Publications

2025

Szum, Carolyn, Mohamed Firas Jemal, Ezzedine Khalfallah, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Clean Energy Revolving Loan Funds: International Experience." (2025).
Rao, Prakash, Thomas P Hendrickson, Elizabeth Wachs, Shubhankar Upasani, and Alberta Carpenter."Testing a method for developing facility-level greenhouse gas emissions intensities of U.S. traded goods." (2025).

2024

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Alexandra Duncan, Joshua Kace, Haley Tong, and Jessica Granderson."Building Performance Software: Portfolio-Level Capabilities and Applications." (2024). DOI
Belaid, Youba Nait, Miguel Heleno, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Reconductoring Economic and Financial Analysis (REFA) Tool." (2024).
Satre-Meloy, Aven, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, Iain S Walker, and Brennan Less."Reducing the Cost of Home Energy Upgrades in the US: An Industry Survey."Journal of Building Engineering, October, 110939 (2024). DOI
Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, Cara Lozinsky, and Michael D Sohn."The Impact of Simplified Window and Exhaust Fan Assumptions on Model- Based Predictions of Inter-Zonal Air Flow and Contaminant Transport in Multifamily Buildings."Proc. 44th AIVC Conference, Dublin, Ireland. (2024).
Srinivasan, Pavitra, Nora Esram, Helen Chen, and Reshma Singh."A Proposed Evaluation Framework for New and Emerging LowEmbodied-Carbon Concrete Technologies." 2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024). DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Sean Murphy, and Eric Fournier."Electrical Service Panel Capacity in California Households with Insights for Equitable Building Electrification."Proc ACEEE Summer Study 2024. ACEEE, Washington, DC (2024).
Singh, Reshma, Yashima Jain, Laura Wong, Mary Weigel, and Nicholas Ryan."From IMPEL to Impact: Lessons Learned in Accelerating Innovative Building Technologies."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024). DOI
Less, Brennan, and Iain S Walker."HVAC Heat Pump Upgrades and their Impact on Household Maximum Power Demand."Proc ACEEE Summer Study 2024. ACEEE, Washington, DC (2024).
Szum, Carolyn, Han Li, Robin Mitchell, Sydney Applegate, Billierae Engelman, Nicholas Long, Yassen Roussev, and Eric Noller."New U.S. Data Tools are Playing a Crucial Role in Decarbonizing Buildings at Speed, Scale, and Low Cost."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024). DOI
Casquero-Modrego, Nuria, M Venkatraman, and Iain S Walker."The Costs of Decarbonizing Multifamily Buildings in DACs and Rural Areas."2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (2024). DOI
Xu, Yujie, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong."Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment."Sustainable Cities and Society 107 (2024) 105468. DOI
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
Jain, Anubhav, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Michael D Sohn, Will Gorman, Alexandre Moreira, Lazlo Paul, Haitam Laarabi, and Maher Alghalayini."Frontiers in Energy Storage: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI)." (2024).
Ding, Chao, Jing Ke, Mark D Levine, and Nan Zhou."Potential of artificial intelligence in reducing energy and carbon emissions of commercial buildings at scale."Nature Communications 15 (2024). DOI
Robinson, Alastair, Samuel Fernandes, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, Ronnen M Levinson, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential Urban Heat Island Countermeasures and Building Energy Efficiency Improvements in Los Angeles County." (2024).
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
Sawe, Nik, Hongyou Lu, Jeffrey Rissman, Zhiyu Tian, and Nan Zhou."Clean Industry in China: A Techno-Economic Comparison of Electrified Heat Technologies, Barriers, and Policy Options." (2024). DOI
Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Donghun Kim, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building."Applied Energy 361 (2024) 122935. DOI
Benne, Kyle, Jermy Thomas, Jiazhen Ling, David Blum, and Amir Roth."Simulation-Driven Rating of Smart Thermostats."Eleventh National Conference of IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 (2024). 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