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2025
Pereira, Flavia deAndrade, Kyriakos Katsigarakis, Dimitrios Rovas, Marco Pritoni, Conor Shaw, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell."A semantics-driven framework to enable demand flexibility control applications in real buildings."Advanced Engineering Informatics
64 (2025) 103049. DOI
Szum, Carolyn, Mohamed Firas Jemal, Ezzedine Khalfallah, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Clean Energy Revolving Loan Funds: International Experience."
(2025).
Levinson, Ronnen M, Donghan Kim, Howdy Goudey, Sharon S Chen, Hui Zhang, Ali Ghahramani, Charlie Huizenga, yingdong He, Akihisa Nomoto, Alexander Merritt, Edward A Arens, Ana Alvarez Suarez, David Ritter, Markus Tarin, and Robert Prickett."Hot, Cold, or Just Right? An Infrared Biometric Sensor to Improve Occupant Comfort and Reduce Overcooling in Buildings via Closed-loop Control."
(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
Chiosa, Roberto, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Marco Pritoni, and Alfonso Capozzoli."A portable application framework for energy management and information systems (EMIS) solutions using Brick semantic schema."Energy and Buildings
323 (2024) 114802. 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