Stakeholder requirements for building energy efficiency in mass housing delivery: the House of Quality approach
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DOI: 10.1007/s10668-017-9930-z
Abstract: Threats of climate change and future energy price uncertainty have led to a global debate on energy efficiency, particularly the energy efficiency of housing projects. This serious global problem calls for improvement in energy efficiency… read more here.
Keywords: stakeholder requirements; energy; housing; building energy ... See more keywords
Building energy performance prediction using neural networks
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DOI: 10.1007/s12053-017-9524-5
Abstract: The energy in buildings is influenced by numerous factors characterized by non-linear multi-interrelationships. Consequently, the prediction of the energy performance of a building, in the presence of these factors, becomes a complex task. The work… read more here.
Keywords: neural networks; energy; building energy; performance prediction ... See more keywords
Building energy modeling at neighborhood scale
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DOI: 10.1007/s12053-020-09882-4
Abstract: The urban climate and outdoor air quality of cities that have a positive thermal balance depending on the thermal consumptions of buildings cause an increase of the urban heat island and global warming effects. The… read more here.
Keywords: neighborhood scale; energy modeling; energy; building energy ... See more keywords
Thermal transients simulations of a building by a dynamic model based on thermal-electrical analogy: Evaluation and implementation issue
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.052
Abstract: The thermal behaviour of buildings in transient conditions is established by the temperature evolution of the external environment. Determining the thermal evolution of buildings is of crucial importance for building energy design, as well as… read more here.
Keywords: energy; model; evaluation; building energy ... See more keywords
Performance-based validation of climatic zoning for building energy efficiency applications
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.044
Abstract: Abstract Climatic zoning for building energy efficiency applications is an important element in building energy policy and regulations. There are several methodologies available to conduct climatic zoning, providing significantly different results. Currently, there are no… read more here.
Keywords: validation; climatic zoning; building energy; performance ... See more keywords
A graph mining-based methodology for discovering and visualizing high-level knowledge for building energy management
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113395
Abstract: Abstract Building operations have evolved to be not only energy-intensive, but also information-intensive. Advanced data-driven methodologies are urgently needed to facilitate the tasks in building energy management. Currently, there are two main bottlenecks in analyzing… read more here.
Keywords: methodology; based methodology; building energy; graph ... See more keywords
A hybrid model for building energy consumption forecasting using long short term memory networks
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114131
Abstract: Data driven building energy consumption forecasting models play a significant role in enhancing the energy efficiency of the buildings through building energy management, energy operations, and control strategies. The multi-source and heterogeneous energy consumption data… read more here.
Keywords: energy consumption; energy; consumption forecasting; model ... See more keywords
Quantifying the uncertain effects of climate change on building energy consumption across the United States
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115556
Abstract: Abstract Climate change could have both positive and negative effects on the energy consumption of buildings. Today, it is not clear what the extent of these effects could be at multiple spatial scales including building… read more here.
Keywords: change; climate change; building energy; energy consumption ... See more keywords
Automatic and rapid calibration of urban building energy models by learning from energy performance database
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115584
Abstract: Abstract Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) is attracting increasing attention in the energy modeling filed. Unlike modeling a single building using detailed building systems information, UBEM generally uses limited high-level building stock data to infer… read more here.
Keywords: energy; performance database; calibration; building energy ... See more keywords
Identifying critical building-oriented features in city-block-level building energy consumption: A data-driven machine learning approach
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117453
Abstract: Abstract Understanding regional building energy patterns is the prerequisite to efficiently and effectively promote sustainable urban development. Previous studies have proposed various data-driven methods to investigate the relationship between building energy consumption and hundreds of… read more here.
Keywords: building energy; building; city; energy ... See more keywords
A rule-based system to automatically validate IFC second-level space boundaries for building energy analysis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103724
Abstract: Abstract To facilitate BIM-to-Building Energy Modeling (BEM) geometric transformation, IFC provides a concept of second-level space boundary (SB). In the current practice, however, quality issues of second-level SBs in IFC models are often found, which… read more here.
Keywords: second level; system; building energy; level ... See more keywords