After a century of relative stability in the electricity industry, extensive deployment of
distributed energy resources and recent advances in computation and communication …

As urban development progresses, the built environment control has faced more critical
challenges in improving energy efficiency, air quality, and environmental comfort. Occupant …

Ensuring occupants' thermal comfort and work performance is one of the primary objectives
for building environment conditioning systems. In recent years, there emerged many …

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems have been adopted to create
comfortable, healthy and safe indoor environments. In the control loop, the technical feature …

Building air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) systems are responsible for
significant energy consumption and yet, dissatisfaction with the thermal environment is …

Researchers have shown that the physiological-based personal comfort models (PCM) are
capable of addressing individual differences as well as transient thermal comfort. Given that …

Occupant satisfaction is influenced by the interaction and combined effects of multi-domain
indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in buildings. While there are literature reviews on multi …

Abstract Human-Building Interaction (HBI) is a convergent field that represents the growing
complexities of the dynamic interplay between human experience and intelligence within …

Research efforts have demonstrated the potentials of improving the performance of Heating,
Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems by leveraging personalized thermal …

In the course of thermal comfort theory, researchers have been investigating both static
thermal comfort and adaptive thermal comfort. Compared to static thermal comfort metrics …