Building green retrofit offers significant opportunities for enhancing energy efficiency and
achieving green development goals. However, a conflicting criterion exists between energy …

The building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon
dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building …

Climate-adaptive design, smart control, latent thermal storages, multi-dimensional
uncertainty analysis, and multi-objective optimisations are effective solutions for cooling …

The accurate demand prediction with high efficiency and advanced demand-side controller
are essential for the enhancement of energy flexibility provided by buildings, whereas the …

It has been of great importance to develop better control techniques for heating, ventilation
and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to provide occupancy driven energy and comfort …

With the continuous consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, the
environmental energy problem has become the focus of attention in the world. The utilization …

Stratum ventilation can energy efficiently provide good inhaled indoor air quality with a
proper operation (eg, fresh outdoor air ratio). However, the non-uniform CO 2 distribution in …

Demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) is widely used for the energy-efficient provision of
indoor air quality. However, existing DCV requires a continuously variable airflow rate, and …

Abstract Zero Energy Building (ZEB) is gaining more attention as a solution to significantly
mitigate the environment concerns. However, a bibliometric analysis of the topic, a very …

The uncertainty and sensitivity analyses for multivariables of the optimal system based on
deterministic parameters are necessary, as multivariables are full of uncertainties in the real …