A complete review on scale model testing for buildings, considering a wide range of
methodologies and new manufacturing techniques, in areas such as statics and dynamics …

A chronological overview of the advanced control strategies for heating, ventilation, air-
conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) is presented in this article. The overview focuses …

This paper presents a nonlinear controller for a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning
(HVAC) system capable of maintaining comfort conditions under time varying thermal loads …

One of the main problems of the intelligent buildings is to give comfort to its occupants and to
increase the user's performance at a low cost. The excessive demand of electric energy due …

This paper describes an experimental and numerical study to analyse the thermal
performance of a bio-climatic building prototype in Nigeria. The roof performs as a solar …

This paper presents a new decentralized nonlinear adaptive controller (DNAC) for a heating,
ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system capable of maintaining comfortable …

A detailed assessment of building energy performance requires a large amount of input data
concerning building typology, environmental conditions, envelope thermophysical …

This paper presents a conceptual design of a multizone HVAC controller based on a
wireless sensor network that aims to optimize energy consumption while maintaining the …

Aiming at the non-linear links such as time lag, large inertia, in the heating, ventilating, and
air conditioning (HVAC) system, a fuzzy immune self-tuning PID control system is designed …

Improving the energy efficiency of buildings by examining their heating, ventilating, and air-
conditioning (HVAC) systems represents an opportunity. To improve energy efficiency, to …