DBSM R2025: EU Digital Building Stock Model

DBSM R2025: EU Digital Building Stock Model / Update including satellite-based attributes

ID 25352 | 17.01.2026

A new version of the EU Digital Building Stock Model including authoritative footprints and per-building estimates for building height, compactness, construction epoch and use

The EU Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM) is designed to provide a comprehensive and detailed geospatial database of individual buildings within the European Union, focusing primarily on their energy-related characteristics, although DBSM has a wide range of applications. The main goal of this initiative is to support key energy policies, such as the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, by facilitating more targeted and informed investment decisions in the context of the building renovation wave. 

DBSM also aims to support the recent European Affordable Housing initiative, for example by enabling more precise "what-if" analyses and assessments of higher granularity. The current report outlines the latest developments in the Digital Building Stock Model dataset, specifically the updated version known as DBSM R2025.

This new iteration offers significant enhancements over its predecessor, including more precise and detailed building polygons, as well as an expanded collection of building attributes and a complete EU-27 geographic coverage (including Azores, Madeira and Canary islands).

These attributes encompass a range of factors such as building height, compactness, epoch of construction, and use type. The report provides an in-depth examination of the methodological approach employed in the development of these enhancements and discusses the validation processes undertaken to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data.
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Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database
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Rooftop PV electricity generation potential at NUTS3

Fig. 3 | Rooftop PV potential in the European Union for non-residential buildings. 

Rooftop PV potential in the European Union for non-residential buildings a, Choropleth map of the potential rooftop PV electricity generation, TWh km⁻² at Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics classification (NUTS3) regional level for NRBs with floor areas exceeding 250 m². b, Heat map of the rooftop PV technical capacity potential (GWp) for NRBs across floor area category (0 m²–250 m², 250 m²–1,000 m², 1,000 m²–2,000 m² and over 2,000 m²), following the EPBD classification. Countries are sorted from higher to lower rooftop PV capacity for the 2,000-m² floor area category.

See https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tutorial:Country_codes_and_protocol_order for country abbreviations.

Basemap data in a from Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/statistical-units/territorial-units-statistics under a Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. Source data

https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/a601a4a8-9289-4fc4-983a-25d54f957f3a

Allegati

Allegati

	Descrizione	Lingua	Dimensioni	Downloads
	Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database	EN	15114 kB	337
	Report DBSM R2025 - EU Digital Building Stock JRC 2025	EN	3880 kB	111