Abstract The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive covers a broad range of policies
and supportive measures designed to help European Union national governments boost …

Industrial., commercial, and residential facilities are progressively adopting automation and
generation capabilities. By having flexible demand and renewable energy generation …

The largest parts of energy demand within the residential sector are used for space heating
(SH), domestic hot water (DHW) and space cooling (SC). The thermal and electrical needs …

Smart buildings have been proven to be a kind of flexible demand response resources in the
power system. To maximize the utilization of the demand response resources, such as the …

Property growth, especially in high-rise buildings in developed and developing countries,
has experienced a significant increase. The increasingly expensive resources and the …

In the residential sector, the building heating system is an energy-intensive consumer. Heat
pumps are energy-efficient devices to integrate renewable power into buildings and provide …

We present here a comprehensive study on the accuracy of ISO 52016-1: 2017 standard
(the Standard), and provide a novel, widely applicable framework for its assessment. The …

Energy conservation and carbon reduction in building energy is an important way to achieve
the global goal of 'carbon neutrality'. Common low‐carbon operation strategies of buildings …

The urgent need to make buildings more performant in energy and environmental terms has
led to the increasing study of recycled and natural materials as viable solutions. In this …

Buildings equipped with battery energy storages (BES), thermal energy storages (TES),
Photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal collectors (STC) and modulating heat pumps (HP) can …