Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2020

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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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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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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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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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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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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Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, and Marina Sofos. "An inverse approach to solving zone air infiltration rate and people count using indoor environmental sensor data." Energy and Buildings 198 (2019) 228 - 242.

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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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Luo, Na, Wenguo Weng, Xiaoyu Xu, Tianzhen Hong, Ming Fu, and Kaiyu Sun. "Assessment of occupant-behavior-based indoor air quality and its impacts on human exposure risk: A case study based on the wildfires in Northern California." Science of The Total Environment 686 (2019) 1251 - 1261.

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Kramer, Hannah, Guanjing Lin, Claire Curtin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson. "Building analytics and monitoring-based commissioning: industry practice, costs, and savings." Energy Efficiency (2019).

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Harris, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Kristen Parrish, and Jessica Granderson. "Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings." Sustainable Cities and Society 46 (2019) 101389.

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Van Cutsem, Olivier, Maher Kayal, David Blum, and Marco Pritoni. "Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs." IEEE PowerTech Milan 2019. 2019.

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Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Ning Xu, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Xiaofang Shan. "Cross-source sensing data fusion for building occupancy prediction with adaptive lasso feature filtering." Building and Environment 162 (2019) 106280.

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Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Data fusion in predicting internal heat gains for office buildings through a deep learning approach." Applied Energy 240 (2019) 386 - 398.

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Brown, Richard E, Peter Schwartz, Bruce Nordman, Jordan Shackelford, Aditya Khandekar, Neal Jackson, Anand Prakash, Srijit Ghosh, and Erik Page. Developing Flexible, Networked Lighting Control Systems That Reliably Save Energy in California Buildings. California Energy Commission, 2019.

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