[HTML][HTML] Energy modelling and control of building heating and cooling systems with data-driven and hybrid models—A review

Y Balali, A Chong, A Busch, S O'Keefe - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Implementing an efficient control strategy for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems can lead to improvements in both energy efficiency and thermal …

Building automation systems for energy and comfort management in green buildings: A critical review and future directions

G Qiang, S Tang, J Hao, L Di Sarno, G Wu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Green building (GB) strategies are essential for mitigating energy wastage in the building
sector, which accounts for nearly 40% of global energy consumption. However, due to the …

DeST 3.0: A new-generation building performance simulation platform

D Yan, X Zhou, J An, X Kang, F Bu, Y Chen, Y Pan… - Building …, 2022 - Springer
Buildings contribute to almost 30% of total energy consumption worldwide. Developing
building energy modeling programs is of great significance for lifecycle building …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art review of occupant behavior modeling and implementation in building performance simulation

O Ahmed, N Sezer, M Ouf, LL Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

Federated learning-based short-term building energy consumption prediction method for solving the data silos problem

J Li, C Zhang, Y Zhao, W Qiu, Q Chen, X Zhang - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
Transfer learning is an effective method to predict the energy consumption of information-
poor buildings by learning transferable knowledge from operational data of information-rich …

From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control

T Yang, A Bandyopadhyay, Z O'Neill, J Wen, B Dong - Building simulation, 2022 - Springer
Occupants are the core of the built environment. Traditional heating, ventilation, and air-
conditioning (HVAC) systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid agent-based machine learning method for human-centred energy consumption prediction

Q Qiao, A Yunusa-Kaltungo - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant behaviour has significant impacts on the performance of machine learning
algorithms when predicting building energy consumption. Due to a variety of reasons (eg …

PANDEMIC: Occupancy driven predictive ventilation control to minimize energy consumption and infection risk

Z Jiang, Z Deng, X Wang, B Dong - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract During the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, governments around the world
have formulated policies requiring ventilation systems to operate at a higher outdoor fresh …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of the applications of machine learning for HVAC

SL Zhou, AA Shah, PK Leung, X Zhu, Q Liao - DeCarbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) accounts for around 40% of the total
building energy consumption. It has therefore become a major target for reductions, in terms …

Automatic classification of rural building characteristics using deep learning methods on oblique photography

C Meng, Y Song, J Ji, Z Jia, Z Zhou, P Gao, S Liu - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
Rural building is important to the well-being of rural residents, leading to a significant need
to carry out extensive surveys and retrofits of many rural buildings. On-site surveys by expert …