BTUS Urban Science

2020

Luo, Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Yu-Hang Tang. "Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context." Energies 13.9 (2020) 2382.

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2019

Barr, Zach, Norman Bourassa, John Bowie, Richard E Brown, Nora DeCuir, H. Jordan Diamond, Amy Dryden, Ethan Elkind, Harrison Fraker, Wenjie Fu, Ethan Guy, Daniel Hamilton, Ted Lamm, Maika Nicholson, Leo Rainer, Sandy Robertson, Christine Scott Thomson, Emma Tome, and Andréa Traber. Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Energy Communities: The Oakland EcoBlock A Zero Net Energy, Low Water Use Retrofit Neighborhood Demonstration Project. 2019.

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Langevin, Jared, Chioke B Harris, and Janet L Reyna. "Assessing the Potential to Reduce U.S. Building CO2 Emissions 80% by 2050." Joule (2019).

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Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper. "Development of city buildings dataset for urban building energy modeling." Energy and Buildings 183 (2019) 252 - 265.

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Singh, Reshma, Baptiste Ravache, and Mary Ann Piette. Energy Modeling in Urban Districts: Forecast of multi-sector Energy Use and GHG Emissions. 2019. 2001218.

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Piette, Mary Ann, Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash. "Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System." Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2019.
Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, Ziang Liu, and Ning Xu. "Forecasting district-scale energy dynamics through integrating building network and long short-term memory learning algorithm." Applied Energy 248 (2019) 217 - 230.

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Xu, Xiaodong, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Jiayu Chen. "Incorporating machine learning with building network analysis to predict multi-building energy use." Energy and Buildings 186 (2019) 80 - 97.

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Xu, Xiaodong, Yifan Wu, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Ning Xu. "Performance-driven optimization of urban open space configuration in the cold-winter and hot-summer region of China." Building Simulation 12.3 (2019) 411 - 424.

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

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Levinson, Ronnen M, George A Ban-Weiss, Paul Berdahl, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Nathalie Dumas, Haley E Gilbert, Howdy Goudey, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Jan Kleissl, Benjamin Kurtz, Yun Li, Yan Long, Arash Mohegh, Negin Nazarian, Matteo Pizzicotti, Pablo J Rosado, Marion L Russell, Jonathan L Slack, Xiaochen Tang, Jiachen Zhang, and Weilong Zhang. Solar-Reflective “Cool” Walls: Benefits, Technologies, and Implementation. 2019. 2001296.

2018

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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An, Jingjing, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong. "Clustering and statistical analyses of air-conditioning intensity and use patterns in residential buildings." Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 214 - 227.

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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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Jain, Rajeev, Xuan Luo, Gökhan Sever, Tianzhen Hong, and Charlie Catlett. "Representation and evolution of urban weather boundary conditions in downtown Chicago." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1 - 14.

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Piette, Mary Ann, Rebecca Zarin Pass, Reshma Singh, and Tianzhen Hong. "Review of City Energy and Emissions Analysis Needs, Methods & Tools." 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2018.
Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong. "Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California." Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534.

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2017

Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. Automatic Generation and Simulation of Urban Building Energy Models Based on City Datasets for City-Scale Building Retrofit Analysis. 2017.

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Luo, Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, Yixing Chen, and Mary Ann Piette. Electric Load Shape Benchmarking for Small- and Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings. 2017.

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Maccarini, Alessandro, Michael Wetter, Alireza Afshari, Goran Hultmark, Niels Bergsoe, and Anders Vorre. "Energy saving potential of a two-pipe system for simultaneous heating and cooling of office buildings." Energy and Buildings 134 (2017) 234 - 247.

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Cui, Ying, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Jingjin Ma. Temporal and spatial characteristics of the urban heat island in Beijing and the impact on building design and energy performance. 2017.

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2016

Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette. "A Tale of Three District Energy Systems: Metrics and Future Opportunities." 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2016.

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Liang, Xin, Tianzhen Hong, and Geoffrey Qiping Shen. "Improving the accuracy of energy baseline models for commercial buildings with occupancy data." Applied Energy (2016).

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2015

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Sarah C Taylor-Lange. "Accelerating the energy retrofit of commercial buildings using a database of energy efficiency performance." Energy (2015). LBNL-1004494.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C Taylor-Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip N Price. "Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit." Applied Energy 159 (2015). LBNL-1004502.

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