With climate change leading to more frequent, more intense, and longer durations of
extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold snaps, it is essential to maintain safe …

Researchers have begun to realize first-hand that the causes and effects of telework are
much more complex than immediately apparent. While reduced commuting to work is widely …

Building energy use is highly sensitive to its occupants' energy-related behavior, including
their presence and interaction with different building systems. The modeling and simulation …

Accurately modeling and forecasting electricity consumption remains a challenging task due
to the large number of the statistical properties that characterize this time series such as …

Understanding the COVID-19 crisis that arose in 2019 is a significant important case study to
prepare scenarios and meet electrical energy consumption and high renewable energy …

Integrating occupant behavior with residential energy use for detailed energy quantification
has attracted research attention. However, many of the available models fail to capture …

Several contrasting effects are reported in the existing literature concerning the impact
assessment of the COVID-19 outbreak on the use of energy in buildings. Following an in …

The propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated measures taken by many
countries to slow down the spread of the disease, has significantly affected all aspects of …

Buildings' occupancy is one of the important factors causing the energy performance and
sustainability gap in buildings. Better occupancy prediction decreases this gap both in the …

Exceptional pandemic lockdown measures enabled singular experiments such as analysing
the energy consumption of vacant buildings. This paper assesses the impact of the COVID …