Assessing the impact of climate change on building heating and cooling energy demand in Canada

U Berardi, P Jafarpur - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the building sector has received increasing attention with attempts to limit its
energy consumptions and GHG emissions. In fact, buildings account for more than 30% of …

Energy-saving potential prediction models for large-scale building: A state-of-the-art review

S Liu, Y Zou, W Ji, Q Zhang, A Ahmed, X Han… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy-saving potential prediction models play a major role in developing retrofit scheme.
Reliable estimation and quantification of energy saving of retrofit measures for these models …

Effects of climate changes on building energy demand and thermal comfort in Canadian office buildings adopting different temperature setpoints

P Jafarpur, U Berardi - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Office buildings are responsible for a substantial portion of the energy demand in the
commercial sector. To better understand and address the impacts of climate change on their …

Making energy simulation easier for future climate–Synthesizing typical and extreme weather data sets out of regional climate models (RCMs)

VM Nik - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Higher availability of future climate data sets, generated by regional climate models (RCMs)
with fine temporal and spatial resolutions, improves and facilitates the impact assessment of …

Building-level and stock-level in contrast: A literature review of the energy performance of buildings during the operational stage

MS Geraldi, E Ghisi - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aimed to review the literature of the past ten years about the energy performance
of buildings during their operational stage. The focus of this review was empirical works that …

[HTML][HTML] A differentiated description of building-stocks for a georeferenced urban bottom-up building-stock model

M Österbring, É Mata, L Thuvander, M Mangold… - Energy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Several building-stock modelling techniques have been employed to investigate the impact
of energy efficiency measures (EEM), where the description of the building-stock generally …

Redefining energy system flexibility for distributed energy system design

ATD Perera, VM Nik, PU Wickramasinghe… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel method is introduced in this study to consider flexibility taking into account both
system design and operation strategy by using fuzzy logic. A stochastic optimization …

The feasibility and importance of considering climate change impacts in building retrofit analysis

P Shen, W Braham, Y Yi - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Current building energy use is projected to increase by 1.7% annually until 2025, and the
great potential for energy reduction in existing buildings has created opportunities in …

[HTML][HTML] Does context matter? Robust building retrofit decision-making for decarbonization across Europe

L Walker, I Hischier, A Schlueter - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Retrofitting the European building stock is a key element of European decarbonization
strategies. Effective retrofit strategies are thus necessary. Multiple studies use robustness …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing school buildings energy efficiency under climate change: A comprehensive analysis of energy, cost, and comfort factors

T Ashrafian - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Incorporating future weather predictions into building assessments is essential for
enhancing resilience, energy efficiency, cost savings, comfort, and sustainable infrastructure …