Publications: FLEXLAB

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI
Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, James Lo, and Teresa Wu."Using discrete Bayesian networks for diagnosing and isolating cross-level faults in HVAC systems."Applied Energy 327 (2022). DOI
Nordman, Bruce, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Anand Krishnan Prakash."Communication Requirements for Price-Based Grid Coordination."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E. Brown."SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).
Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Leo Rainer, and Christopher CaraDonna."Systems Packages for Washington State Building Performance Standard Incentive Program: Phase 1 Analysis." (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
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).

2021

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
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
Shackelford, Jordan, and Alan K. Meier."Laboratory Evaluation of Tunable White LEDs for Circadian Lighting in Commercial Offices." (2021).
Singer, Brett C., Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Haoran Zhao."Effective Kitchen Ventilation for Healthy Zero Net Energy Homes with Natural Gas." (2021).

2020

Mathew, Paul A., Cynthia Regnier, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Energy Efficiency Package for Tenant Fit-Out:Laboratory Testing and Validation of Energy Savingsand Indoor Environmental Quality."Energies (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
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
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
Haves, Philip, Baptiste Ravache, and Mehry Yazdanian."Accuracy of HVAC Load Predictions: Validation of EnergyPlus and DOE-2 using FLEXLAB Measurements." (2020). DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Ari Harding, Piljae Im, and Yan Chen."Building fault detection data to aid diagnostic algorithm creation and performance testing."Nature: Scientific Data Vol.7 No.65 (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. DOI
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." (2020). DOI
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 H. Blum, Jinqing Peng, and Howdy Goudey."High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California." (2020).
Prakash, Anand, Samir Touzani, Mariam Kiran, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact."RLEM'20: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (2020). DOI
Shackelford, Jordan, Paul A. Mathew, Cynthia Regnier, and Travis Walter."Laboratory Validation of Integrated Lighting Systems Retrofit Performance and Energy Savings."Energies (2020). DOI
Mathew, Paul A., Cynthia Regnier, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Leading in Los Angeles: Demonstrating scalable emerging energy efficient technologies for integrated façade, lighting, and plug loads INTER System FLEXLAB Test Report." (2020). DOI
Mathew, Paul A., Philip Coleman, Cynthia Regnier, Jordan Shackelford, Duane Kubischta, Sarah Zaleski, and Blake Dressel."Package deals for deep savings: Scaling deep retrofits in commercial buildings with integrated systems packages."ACEEE (2020).