Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

Reset Search

2020

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
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating realistic building electrical load profiles through the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110299. DOI
Salim, Flora D, Bing Dong, Mohamed Ouf, Qi Wang, Ilaria Pigliautile, Xuyuan Kang, Tianzhen Hong, Wenbo Wu, Yapan Liu, Shakila Khan Rumi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jingjing An, Hengfang Deng, Wei Shao, Jakub Dziedzic, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Meng Kong, Claudia Fabiani, Anna Laura Pisello, and Da Yan."Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey."Building and Environment 183 (2020) 106964. DOI
McIlvennie, Claire, Angela Sanguinetti, and Marco Pritoni."Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research."Energy Research & Social Science 68 (2020) 101555. DOI
Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110251. DOI
Azar, Elie, William O'Brien, Salvatore Carlucci, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Sonta, Joyce Jihyun Kim, Maedot S Andargie, Tareq Abuimara, Mounir El Asmar, Rishee Jain, Mohamed Ouf, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Jin Zhou."Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110292. DOI
Drgoňa, Ján, Javier Arroyo, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa, David Blum, Krzysztof Arendt, Donghun Kim, Enric Perarnau Ollé, Juraj Oravec, Michael Wetter, Draguna L Vrabie, and Lieve Helsen."All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings."Annual Reviews in Control (2020). DOI
Shan, Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society 60 (2020) 102257. DOI
Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter."Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36."American Modelica Conference 2020 (2020). DOI
Nubbe, Valerie, Kyung Lee, Alejandro Valdez, Ed Barbour, and Jared Langevin."Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Technology Cost, Performance, and Lifetime Characteristics." (2020). DOI
Singh, Reshma, Anand Prakash, Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal."A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).
Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020). DOI
Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, and Lyla Fadali."Attaching public health benefits to building efficiency measures at the national and regional scales."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).
Sanguinetti, Angela, Claire McIlvennie, Marco Pritoni, and Susan Schneider."Beyond Curtailment and Efficiency: Identifying Household Energy- and Water-Saving Measure Classes."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Carbonnier, Kevin, Cathy Higgins, Katie Wilson, Michael Mutmansky, John Rossi, and Paul A Mathew."Blind to Blinds: Opening Our Eyes to Savings from New Automated Shading Systems."ACEEE Summer Study in Buildings 2020 (2020). DOI
Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen."Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
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."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Yoon, Nari, Leslie K Norford, Ali Malkawi, Holly Samuelson, and Mary Ann Piette."Dynamic metrics of natural ventilation cooling effectiveness for interactive modeling."Building and Environment 180.106994 (2020). DOI
Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Li, Xiangfeng, Yuan Ying, Xiaodong Xu, Yiwei Wang, Syed Asad Hussain, Tianzhen Hong, and Wei Wang."Identifying key determinants for building energy analysis from urban building datasets."Building and Environment 181 (2020) 107114. DOI
Bergfeld, Katie, Paul A Mathew, Marshall Duer-Balkind, James Perakis, Pegah Noori khah, Travis Walter, and Andrew Held."Making Data-Driven Policy Decisions for the Nation’s First Building Energy Performance Standards."ACEEE Summer Study on Buildings 2020 (2020). DOI