It has been proven that advanced building control, like model predictive control (MPC), can
notably reduce the energy use and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite …

Implementing an efficient control strategy for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems can lead to improvements in both energy efficiency and thermal …

Because the building sector has become a huge energy consumer, providing useful
approaches can help tackle this important issue. Windows are an important component of a …

Sensitivity analysis plays an important role in building energy analysis. It can be used to
identify the key variables affecting building thermal performance from both energy simulation …

Building design is quite a complicated task with the design team trying to counterbalance
various antagonistic parameters, which in turn are subject to various constraints. Due to this …

Many studies have proven that the building sector can significantly benefit from replacing the
current practice rule-based controllers (RBC) by more advanced control strategies like …

Retrofit actions applied to the existent building stock aim at increasing the energy
performance, considering the optimal trade-off between energy savings and costs …

A building system is highly nonlinear and commonly includes a variety of parameters
ranging from the architectural design to the building mechanical and energy system. Serving …

The majority of decisions in the building design process are taken in the early design stage.
This delicate phase presents the greatest opportunity to obtain high performance buildings …

This paper provides a systematic approach for quantifying the influence of building size,
construction category, climate, occupancy schedule, setpoint, and deadband on HVAC …