Modeling urban building energy use: A review of modeling approaches and procedures

W Li, Y Zhou, K Cetin, J Eom, Y Wang, G Chen… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
With rapid urbanization and economic development, the world has been experiencing an
unprecedented increase in energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …

A review on building energy efficient design optimization rom the perspective of architects

X Shi, Z Tian, W Chen, B Si, X ** - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency is a mandatory requirement and integral part of green and sustainable
buildings. Energy efficient design optimization is both a design philosophy and a practical …

Methodologies and advancements in the calibration of building energy models

E Fabrizio, V Monetti - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
Buildings do not usually perform during operation as well as predicted during the design
stage. Disagreement between simulated and metered energy consumption represents a …

Bayesian calibration of building energy models with large datasets

A Chong, KP Lam, M Pozzi, J Yang - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
Bayesian calibration as proposed by Kennedy and O'Hagan [22] has been increasingly
applied to building energy models due to its ability to account for the discrepancy between …

An automated optimization method for calibrating building energy simulation models with measured data: Orientation and a case study

T Yang, Y Pan, J Mao, Y Wang, Z Huang - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the discrepancy between simulated energy consumption and measured data, it is
essential to calibrate building energy models to improve its fidelity in evaluating the …

A meta-model-based optimization approach for fast and reliable calibration of building energy models

J Chen, X Gao, Y Hu, Z Zeng, Y Liu - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Building energy model calibration with optimization aims to bridge the gap between
simulated energy consumption and measurement, thus aiding building retrofit and …

[HTML][HTML] Active–passive combined energy-efficient retrofit of rural residence with non-benchmarked construction: A case study in Shandong province, China

X Hu, Y **ang, H Zhang, Q Lin, W Wang, H Wang - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Unlike standard-restricted and well-equipped urban residential buildings, a large portion of
rural buildings sacrifice indoor comfort and energy efficiency to reduce the initial investment …

LSTM-based model predictive control for optimal temperature set-point planning

BK Jeon, EJ Kim - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The growing interest in saving building energy has increasingly motivated studies on model
predictive control (MPC), where system operation proceeds according to a planned …

Evaluation of calibration efficacy under different levels of uncertainty

Y Heo, DJ Graziano, L Guzowski… - Journal of Building …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines how calibration performs under different levels of uncertainty in model
input data. It specifically assesses the efficacy of Bayesian calibration to enhance the …

Development and assessment of simplified building representations under the context of an urban energy model: Application to arid climate environment

A Zekar, S El Khatib - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
For buildings in arid areas, requiring significant cooling loads, predictions of long term
building cooling loads and the development of accurate Building Energy Models (BEM's) are …