In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

In the European Union, the building sector is one of the largest energy consumer with about
40% of the final energy consumption. Reducing consumption is also a sociological …

There are several ways to attempt to model a building and its heat gains from external
sources as well as internal ones in order to evaluate a proper operation, audit retrofit …

The evaluation of building energy consumption usually requires building energy profiles on
an hourly basis. Computer simulations can be used to obtain this information but generating …

This paper demonstrates the application of Autotune, a methodology aimed at automatically
producing calibrated building energy models using measured data, in two case studies. In …

Building model calibration is critical in bringing simulated energy use closer to the actual
consumption. This paper presents a novel, automated model calibration approach that uses …

Outdoor thermal comfort affects the health of the people and the quality of life in urban areas.
This is the reason why in the past few years different mitigation strategies for the …

Researchers in many countries are develo** surrogate models to estimate the energy
performance of the building stock. In Brazil, the building energy labelling system can be …

Water flow window has very good application potential in zero carbon buildings of the warm
climate. In this study, the effects of water-flow window configurations were investigated, such …

This paper discusses a new algorithm and defines the functionality required for develo** a
short-term load-forecasting module for demand response applications. Feedforward artificial …