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Due to demands caused by climate change, the energy sector is undergoing a rapid transition. Buildings and communities become increasingly electrified and they need to become key contributors for aiding integration of renewables at scale. Their energy systems provide an opportunity to integrate and optimize renewables and storage across multiple prosumers and energy carriers. This leads not only to new system architectures and control challenges, but also to new requirements on design flows that can manage the increased complexity. After laying out these challenges, we will present recent progress on new generation computational tools for building and district energy and control systems. We will also present new tool chains that allow for rapid system-level prototyping, model-based design flow, and digitization of the control delivery process. We will close with a discussion about what foundation our community should build to meet design and operation challenges of new energy systems.