Building energy performance forecasting: A multiple linear regression approach

G Ciulla, A D'Amico - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Different ways to evaluate the building energy balance can be found in literature, including
comprehensive techniques, statistical and machine-learning methods and hybrid …

Forecasting peak electricity demand for Los Angeles considering higher air temperatures due to climate change

D Burillo, MV Chester, S Pincetl, ED Fournier, J Reyna - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Los Angeles County (LAC) is a large urbanized region with 9.7 million residents (as
of 2010) and aging infrastructure. Population forecasts indicate that LAC will become home …

Predicting air temperatures in a naturally ventilated nearly zero energy building: Calibration, validation, analysis and approaches

A O'Donovan, PD O'Sullivan, MD Murphy - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
As the cooling energy demand in buildings is set to increase dramatically in the future, the
exploitation of passive solutions like natural ventilation could prove vital in reducing the …

Low carbon heating and cooling of residential buildings in cities in the hot summer and cold winter zone-A bottom-up engineering stock modeling approach

X Li, R Yao, W Yu, X Meng, M Liu, A Short… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Building stock modeling can predict stock energy consumption and carbon emissions for
both current and future conditions to inform building design and retrofitting policies. A'bottom …

Occupant behavior in identical residential buildings: A case study for occupancy profiles extraction and application to building performance simulation

A Muroni, I Gaetani, PJ Hoes, JLM Hensen - Building Simulation, 2019 - Springer
This study employs a simplified Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) to extract
occupancy, equipment and light use profiles from a database referred to 12 all-electric …

Development of thermal comfort-based controller and potential reduction of the cooling energy consumption of a residential building in Kuwait

J Park, T Kim, C Lee - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
In Kuwait, where the government subsidizes approximately 95% of residential electricity
bills, most of the country's energy consumption is for residential use. In particular, air …

Building energy model calibration using automated optimization-based algorithm

S Asadi, E Mostavi, D Boussaa, M Indraganti - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Multiple numbers of Building Energy Simulation (BES) programs have been
improved and implemented during the last decades. BES models play a crucial role in …

Understanding the adoption and usage of data analytics and simulation among building energy management professionals: A nationwide survey

C Srivastava, Z Yang, RK Jain - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving the energy-efficiency of our building stock is critical to meeting our worldwide
sustainability goals. In response to this need, two key tools have emerged to help engineers …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-sectoral approach to modelling community energy demand of the built environment

P McCallum, DP Jenkins, AD Peacock, S Patidar… - Energy Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examines the major challenges associated with evaluating energy demand in the
residential building sector in an integrated energy system modelling environment. Three …

A numerical model to investigate non-gray photothermal characteristics of paraffin-containing glazed windows

D Li, B Wang, Q Li, C Liu, M Arıcı, Y Wu - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Most of numerical methods developed for the photothermal transfer researches of the
paraffin-containing glazed windows adopt the gray-body model, in which the spectrum …