[HTML][HTML] A critical review of occupant energy consumption behavior in buildings: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed

X Xu, H Yu, Q Sun, VWY Tam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Occupant behavior has been widely considered as one of the key influencing factors on
building energy consumption. The complexity of its formation mechanism and the dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Power to heat: Opportunity of flexibility services provided by building energy systems

Z Liu, Y Chen, X Yang, J Yan - Advances in Applied Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Buildings play a crucial role in global electricity consumption, but their function is evolving.
Rather than merely consuming energy, buildings have the potential to become energy …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use

C Wang, J Song, D Shi, JL Reyna, H Horsey… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Climate, technologies, and socio-economic changes will influence future building energy
use in cities. However, current low-resolution regional and state-level analyses are …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art review of occupant behavior modeling and implementation in building performance simulation

O Ahmed, N Sezer, M Ouf, LL Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

Strategic approaches towards achieving sustainable and effective building maintenance practices in maintenance-managed buildings: A combination of expert …

A Hauashdh, J Jailani, IA Rahman - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Buildings have been consistently identified as the sector with the greatest potential to reduce
both energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions through more sustainable …

Performance evaluation of sequence-to-sequence-Attention model for short-term multi-step ahead building energy predictions

G Li, F Li, T Ahmad, J Liu, T Li, X Fang, Y Wu - Energy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Traditional building energy prediction (BEP) methods usually solve time-series prediction
problems using either recursive strategy or direct strategy, which may ignore time …

Simultaneous community energy supply-demand optimization by microgrid operation scheduling optimization and occupant-oriented flexible energy-use regulation

C Zhang, Y Rezgui, Z Luo, B Jiang, T Zhao - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Community microgrids represent a pivotal solution for addressing energy conservation and
reducing carbon emissions. However, few studies focused on the methods of concurrently …

Concepts of user-centred lighting controls for office applications: A systematic literature review

S Hammes, D Geisler-Moroder, M Hauer… - Building and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Due to the very limited information available during building design phase, lighting
automation systems tend to follow pre-defined control curves and use normative default …

Impact of urban wind environment on urban building energy: A review of mechanisms and modeling

P Jie, M Su, N Gao, Y Ye, X Kuang, J Chen, P Li… - Building and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In the context of global warming, improving energy-use efficiency is an important research
topic in the fields of green buildings and eco-cities. There is an indivisible coupling …

Transition towards carbon neutrality: Forecasting Hong Kong's buildings carbon footprint by 2050 using a machine learning approach

H Dong, L Zhang - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Hong Kong has planned to achieve zero-carbon emissions before 2050. Hong Kong's
building sector is responsible for approximately 60% of carbon emissions, while its …