than seven times. This review does not revisit any component value.

Model-ready fragment

Paste under land_cover.bldgs in a SUEWS YAML configuration; every value carries its citation.

alb:
  value: 0.12
  ref:
    ID: ward2016
    DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2016.05.001
    desc: london, site, land_cover
emis:
  value: 0.95
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2011
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
storage_drain_params:
  store_min:
    value: 0.25
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  store_max:
    value: 0.25
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_eq:
    value: 3
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_coef_1:
    value: 10
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_coef_2:
    value: 3
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
wet_threshold:
  value: 0.25
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2011
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
snowpack_limit:
  value: 190
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2014
    DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1691-2014
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
ohm_coef:
  summer_wet:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  summer_dry:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  winter_wet:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  winter_dry:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet

Composition review

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Composite metadata

Placesweden
Scoperegional
Targetland_cover.bldgs · docs
Origin“Sweden” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 20240005

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