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  • Cool Roofs & Walls
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X Author: Maggie Sheng

2023

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
Lin, Guanjing, Armando Casillas, Maggie Sheng, and Jessica Granderson."Performance Evaluation of an Occupancy-Based HVAC Control System in an Office Building."Energies 16.20 (2023) 7088. DOI

2022

Lin, Guanjing, Armando Casillas, Maggie Sheng, and Jessica Granderson."Evaluating the Performance of HVAC Optimal Control Based on Real-time Floor-by-Floor Occupancy Data."ACEEE (2022).

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