[HTML][HTML] Natural ventilation in warm climates: The challenges of thermal comfort, heatwave resilience and indoor air quality

T Ahmed, P Kumar, L Mottet - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In buildings, energy is primarily consumed by mechanical air conditioning systems. Low
energy alternatives, such as natural ventilation, are needed. However, they need to be able …

Intelligent optimization framework of near zero energy consumption building performance based on a hybrid machine learning algorithm

X Wu, Z Feng, H Chen, Y Qin, S Zheng, L Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The realization of a near zero energy consumption building (NZEB) is one of the important
goals to promote the sustainable development of green buildings. To achieve the goal of …

Multiobjective optimization of building energy consumption based on BIM-DB and LSSVM-NSGA-II

B Chen, Q Liu, H Chen, L Wang, T Deng… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The building envelope performance significantly influences the building energy
consumption, and the major influencing factors of the building envelope include the external …

Building information modelling-enabled multi-objective optimization for energy consumption parametric analysis in green buildings design using hybrid machine …

Y Liu, T Li, W Xu, Q Wang, H Huang, BJ He - Energy and Buildings, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Green buildings (GB) have been widely promoted in various nations. However, the post
occupancy evaluation suggests many GB cannot well fulfill the expected targets. To …

Federated learning-based short-term building energy consumption prediction method for solving the data silos problem

J Li, C Zhang, Y Zhao, W Qiu, Q Chen, X Zhang - Building Simulation, 2022‏ - Springer
Transfer learning is an effective method to predict the energy consumption of information-
poor buildings by learning transferable knowledge from operational data of information-rich …

An integrated framework for multi-objective optimization of building performance: Carbon emissions, thermal comfort, and global cost

R Chen, YS Tsay, S Ni - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we proposed an integrated optimization framework to explore minimum
building carbon emissions (BCE), indoor discomfort hours (IDH), and global cost (GC) of …

A review of integration between BIM and CFD for building outdoor environment simulation

L Zheng, W Lu, L Wu, Q Zhou - Building and Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Numerous studies have demonstrated that the climate of cities and human settlements can
affect building performance and human comfort. Historically, ambient data were collected …

Energy-quota-based integrated solutions for heating and cooling of residential buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone in China

X Cao, R Yao, C Ding, N Zhou, W Yu, J Yao, J **ong… - Energy and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Hot Summer and Cold Winter (HSCW) climate zone along the Yangtze River
Valley Region is an economically well-developed region in China. With the improvement of …

[HTML][HTML] Windcatchers and their applications in contemporary architecture

PK Sangdeh, N Nasrollahi - Energy and Built Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Natural ventilation and cooling have played an essential role in providing comfort
conditions. Windcatchers are passive cooling systems and one of the most familiar elements …

Multi-objective optimization design of residential area based on microenvironment simulation

Z Li, Y Zou, H **a, C ** - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In current research on old communities, less attention is given to the comfort and
greenhouse gas emissions of the indoor and outdoor physical environment. Only a few …