Publications

2022

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal Heredia, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Gabe Arnold, and Stephen M Frank."Adoption Pathways for DC Power Distribution in Buildings."MDPI (2022). DOI
Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Carbon and Energy Cost Impacts of Electrification of Space Heating with Heat Pumps in the US." (2022). DOI
Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Hwakong Cheng, Gwelen Paliaga, Michael Wetter, and Jessica Granderson."Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlus."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 15.2 (2022) 215 - 236. DOI
Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Dave Robin, and Kun Zhang."OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification."Energy 238 (2022) 121501. DOI
Li, Haoran, Juan Hou, Zhiyong Tian, Tianzhen Hong, Natasa Nord, and Daniel Rohde."Optimize heat prosumers' economic performance under current heating price models by using water tank thermal energy storage."Energy 239 (2022) 122103. DOI
Panagopoulos, Athanasios Aris, Filippos Christianos, Michail Katsigiannis, Konstantinos Mykoniatis, Marco Pritoni, Orestis P Panagopoulos, Therese Peffer, Georgios Chalkiadakis, David Culler, Nicholas R Jennings, and Timothy E Lipman."A low-complexity non-intrusive approach to predict the energy demand of buildings over short-term horizons."Advances in Building Energy Research 16.2 (2022) 202-213. DOI
Chen, Yimin, Zhelun Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based method to analyze fan coil unit fault impacts."2022 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2022).
Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches." (2022).
Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Integration of FDD Data to Aid HVAC System Maintenance."The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) (2022). DOI
Becerik-Gerber, Burçin, Gale Lucas, Ashrant Aryal, Mohamad Awada, Mario Bergés, Sarah L Billington, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Ali Ghahramani, Arsalan Heydarian, Christoph Höelscher, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Azam Khan, Jared Langevin, Ruying Liu, Frederick Marks, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Elizabeth Murnane, Haeyoung Noh, Marco Pritoni, Shawn Roll, Davide Schaumann, Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, John E Taylor, Jie Zhao, and Runhe Zhu."The field of human building interaction for convergent research and innovation for intelligent built environments."Scientific Reports 12.1 (2022). DOI
Sanguinetti, Angela, Claire McIlvennie, Marco Pritoni, Susan Schneider, and Vassilis G Aschonitis."Two (or more) for one: Identifying classes of household energy- and water-saving measures to understand the potential for positive spillover."PLOS ONE 17.7 (2022) e0268879. DOI

2021

Li, Han, Zhe Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."A synthetic building operation dataset."Scientific Data 8.1 (2021). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy (2021). DOI
Saeidi, Sanaz, Girish Rentala, Tracey Rizzuto, Tianzhen Hong, Neil Johannsen, and Yimin Zhu."Exploring thermal state in mixed immersive virtual environments."Journal of Building Engineering 44 (2021) 102918. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings 252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Bingqing Chen, Han Li, and Tianzhen Hong."AlphaBuilding ResCommunity: A multi-agent virtual testbed for community-level load coordination."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021) 100061. DOI
Rainer, Leo, Alan K Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings 250 (2021) 111217. DOI
Putra, Handi Chandra, Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14.6 (2021) 712 - 729. DOI
Gao, Yuan, Qiye Zheng, Jacob C Jonsson, Sean D Lubner, Dragan C Curcija, Luis L Fernandes, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Christian Kohler."Parametric study of solid-solid translucent phase change materials in building windows."Applied Energy 301 (2021) 117467. DOI
Meier, Alan K, and Dan Cautley."Practical limits to the use of non-intrusive load monitoring in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 251 (2021) 111308. DOI
Bennani, Imane Lahmam, Anand Prakash, Marina Zafiris, Lazlo Paul, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro."Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications."BuildSys '21: The 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2021). DOI
Apian-Bennewitz, Peter, Jan de Boer, Bruno Bueno, Bertrand Deroisy, Yuan Fang, David Geisler-Moroder, David Geisler-Moroder, Lars O Grobe, Jacob C Jonsson, Eleanor S Lee, Zhen Tian, Taoning Wang, Gregory J Ward, Helen Rose Wilson, and Yujie Wu."Analysis and evaluation of BSDF characterization of daylighting systems." (2021). DOI
Baudette, Maxime, Jaimie Swartz, Keith Moffat, Jasper Pakshong, Leo Chu, Christoph Gehbauer, and Alexandra von Meier."Hardware-In-the-Loop Benchmarking Setup for Phasor Based Control Validation." (2021). DOI
Chen, Chien-fei, Marilena De Simone, Selin Yilmaz, Xiaojing Xu, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Yiqun Pan."Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design and energy saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis."Building and Environment 204 (2021) 108129. DOI
Khanna, Nina, Hongyou Lu, David Fridley, and Nan Zhou."Near and long‑term perspectives on strategies to decarbonize China’s heavy‑duty trucks through 2050."Nature Scientific Reports 11 (2021). DOI