Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2020

Haves, Philip, Baptiste Ravache, and Mehry Yazdanian. Accuracy of HVAC Load Predictions: Validation of EnergyPlus and DOE-2 using FLEXLAB Measurements. 2020.

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Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, and Jessica Granderson. "Building fault detection and diagnostics: Achieved savings, and methods to evaluate algorithm performance." Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106505.

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Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning." Applied Energy 263 (2020) 114683.

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Malik, Jeetika, Ronita Bardhan, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Contextualising adaptive comfort behaviour within low-income housing of Mumbai, India." Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106877.

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Chen, Chien-fei, Tianzhen Hong, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Selin Yilmaz, Karol Bandurski, Zsófia Deme Bélafi, Marilena De Simone, Mateus Vinícius Bavaresco, Yu Wang, Pei-ling Liu, Verena M Barthelmes, Jacqueline Adams, Simona D'Oca, and Łukasz Przybylski. "Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings." Energy Research & Social Science 61 (2020) 101344.

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Wang, Zhe, Jingyi Wang, Yueer He, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong. "Dimension analysis of subjective thermal comfort metrics based on ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database using machine learning." Journal of Building Engineering 29 (2020) 101120.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, Na Luo, and Kaiyu Sun. Energy and BehaviourDeveloping quantitative insights on building occupant behaviour: Supporting modelling tools and datasets. Elsevier, 2020.

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Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H Larsen. "eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency." energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY 2020: 300-308.

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Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, D. Charlie Curcija, Gregory J Ward, Taoning Wang, David Geisler-Moroder, Christoph Gehbauer, John Breshears, Luis L Fernandes, Stephen E Selkowitz, Robert Hart, Christian Kohler, David Blum, Jinqing Peng, and Howdy Goudey. High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California. Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 2020.

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O’Brien, William, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Julia Day, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Farhang Tahmasebi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, H. Burak Gunay, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller, and Christiane Berger. "Introducing IEA EBC Annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation." Building and Environment (2020) 106738.

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Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong. "Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 119 (2020) 109593.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Chien-Fei Chen, Zhe Wang, and Xiaojing Xu. "Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits." Building and Environment 170 (2020) 106602.

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Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, Bob Slattery, and Christine Walker. "M&V in ESPC: The U.S. Federal Experience and Implications for Developing ESPC Markets." energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY 2020: 216-221.

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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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Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong. "Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home." Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106842.

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Yoon, Nari, Mary Ann Piette, Jung Min Han, Wentao Wu, and Ali Malkawi. "Optimization of Window Positions for Wind-Driven Natural Ventilation Performance." Energies 13.10 (2020) 2464.

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Perera, A. TD, Vahid M Nik, Deliang Chen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Tianzhen Hong. "Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems." Nature Energy 5.2 (2020) 150 - 159.

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Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong. "Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges." Applied Energy 269 (2020) 115036.

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Wang, Zhe, Hui Zhang, Yingdong Hi, Maohui Luo, Ziwei Li, Tianzhen Hong, and Borong Lin. "Revisiting individual and group differences in thermal comfort based on ASHRAE database." Energy and Buildings 219 (2020) 110017.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, and Wanni Zhang. "State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle." Energy and Buildings 212 (2020) 109831.

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Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, and Marina Sofos. "System-level key performance indicators for building performance evaluation." Energy and Buildings 209 (2020) 109703.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Xuan Luo, Na Luo, and Sang Hoon Lee. "Ten questions on urban building energy modeling." Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106508.

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2019

Guo, Siyue, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, and Ying Cui. "A novel approach for selecting typical hot-year (THY) weather data." Applied Energy 242 (2019) 1634 - 1648.

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Frank, Stephen, Guanjing Lin, Xin Jin, Rupam Singla, Amanda Farthing, and Jessica Granderson. "A performance evaluation framework for building fault detection and diagnosis algorithms." Energy and Buildings 192 (2019) 84 - 92.

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Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Ian Vaino, Claire Curtin, Arman Shehabi, Louis-Benoit Desroches, and Nathaniel Mills. A Plug-Loads Game Changer: Computer Gaming Energy Efficiency without Performance Compromise. CEC, 2019.

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