Most thermal comfort standards and guidelines currently in use do not consider occupants'
adaptive capabilities associated with real-world situations when predicting occupant thermal …

Peak load management strategies are useful to commercial building operators for saving on
energy costs and also to electricity grid operators for helping to balance power supply and …

This article presents a demand response scheduling model in a residential community using
an energy management system aggregator. The aggregator manages a set of resources …

Producing food in an environmentally sustainable way for the growing human population is
a challenge to the global food system. Vertical farm (VF) as a part of the solution portfolio is …

The concept of a smart city is assumed to use resources more efficiently and in an
innovative, creative, and intelligent manner. Initial experience with implementing this …

The building sector is responsible for a significant share of the global energy consumption
(almost 40%) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (one‐third of the total). Nearly zero …

Positive energy buildings (PEB) are foreseen to help achieving global emissions reduction
targets and decarbonisation. However, for vertical office spaces in urban centres the …

The rapid development of smart home systems requires a transition of thermal comfort
studies. A feasible, user-friendly, consumer-oriented thermal comfort assessment method for …

In developed countries, a significant increase in energy consumption was seen in these
several years due to the growing demand of HVAC system to achieve thermal comfort in the …

Buildings have become a key source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to the
consumption of primary energy, especially when used to achieve thermal comfort conditions …