Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges

Z Wang, T Hong - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Building controls are becoming more important and complicated due to the dynamic and
stochastic energy demand, on-site intermittent energy supply, as well as energy storage …

Advances in research and applications of CO2-based demand-controlled ventilation in commercial buildings: A critical review of control strategies and performance …

X Lu, Z Pang, Y Fu, Z O'Neill - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The carbon dioxide (CO 2)-based demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) has
attracted prompt attention from the Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) …

Benchmarking high performance HVAC Rule-Based controls with advanced intelligent Controllers: A case study in a Multi-Zone system in Modelica

X Lu, Y Fu, Z O'Neill - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The design, commissioning, and retrofit of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC)
control systems are crucially important for energy efficiency. However, designers and control …

A holistic fault impact analysis of the high-performance sequences of operation for HVAC systems: Modelica-based case study in a medium-office building

X Lu, Y Fu, Z O'Neill, J Wen - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
ASHRAE Guideline 36: High-performance sequences of operation (SOO) for Heating,
Ventilation, and Air-conditioning (HVAC) Systems has been demonstrated to save 17%-30 …

OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification

M Wetter, P Ehrlich, A Gautier, M Grahovac, P Haves… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

IBPSA Project 1: BIM/GIS and Modelica framework for building and community energy system design and operation–ongoing developments, lessons learned and …

M Wetter, C van Treeck, L Helsen… - … series: Earth and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
IBPSA Project 1 develops and demonstrates an open-source BIM/GIS and Modelica
Framework for building and community energy system design and operation. The project …

Shepherding metadata through the building lifecycle

G Fierro, AK Prakash, C Mosiman, M Pritoni… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its
lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of …

Investigation of HVAC operation strategies for office buildings during COVID-19 pandemic

CA Faulkner, JE Castellini Jr, W Zuo… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
To minimize the indoor transmission of contaminants, such as the virus that can lead to
COVID-19, buildings must provide the best indoor air quality possible. Improving indoor air …

Tradeoffs among indoor air quality, financial costs, and CO2 emissions for HVAC operation strategies to mitigate indoor virus in US office buildings

CA Faulkner, JE Castellini Jr, Y Lou, W Zuo… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adapting building operation during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve indoor air quality
(IAQ) while ensuring sustainable solutions in terms of costs and CO 2 emissions is …

A view on future building system modeling and simulation

M Wetter - Building performance simulation for design and …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter presents what a future environment for building system modeling and
simulation may look like. As buildings continue to require increased performance, more …