Publications: BTUS Urban Science
2021
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M. Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings
252 (2021) 111383. DOI
2020
Luo, Xuan, Pouya Vahmani, Tianzhen Hong, and Andrew Jones."City-Scale Building Anthropogenic Heating during Heat Waves."Atmosphere
11.11 (2020) 1206. DOI
Salim, Flora D., Bing Dong, Mohamed Ouf, Qi Wang, Ilaria Pigliautile, Xuyuan Kang, Tianzhen Hong, Wenbo Wu, Yapan Liu, Shakila Khan Rumi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jingjing An, Hengfang Deng, Wei Shao, Jakub Dziedzic, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Meng Kong, Claudia Fabiani, Anna Laura Pisello, and Da Yan."Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey."Building and Environment
183 (2020) 106964. DOI
Luo, , Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Yu-Hang Tang."Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context."Energies
13.9 (2020) 2382. DOI
2019
Piette, Mary Ann, Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash."Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System."Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19
(2019). DOI
Langevin, Jared, Chioke B. Harris, and Janet L. Reyna."Assessing the Potential to Reduce U.S. Building CO2 Emissions 80% by 2050."Joule
(2019). DOI
Singh, Reshma, Baptiste Ravache, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy Modeling in Urban Districts: Forecast of multi-sector Energy Use and GHG Emissions."
(2019).
Xu, Xiaodong, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Jiayu Chen."Incorporating machine learning with building network analysis to predict multi-building energy use."Energy and Buildings
186 (2019) 80 - 97. DOI
Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, Ziang Liu, and Ning Xu."Forecasting district-scale energy dynamics through integrating building network and long short-term memory learning algorithm."Applied Energy
248 (2019) 217 - 230. DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., George A. Ban-Weiss, Paul Berdahl, Sharon S. Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Nathalie Dumas, Haley E. Gilbert, Howdy Goudey, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Jan Kleissl, Benjamin Kurtz, Yun Li, Yan Long, Arash Mohegh, Negin Nazarian, Matteo Pizzicotti, Pablo J. Rosado, Marion L. Russell, Jonathan L. Slack, Xiaochen Tang, Jiachen Zhang, and Weilong Zhang."Solar-Reflective “Cool” Walls: Benefits, Technologies, and Implementation."
(2019). DOI
Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper."Development of city buildings dataset for urban building energy modeling."Energy and Buildings
183 (2019) 252 - 265. DOI
2018
Jain, Rajeev, Xuan Luo, Gökhan Sever, Tianzhen Hong, and Charlie Catlett."Representation and evolution of urban weather boundary conditions in downtown Chicago."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2018) 1 - 14. DOI
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."Clustering and statistical analyses of air-conditioning intensity and use patterns in residential buildings."Energy and Buildings
174 (2018) 214 - 227. DOI
Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy
225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI
Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network."Energy
144 (2018) 20 - 30. DOI
2017
Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Automatic Generation and Simulation of Urban Building Energy Models Based on City Datasets for City-Scale Building Retrofit Analysis."
(2017).
Cui, Ying, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Jingjin Ma."Temporal and spatial characteristics of the urban heat island in Beijing and the impact on building design and energy performance."
(2017).
2016
Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A Tale of Three District Energy Systems: Metrics and Future Opportunities."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2016).
Liang, Xin, Tianzhen Hong, and Geoffrey Qiping Shen."Improving the accuracy of energy baseline models for commercial buildings with occupancy data."Applied Energy
(2016).
2013
Pang, Xiufeng, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Improving Building Performance at Urban Scale with a Framework for Real-time Data Sharing."
(2013).
2012
Kumar, K. Nandha, B. Sivaneasan, P.L. So, H.B. Gooi, Nilesh Jadhav, Reshma Singh, and Chris Marnay."Sustainable Campus with PEV and Microgrid."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2012).
Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Intelligent Building Energy Information and Control Systems for Low-Energy Operations and Optimal Demand Response."IEEE Design and Test of Computers
29.4 (2012) 8-16. DOI