Resilience Publications
Resilience Publications
2025
Rao, Prakash, Heidi Fuchs, Amal Alsaffar, Kristina Armstrong, Sravan Chalasani, Sujit Das, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Diane J Graziano, Unique Karki, Mini Malhotra, James McCall, Sachin Nimbalkar, Frédéric Petit, Lino Sanchez, Rob Spencer, Sarang Supekar, and Kiran Thirumaran."Advancing Manufacturing Water Resilience: Addressing Risks through New Approaches and Technologies."
(2025). DOI
Siegel, Lino Sanchez, Luis L Fernandes, Paul A Mathew, and Sang Hoon Lee."A building performance-based approach to determining energy resilience for grocery stores in the event of a power outage."Science and Technology for the Built Environment
(2025) 1-17. DOI
Robinson, Gerald."Maturing Rational Design Methodologies and Industry Consensus Engineering Standards: Critical Fastened Joints - Solar PV Industry."
(2025). DOI
2024
Krelling, Amanda, Roberto Lamberts, Jeetika Malik, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil."Sustainable Cities and Society
107 (2024) 105460. DOI
Liang, Wei, Han Li, Sicheng Zhan, Adrian Chong, and Tianzhen Hong."Energy flexibility quantification of a tropical net-zero office building using physically consistent neural network-based model predictive control."Advances in Applied Energy
14 (2024) 100167. DOI
Wu, Jiyuan, Lan Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Qinran Hu, and Wei Wang."Revealing and optimizing the design of cover installation for outdoor units of air conditioners through CFD simulations and thermodynamic modeling."Journal of Building Engineering
87 (2024) 109014. DOI
Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."An innovative heterogeneous transfer learning framework to enhance the scalability of deep reinforcement learning controllers in buildings with integrated energy systemsAbstract."Building Simulation
17.5 (2024) 739 - 770. DOI
Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Minh Le, Lujuana Medina, Yujie Xu, Alastair Robinson, and Mary Ann Piette."Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadvantaged communities."Sustainable Cities and Society
104 (2024) 105319. DOI
Pan, Xiyu, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong."Surrogate modelling for urban building energy simulation based on the bidirectional long short-term memory model."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2024) 1 - 19. DOI
Li, Han, Giuseppe Pinto, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, and Tianzhen Hong."Building thermal dynamics modeling with deep transfer learning using a large residential smart thermostat dataset."Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
130 (2024) 107701. DOI
Park, Jiwon, Kwang Ho Lee, Sang Hoon Lee, and Tianzhen Hong."Benefits assessment of cool skin and ventilated cavity skin: Saving energy and mitigating heat and grid stress."Building and Environment
247 (2024) 111027. DOI
Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, Constantinos Cartalis, Anastasios Polydoros, and Mattheos Santamouris."Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale."Nature Cities
1.1 (2024) 62 - 72. DOI
Thanachareonkit, Anothai, Luis L Fernandes, Howdy Goudey, and Jacob C Jonsson."DIY Affordable Window Shading."
(2024).
2023
Hong, Tianzhen, Jeetika Malik, Amanda Krelling, William O'Brien, Kaiyu Sun, Roberto Lamberts, and Max Wei."Ten questions concerning thermal resilience of buildings and occupants for climate adaptation."Building and Environment
244 (2023) 110806. DOI
Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment
230 (2023) 110001. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, Bingyu Zhao, Zhe Wang, Kenichi Soga, and Tianzhen Hong."Optimal design of microgrids to improve wildfire resilience for vulnerable communities at the wildland-urban interface."Applied Energy
335 (2023) 120744. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, and Tianzhen Hong."Vulnerability and resilience of urban energy ecosystems to extreme climate events: A systematic review and perspectives."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
173 (2023) 113038. DOI
2022
Moudio, Marie Pelagie Elimbi, Richard Bolin, Alberta Carpenter, Samantha Bench Reese, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing sector disruptions with targeted mitigation strategiesAbstract."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
2.4 (2022) 042001. DOI
Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, and Matthias Sulzer."Resilient cooling through geothermal district energy system."Applied Energy
325 (2022) 119880. DOI
Chen, Chien-fei, Thomas Dietz, Nina H Fefferman, Jamie Greig, Kristen Cetin, Caitlin Robinson, Laura Arpan, Marcel Schweiker, Bing Dong, Wenbo Wu, Yue Li, Hongyu Zhou, Jianzhong Wu, Jin Wen, Joshua S Fu, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, Hannah Nelson, Yimin Zhu, Xueping Li, Le Xie, and Rachel Fu."Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro- and macro-levels: Concepts, challenges and methods."Energy Research & Social Science
85 (2022) 102401. DOI
Zeng, Zhaoyun, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Investigation of pre-cooling as a recommended measure to improve residential buildings’ thermal resilience during heat waves."Building and Environment
210 (2022) 108694. DOI
2021
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings
252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Mathew, Paul A, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, and Travis Walter."Assessing the Energy Resilience of Office Buildings: Development and Testing of a Simplified Metric for Real Estate Stakeholders."Building
Vol.11(3) No.96 (2021). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper."Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco."Urban Climate
38 (2021) 100871. DOI
Xu, Yujie, Tianzhen Hong, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, and Max Wei."Heat Vulnerability Index Development and Mapping."SimAUD 2021
(2021).
Singh, Reshma, Monto Mani, and Swapnil Joshi."Transforming India's Built Environment: A 2050 Vision for Wellness and Resilience."
(2021).
2020
Luo, Xuan, Pouya Vahmani, Tianzhen Hong, and Andrew Jones."City-Scale Building Anthropogenic Heating during Heat Waves."Atmosphere
11.11 (2020) 1206. DOI
Singh, Reshma, Anand Prakash, Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal."A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
(2020).
Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong."Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home."Building and Environment
177 (2020) 106842. DOI
Prakash, Anand, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellic, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids."Energies
13.12 (2020) 3093. DOI
2019
Meier, Alan K, Tsuyoshi Ueno, and Marco Pritoni."Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States."Applied Energy
256 (2019) 113940. DOI
2016
Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI
2002
Koomey, Jonathan G, Chris Calwell, John A Laitner, Jane Thornton, Richard E Brown, Joseph H Eto, Carrie A Webber, Cathy Cullicott, Robert H Socolow, Dennis Anderson, and John Harte."Sorry, wrong number: The use and misuse of numerical facts in analysis and media reporting of energy issues."Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 2002
27 (2002) 119-158. DOI