Publications

2021

Robinson, Alastair, and Ranjith Narasimhamurthy."Validation of District Energy Systems for American Communities." (2021).
Robinson, Gerald, Kevin Watson, Andy Walker, Jal Desai, Otto Van Greet, James Elsworth, and Thushara Gunda."Weather impacts on solar PV operations summary of the current body of knowledge and implications for further investigation." (2021).

2020

Fierro, Gabe, Marco Pritoni, Moustafa Abdelbaky, Daniel Lengyel, John Leyden, Anand Prakash, Pranav Gupta, Paul Raftery, Therese Peffer, Greg Thomson, and David Culler."Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics."ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 16.1 (2020) 1 - 31. DOI
Ueno, Tsuyoshi, and Alan K Meier."A method to generate heating and cooling schedules based on data from connected thermostats."Energy and Buildings 228 (2020) 110423. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, and Norman Bourassa."Continuously Improving Energy and Water Management."ASHRAE Journal (2020). DOI
Cho, Brian, Teresa Dayrit, Yuan Gao, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Alex Sim, and Kesheng Kesheng."Effective Missing Value Imputation Methods for Building Monitoring Data."IEEE BigData 2020 (2020). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Daniel Macumber, Han Li, Katherine Fleming, and Zhe Wang."Generation and representation of synthetic smart meter data."Building Simulation 13.6 (2020) 1205 - 1220. DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Chih-Cheng Lee, Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan."Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid."Energy 212.118669 (2020). DOI
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, Siyue Guo, Yan Gao, Jinqing Peng, and Tianzhen Hong."An improved method for direct incident solar radiation calculation from hourly solar insolation data in building energy simulation."Energy and Buildings 227 (2020) 110425. DOI
Lister, Mark, Anna Mowat, Peter du Pont, Nan Zhou, and Carolyn Szum."Analysis and Assessment of the Existing Landscape and Opportunities for Building Energy Efficiency in Selected Countries in Asia." (2020).
Chen, Yixing, Zhang Deng, and Tianzhen Hong."Automatic and rapid calibration of urban building energy models by learning from energy performance database."Applied Energy 277 (2020) 115584. DOI
Mathew, Paul A, Alison Farmer, and Jacob Werner."Best Practices Guide: Benchmarking Energy Efficiency in Laboratories." (2020).
Crowe, Eliot, Evan Mills, Tom Poeling, Claire Curtin, Diana Bjornskov, Liz Fischer, and Jessica Granderson."Building Commissioning Costs and Savings Across Three Decades and 1,500 North American Buildings."Energy and Buildings 227.110408 (2020). DOI
Luo, Xuan, Pouya Vahmani, Tianzhen Hong, and Andrew Jones."City-Scale Building Anthropogenic Heating during Heat Waves."Atmosphere 11.11 (2020) 1206. DOI
Chen, Bingqing, Jonathan Francis, Marco Pritoni, Soummya Kar, and Mario Bergés."COHORT: Coordination of Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Flexibility."Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI
Langevin, Jared, Janet L Reyna, S Ebrahimigharehbaghi, N Sandberg, P Fennell, C Nägeli, J Laverge, M Delghust, É Mata, M Van Hove, J Webster, F Federico, M Jakob, and C Camarasa."Developing a common approach for classifying building stock energy models."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 133 (2020) 110276. DOI
Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R Chan, William W Delp, Hao Tang, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Factors Impacting Range Hood Use in California Houses and Low-Income Apartments."International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (2020). DOI
Wang, Liyang, Molly Morabito, Christopher T Payne, and Gerald Robinson."Identifying institutional barriers and policy implications for sustainable energy technology adoption among large organizations in California."Energy Policy 146 (2020) 111768. DOI
Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Martina Ferrando, Xuan Luo, and Francesco Causone."Modeling and analysis of heat emissions from buildings to ambient air."Applied Energy 277 (2020) 115566. DOI
Bergmann, Harry, Cory Mosiman, Avijit Saha, Selam Haile, William Livingood, Steven Bushby, Gabe Fierro, Joel Bender, Michael Poplawski, Jessica Granderson, and Marco Pritoni."Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI
Chen, Chien-Fei, Selin Yilmaz, Anna Laura Pisello, Marilena De Simone, Amy Kim, Tianzhen Hong, Karol Bandurski, Mateus Vinícius Bavaresco, Pei-ling Liu, and Yimin Zhu."The impacts of building characteristics, social psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief."Building and Environment 185 (2020) 107189. DOI
Chen, Bingqing, Ming Jin, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mario Bergés."Towards Off-policy Evaluation as a Prerequisite for Real-world Reinforcement Learning in Building Control."Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (2020). DOI
Ferrando, Martina, Francesco Causone, Tianzhen Hong, and Yixing Chen."Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches."Sustainable Cities and Society 62 (2020) 102408. DOI