Modeling and forecasting building energy consumption: A review of data-driven techniques

M Bourdeau, X qiang Zhai, E Nefzaoui, X Guo… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Building energy consumption modeling and forecasting is essential to address buildings
energy efficiency problems and take up current challenges of human comfort, urbanization …

The role of sensitivity analysis in the building performance analysis: A critical review

Z Pang, Z O'Neill, Y Li, F Niu - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
A building system is highly nonlinear and commonly includes a variety of parameters
ranging from the architectural design to the building mechanical and energy system. Serving …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity analysis methods for building energy models: Comparing computational costs and extractable information

K Menberg, Y Heo, R Choudhary - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Though sensitivity analysis has been widely applied in the context of building energy
models (BEMs), there are few studies that investigate the performance of different sensitivity …

Multi-objective optimization of the multi-story residential building with passive design strategy in South Korea

Y Jung, Y Heo, H Lee - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the multi-objective optimization of passive design strategy was conducted for
multi-story residential buildings in South Korea. The performance of passive design was …

A quantitative analysis of the impact of residential cluster layout on building heating energy consumption in cold IIB regions of China

Q Deng, G Wang, Y Wang, H Zhou, L Ma - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Residential heating energy consumption in China accounts for about 34% of the total
building operation energy consumption in the country. The layout pattern of residential …

A sensitivity analysis of design parameters of BIPV/T-DSF in relation to building energy and thermal comfort performances

S Yang, F Fiorito, D Prasad, A Sproul… - Journal of building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Building-Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal Double-Skin Façade
(BIPV/T-DSF) shows great potentials on improving indoor thermal comfort and energy …

Bayesian calibration of building energy models with large datasets

A Chong, KP Lam, M Pozzi, J Yang - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
Bayesian calibration as proposed by Kennedy and O'Hagan [22] has been increasingly
applied to building energy models due to its ability to account for the discrepancy between …

Office buildings with electrochromic windows: A sensitivity analysis of design parameters on energy performance, and thermal and visual comfort

JM Dussault, L Gosselin - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a representative office building zone with an electrochromic (EC) glazed
façade was simulated in TRNSYS and Radiance/Daysim for a large number of different …

Hierarchical calibration of archetypes for urban building energy modeling

MH Kristensen, RE Hedegaard, S Petersen - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
The application of building archetypes is a widespread approach used in urban building
energy modeling. Working with archetypes has a range of benefits, but it is important that …

An interactive multi-criteria decision-making method for building performance design

Z Han, X Li, J Sun, M Wang, G Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Building performance design is essential to support sustainable urban development. It
involves multiple conflicting performance, such as energy consumption and daylighting …