## 5 Conclusions  
The IFC-based BPS approach has the capability to reduce the effort for setting up models of design variants for energy and thermal comfort analysis of buildings. The template-based approach assists in rapidly filling in missing thermal comfort parameters. However, the application engineers should be aware of the simplifications that come with the template-based enrichment and should validate the model and its results for plausibility. With the use of our proposed IFC-based thermal comfort analysis plugin for the bim2 sim tool, buildings providing IFC data in the design phase can quickly be evaluated for their robustness towards climate change. In this way, design variants can be tested for their resilience regarding different climate change scenarios. **Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, V.E.R. and J.F. ; methodology, V.E.R. and M.S. ; software, V.E.R. ; validation, V.E.R. ; formal analysis, V.E.R. ; investigation, V.E.R. ; resources, V.E.R. ; data curation, V.E.R. ; writing--original draft preparation, V.E.R. and M.S. ; writing--review and editing, V.E.R., M.S. and J.F. ; visualization, V.E.R. ; supervision, J.F. and C.v.T. ; project administration, V.E.R. ; funding acquisition, V.E.R., J.F. and C.v.T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. **Funding:** This research was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action within the project \"BIM2 Praxis\" (grant number 3 EN1050A). **Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable. **Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable. **Data Availability Statement:** The source code of the _bim2 sim_ tool is available on github: [[https://github.com/BIM2](https://github.com/BIM2) SIM/bim2 sim]([https://github.com/BIM2](https://github.com/BIM2) SIM/bim2 sim), accessed on 12 November 2023. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results. **Abbreviations**  
The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} BPS & Building Performance Simulation \\ BIM & Building Information Modeling \\ CFD & Computational Fluid Dynamics \\ CMIP & Coupled Model Intercomparison Project \\ IFC & Industry Foundation Classes \\ IPCC & Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change \\ IQR & Interquartile Range \\ LCA & Life Cycle Assessment \\ ML & Machine Learning \\ PMV & Predicted Mean Vote \\ PPD & Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied \\ \end{tabular}   
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**(1) Room Type** & **(2)** & **(3)** & **(4) ASIRAE Fundamentals** & **(5) ISO 7730** & **(6)** & **(7)** & **(8)** & **Activity** & **(9)** & **(10) Heat flow** & **(11)** \\  & & & & & & & & & **Degree (me)** & & **(W/person)** & \\ \hline Commercial and industrial Halls–medium & 1.6 & 80 & Machine work, light (electrical industry) & B.1, Standing, medium activity & 2.2 & 2 & 2.1 & 0.5 & 220 & 140 \\ Commercial and industrial Halls–light & 1.2 & 70 & Machine work, saving & B.1, Standing, light activity & 1.8 & 1.6 & 1.7 &