Integrating renewable sources into energy system for smart city as a sagacious strategy towards clean and sustainable process

AT Hoang, XP Nguyen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Among the main components of a smart city, the energy system plays a vital and core role in
the transition towards a sustainable urban life. Furthermore, the utilization of renewable …

Climate change adaptation with energy resilience in energy districts—A state-of-the-art review

Y Zhou - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency, flexibility, and robustness can promote system sustainability and
decarbonization under low-impact and high-probability events, whereas energy resilience is …

Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves and power outages: Key concepts and definition

S Attia, R Levinson, E Ndongo, P Holzer… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of climate resilience has gained extensive international attention during the last
few years and is now seen as the future target for building cooling design. However, before …

Energy, economic and comfort optimization of building retrofits considering climate change: A simulation-based NSGA-III approach

F Mostafazadeh, SJ Eirdmousa, M Tavakolan - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving building energy performance is central to promote sustainability and mitigate
climate change, but it has proved to be a challenging process requiring investigation of a …

Building envelope design: Multi-objective optimization to minimize energy consumption, global cost and thermal discomfort. Application to different Italian climatic …

F Ascione, N Bianco, GM Mauro, DF Napolitano - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper proposes a multi-objective optimization approach to address the energy design of
the building envelope. A genetic algorithm (GA) is implemented by means of the coupling …

Smart energy systems: A critical review on design and operation optimization

Y Xu, C Yan, H Liu, J Wang, Z Yang, Y Jiang - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Smart energy systems that integrate multiple energy sectors are considered a promising
paradigm for providing a comprehensive and optimized solution for an achievable …

Energy performance optimization of existing buildings: A literature review

N Hashempour, R Taherkhani, M Mahdikhani - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Energy retrofit and renovation of existing buildings have an effective role in reducing carbon
dioxide emissions and ultimately global warming. Therefore, there is an increasing interest …

A systematic review of genetic algorithm-based multi-objective optimisation for building retrofitting strategies towards energy efficiency

I Costa-Carrapiço, R Raslan, JN González - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Most common practices for solving building retrofit problems lack efficiency and overall
robustness. Knowledge of novel methods that support decision-making (DM) for retrofitting is …

Optimization and BIM-based lifecycle assessment integration for energy efficiency retrofit of buildings

M Motalebi, A Rashidi, MM Nasiri - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
A retrofit plan for improving the energy efficiency of an existing building can contribute to a
sustainable built environment. This study presents a novel framework for integrating …

Multi-objective optimization methodology for net zero energy buildings

F Harkouss, F Fardoun, PH Biwole - Journal of Building Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The challenge in Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) design is to find the best
combination of design strategies that will face the energy performance problems of a …