Building Technologies Department

2020

Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning." Applied Energy 263 (2020) 114683.

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Chen, Chien-fei, Tianzhen Hong, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Selin Yilmaz, Karol Bandurski, Zsófia Deme Bélafi, Marilena De Simone, Mateus Vinícius Bavaresco, Yu Wang, Pei-ling Liu, Verena M Barthelmes, Jacqueline Adams, Simona D'Oca, and Łukasz Przybylski. "Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings." Energy Research & Social Science 61 (2020) 101344.

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Wang, Zhe, Jingyi Wang, Yueer He, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong. "Dimension analysis of subjective thermal comfort metrics based on ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database using machine learning." Journal of Building Engineering 29 (2020) 101120.

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Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, D. Charlie Curcija, Gregory J Ward, Taoning Wang, David Geisler-Moroder, Christoph Gehbauer, John Breshears, Luis L Fernandes, Stephen E Selkowitz, Robert Hart, Christian Kohler, David Blum, Jinqing Peng, and Howdy Goudey. High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California. Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 2020.

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Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong. "Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 119 (2020) 109593.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Chien-Fei Chen, Zhe Wang, and Xiaojing Xu. "Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits." Building and Environment 170 (2020) 106602.

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Perera, A. TD, Vahid M Nik, Deliang Chen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Tianzhen Hong. "Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems." Nature Energy 5.2 (2020) 150 - 159.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, and Wanni Zhang. "State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle." Energy and Buildings 212 (2020) 109831.

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Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, and Marina Sofos. "System-level key performance indicators for building performance evaluation." Energy and Buildings 209 (2020) 109703.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Xuan Luo, Na Luo, and Sang Hoon Lee. "Ten questions on urban building energy modeling." Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106508.

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2019

Guo, Siyue, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, and Ying Cui. "A novel approach for selecting typical hot-year (THY) weather data." Applied Energy 242 (2019) 1634 - 1648.

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Barr, Zach, Norman Bourassa, John Bowie, Richard E Brown, Nora DeCuir, H. Jordan Diamond, Amy Dryden, Ethan Elkind, Harrison Fraker, Wenjie Fu, Ethan Guy, Daniel Hamilton, Ted Lamm, Maika Nicholson, Leo Rainer, Sandy Robertson, Christine Scott Thomson, Emma Tome, and Andréa Traber. Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Energy Communities: The Oakland EcoBlock A Zero Net Energy, Low Water Use Retrofit Neighborhood Demonstration Project. 2019.

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Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, and Marina Sofos. "An inverse approach to solving zone air infiltration rate and people count using indoor environmental sensor data." Energy and Buildings 198 (2019) 228 - 242.

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Langevin, Jared, Chioke B Harris, and Janet L Reyna. "Assessing the Potential to Reduce U.S. Building CO2 Emissions 80% by 2050." Joule (2019).

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Luo, Na, Wenguo Weng, Xiaoyu Xu, Tianzhen Hong, Ming Fu, and Kaiyu Sun. "Assessment of occupant-behavior-based indoor air quality and its impacts on human exposure risk: A case study based on the wildfires in Northern California." Science of The Total Environment 686 (2019) 1251 - 1261.

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Van Cutsem, Olivier, Maher Kayal, David Blum, and Marco Pritoni. "Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs." IEEE PowerTech Milan 2019. 2019.

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Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Ning Xu, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Xiaofang Shan. "Cross-source sensing data fusion for building occupancy prediction with adaptive lasso feature filtering." Building and Environment 162 (2019) 106280.

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Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Data fusion in predicting internal heat gains for office buildings through a deep learning approach." Applied Energy 240 (2019) 386 - 398.

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Brown, Richard E, Peter Schwartz, Bruce Nordman, Jordan Shackelford, Aditya Khandekar, Neal Jackson, Anand Prakash, Srijit Ghosh, and Erik Page. Developing Flexible, Networked Lighting Control Systems That Reliably Save Energy in California Buildings. California Energy Commission, 2019.

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Poskanzer, Deborah, Alan K Meier, Margarita Kloss, and Chinmayee Subban. "Dressing for the Anthropocene*: A Future History." 2019.

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Meier, Alan K, Richard E Brown, Daniel L Gerber, Aditya Khandekar, Margarita Kloss, Hidemitsu Koyanagi, Richard Liou, Leo I Rainer, and Seth Sanders. Efficient and Zero Net Energy-Ready Plug Loads. 2019.
Gerber, Daniel L, Alan K Meier, Richard Liou, and Robert Hosbach. "Emerging Zero-Standby Solutions for Miscellaneous Electric Loads and the Internet of Things." Electronics 8.5 (2019).
Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles. Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards. Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 2019.
Gerber, Daniel L, Richard Liou, and Richard E Brown. "Energy-saving opportunities of direct-DC loads in buildings." Applied Energy 248 (2019) 274 - 287.

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Piette, Mary Ann, Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash. "Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System." Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2019.

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