Building Technologies Department

2019

Levinson, Ronnen M, Howdy Goudey, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, George A Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang. Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures. 2019.
Blum, David, K. Arendt, Lisa Rivalin, Mary Ann Piette, Michael Wetter, and C.T. Veje. "Practical factors of envelope model setup and their effects on the performance of model predictive control for building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems." Applied Energy 236 (2019) 410 - 425.

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Wetter, Michael, and Jianjun Hu. Quayside Energy Systems Analysis. 2019. LBNL 2001197.

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Hart, Robert, Stephen E Selkowitz, and D. Charlie Curcija. "Thermal performance and potential annual energy impact of retrofit thin-glass triple-pane glazing in US residential buildings." Building Simulation 12.1 (2019) 79 - 86.

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2018

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith. "A Library of Building Occupant Behaviour Models Represented in a Standardised Schema." Energy Efficiency (2018).

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Zhang, Rongpeng, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma. "A Novel Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Recovery System Model: Development and Validation." Energy and Buildings 168 (2018).

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Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E Brown. "A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings." Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. LBNL-2001160.

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Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette. "A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network." Energy 144 (2018) 20 - 30.

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Wenzel, Thomas P. Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2004-2011 Passenger Cars and LTVs” (LBNL Phase 1). 2018. LBNL-2001137.

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Selkowitz, Stephen E, Robert Hart, and D. Charlie Curcija. "Breaking the 20 Year Logjam to Better Insulating Windows." 2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2018.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, and Kaiyu Sun. "Building Simulation: Ten Challenges." Building Simulation 11 (2018).

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Zhou, Xin, Da Yan, Jingjing An, Tianzhen Hong, Xing Shi, and Xing Jin. "Comparative Study of Air-Conditioning Energy Use of Four Office Buildings in China and USA." Energy and Buildings 169 (2018).

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Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita. Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis. 2018. LBNL-2001122.

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Gerke, Brian F, Jennifer Potter, Peter Schwartz, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Jasmine Shepard, Teddy Kisch, and Adel Suleiman. "Driving Adoption of Demand-Responsive Commercial Lighting with a Clarified Value Proposition: Site Level Energy Savings and Cost-Benefit Analysis." 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, 2018.

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Lee, Eleanor S, Christoph Gehbauer, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Luis L Fernandes, and Taoning Wang. "Dual-Zone Solar Control Indoor Shade: Demonstration at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Windows Testbed, Berkeley, California." 2018. LBNL - 2001196.

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Wang, Taoning, Gregory Ward, and Eleanor S Lee. "Efficient modeling of optically-complex, non-coplanar exterior shading: Validation of matrix algebraic methods." Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 464 - 483.

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Wenzel, Thomas P, and K. Sydny Fujita. Elasticity of Vehicle Miles of Travel to Changes in the Price of Gasoline and the Cost of Driving in Texas. 2018. LBNL-2001138.

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Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, and D. Charlie Curcija. "Experimental validation for thermal transmittances of window shading systems with perimeter gaps." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1 - 13.

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Pritoni, Marco, Rebecca Ford, Beth Karlin, and Angela Sanguinetti. "Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US." Data in Brief 16 (2018) 71 - 74.
D'Oca, Simona, Anna Laura Pisello, Marilena De Simone, Verena M Barthelmes, Tianzhen Hong, and Stefano P Corgnati. "Human-building interaction at work: Findings from an interdisciplinary cross-country survey in Italy." Building and Environment 132 (2018).

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Chen, Yixing, and Tianzhen Hong. "Impacts of Building Geometry Modeling Methods on the Simulation Results of Urban Building Energy Models." Applied Energy 215 (2018).

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Lee, Eleanor S. "Innovative Glazing Materials." Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings A Life Cycle Approach. Cambridge: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier Inc., 2018. LBNL-2001193.

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Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, and Tianzhen Hong. "Modeling occupancy distribution in large spaces with multi-feature classification algorithm." Building and Environment 137 (2018).

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Lee, Eleanor S, David Geisler-Moroder, and Gregory J Ward. "Modeling the Direct Sun Component in Buildings Using Matrix Algebraic Approaches: Methods and Validation." Solar Energy 160 (2018) 380 - 395. LBNL-2001102.

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Xu, Xiaodong, Fenlan Luo, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Xiuzhang Fu. "Performance-Based Evaluation of Courtyard Design in China’s Cold-Winter Hot-Summer Climate Regions." Sustainability 10.11 (2018) 3950.

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