Digital and intelligent buildings are critical to realizing efficient building energy operations
and a smart grid. With the increasing digitalization of processes throughout the life cycle of …

Building information modeling (BIM) has been widely adopted for representing and
exchanging building data across disciplines during building design and construction …

Energy flexibility of buildings can be an essential resource for a sustainable and reliable
power grid with the growing variable renewable energy shares and the trend to electrify and …

Abstract Digitalization and Artificial Intelligent (AI) are revolutionizing building operation
management. The abundance of data generated with the digitalization of buildings in the …

The US Department of Energy reports that commercial buildings constituted 47% of all
energy consumed in the US in 2017 [107]. On average, 30% of this energy is wasted [34] …

Control applications that facilitate Demand Flexibility (DF) are difficult to deploy at scale in
existing buildings. The heterogeneity of systems and non-standard naming conventions for …

Cities today encounter significant challenges pertaining to urbanization and population
growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are …

Defossilization of the current energy system is a major requirement to decelerate
anthropogenic climate change. However, a defossilized energy system is vastly more …

The current process for specifying, installing and commissioning building control sequences
is largely manual and based on ambiguous natural language specifications. It lacks a formal …

Energy consumption in buildings, both residential and commercial, accounts for
approximately 40% of all energy usage in the United States, and similar numbers are being …