A literature review on driving factors and contextual events influencing occupants' behaviours in buildings

F Stazi, F Naspi, M D'Orazio - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper illustrates the results of a literature review on occupants' behaviours,
assessing the actions' drivers. There is no general agreement about the reasons people …

A review on sustainable construction management strategies for monitoring, diagnosing, and retrofitting the building's dynamic energy performance: Focused on the …

T Hong, C Koo, J Kim, M Lee, K Jeong - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
According to a press release, the building sector accounts for about 40% of the global
primary energy consumption. Energy savings can be achieved in the building sector by …

Prediction and optimization of heating and cooling loads in a residential building based on multi-layer perceptron neural network and different optimization algorithms

Y Xu, F Li, A Asgari - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Since cooling and heating loads are regarded as significant parameters to examine the
energy performance of buildings, the need to predict and analyze them for the residential …

Energy performance gap in refurbished German dwellings: Lesson learned from a field test

D Calì, T Osterhage, R Streblow, D Müller - Energy and buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Low insulation standards and obsolete heating systems of a large amount of buildings in
Europe account for disproportional energy consumption. Within this project, the holistic …

Life-cycle building information modelling (BIM) engaged framework for improving building energy performance

X Xu, T Mumford, PXW Zou - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The building sector is responsible for 32% of global energy consumption and 19% of all
energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The urgent requirement for energy conservation …

Making the 'rebound effect'more useful for performance evaluation of thermal retrofits of existing homes: Defining the 'energy savings deficit'and the 'energy …

R Galvin - Energy and buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
Concern has recently intensified regarding increases in the consumption of energy services
that often follow energy efficiency improvements, a phenomenon widely called the 'rebound …

Analysis of occupants' behavior related to the use of windows in German households

D Calì, RK Andersen, D Müller, BW Olesen - Building and Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Real energy performances of buildings depend not only on deterministic aspects, such as
building physics and HVAC systems, but also on stochastic aspects such as weather and …

A new methodology for building energy performance benchmarking: An approach based on intelligent clustering algorithm

X Gao, A Malkawi - Energy and Buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
Though many building energy benchmarking programs have been developed during the
past decades, they hold certain limitations. The major concern is that they may cause …

Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology

W Wang, J Chen, T Hong, N Zhu - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate occupancy prediction can improve facility control and energy efficiency of
buildings. In recent years, buildings' exiting WiFi infrastructures have been widely studied in …

Energy impact and eco-efficiency of the envelope insulation in residential buildings in Turkey

D Evin, A Ucar - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Approximately 31% of the energy requirement in Turkey is related to residential buildings.
For this reason, residential buildings have an important role in reducing energy needs and …