Building energy simulation (BES) plays a significant role in buildings with applications such
as architectural design, retrofit analysis, and optimizing building operation and controls …

A building system is highly nonlinear and commonly includes a variety of parameters
ranging from the architectural design to the building mechanical and energy system. Serving …

Buildings in cities consume up to 70% of all primary energy. To achieve cities' energy and
climate goals, it is necessary to reduce energy use and associated greenhouse gas …

Urban building energy model (UBEM) is a powerful tool to simulate performance and
evaluate efficiency of upgrades for a group of buildings under the urban context. However …

The construction industry accounts for approximately 40% of the global carbon emissions
and is the largest consumer of materials and energy. Given the Paris Agreement target …

The increase in energy consumption, environmental pollution issues, and low-carbon
agenda has grown the research area of demand side management (DSM). DSM programs …

Urban-scale building energy modeling (UBEM)—using building modeling to understand
how a group of buildings will perform together—is attracting increasing attention in the …

The recent rapid development of building automation systems (BAS) implies a need to
identify appropriate technologies for retrofitting into homes and offices without replacing …

With the increased severity, intensity, and frequency of “heatwaves” due to climate change, it
has become imperative to study the overheating risks in existing buildings. To do so, a …

Building automation systems are building control and management systems that
control/operate different systems in a building such as HVAC, lighting, safety systems …