Share Your Success Stories! Have you used our tool on a project? We'd love to hear about it!

Download

Open Building Insights, as an open-source tool, in this way publishes its entire data set as a table in geoParquet format.

Considering the size of the data set the granular building information is provided on a country level and for ease of manipulation it is also available on a County or District level.

Open Building Insights data is shared under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 license.

Download the data set

For the overview of columns see the Glossary page. The geoParquet file occassionally may provide additional raw information about the buildings as additional columns, which are consolidated before shown in the tool, see the attached README file for reference.

When referring to or citing the Open Building Insights (OBI) initiative, please use the following recommended citation format:
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). Open Building Insights (OBI): An Open-Access AI Platform for Building-Level Intelligence to Support Energy and Urban Planning. Developed in collaboration with the IBM Impact Accelerator Program, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and Open Energy Maps (OEMaps), with contributions from multiple institutional collaborators. Sustainable Energy for All, 2025. Available at: https://openbuildinginsights.org
For academic publications (APA format):
Sustainable Energy for All (2025). Open Building Insights (OBI): An Open-Access AI Platform for Building-Level Intelligence to Support Energy and Urban Planning. IBM Impact Accelerator Program; DLR; Open Energy Maps; Sustainable Energy for All. Retrieved from https://openbuildinginsights.org
For web or policy documents reference as:
"Data and analytics provided by the Open Building Insights (OBI) platform, developed by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in collaboration with the IBM Impact Accelerator Program, DLR, and Open Energy Maps."