The building sector contributes significantly to overall energy consumption and carbon
emissions. Improving renewable energy utilization in buildings is of considerable …

The emergence of renewable-energy-source (RES) envelope solutions, building retrofit
requirements and advanced energy technologies brought about challenges to the existing …

This paper presents a clustering-based strategy to identify typical daily electricity usage
(TDEU) profiles of multiple buildings. Different from the majority of existing clustering …

Residential flexible load scheduling is playing a more and more vital role in balancing the
supply and demand of utility grids with the increasing penetration of solar and wind power …

The thermal environment is one of the main factors that influences Thermal Comfort and,
consequently, the productivity of the occupants. The poor quality of the indoor environment …

Energy conservation in residential buildings has gained increased attention due to its large
portion of global energy use and potential of energy savings. Occupant behavior has been …

The energy-efficient behaviour of occupants in residential buildings is critical to reducing the
carbon emissions of buildings. However, it is not clear how to motivate occupants, especially …

Developing effective energy use and management strategies requires the knowledge of
determinants and patterns of the electricity usage behavior of different consumers. This …

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of office workers were required to conduct
their work from home. Little is known about the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) …

At present, the structural transformation of energy demand of public buildings in the post-
pandemic era is not well known, and there is also a lack of fine-grained research on energy …