Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2015

Price, Phillip N., Bruce Nordman, Mary Ann Piette, Richard E. Brown, Janie Page, Steven Lanzisera, and Jessica Granderson."Automated Measurement and Verification and Innovative Occupancy Detection Technologies." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Kaiyu Sun, Rongpeng Zhang, Ryohei Hinokuma, Shinichi Kasahara, and Yoshinori Yura."Development and validation of a new variable refrigerant flow systemmodel in EnergyPlus."Energy and Buildings 117 (2015). DOI

Turner, William J. N., Iain S. Walker, and Jordan Roux."Residential Pre-Cooling: Mechanical Cooling and Air-Side Economizers." (2015).

Meier, Alan K., and Quentin Aillot."Builder-Installed Electrical Loads in New Homes."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2015).

Settlemyre, Kevin, and Cynthia Regnier."Controlling Energy Performance on the Big Stage — The New York Times Company." (2015).

Harding, Ari, Andrea C. Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."A New Campus Built on Efficiency." (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, Ari Harding, and Alastair Robinson."Achieving a Net Zero Energy Retrofit – in a humid, temperate climate – lessons from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A. Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).

Taylor, Margaret, C. Anna Spurlock, and Hung-Chia Yang."Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards." (2015).

Pritoni, Marco, Alan K. Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer."Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 8 (2015). DOI

Touzani, Samir, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, Jessica Granderson, David A. Jump, and Cody Taylor."M & V Shootout: Setting the Stage For Testing the Performance of New Energy Baseline."2015 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).

Coleman, Philip."Escalation Rates in Energy Savings Performance Contracts."Energy Engineering 112.5 (2015). DOI

Coleman, Philip."Guide to Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS)." (2015).

Lask, Kathleen M., Kayje Booker, Taewon Han, Jessica Granderson, Nina Yang, Cristina Ceballos, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance comparison of charcoal cookstoves for Haiti: Laboratory testing with Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests."Energy for Sustainable Development 26 (2015) 79 - 86. DOI

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R. Chan, Richard C. Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Mathew, Paul A., Laurel N. Dunn, Michael D. Sohn, Andrea C. Mercado, Claudine Custudio, and Travis Walter."Big-data for building energy performance: Lessons from assembling a very large national database of building energy use."Applied Energy 140 (2015) 85 - 93. DOI

D'Oca, Simona, and Tianzhen Hong."Occupancy Schedules Learning Process Through a Data Mining Framework."Energy and Buildings 88 (2015) 395-408. DOI

Less, Brennan, and Iain S. Walker."Deep Energy Retrofit Guidance for the Building America Solutions Center." (2015).

Logue, Jennifer M., William J. N. Turner, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."A simplified model for estimating population-scale energy impacts of building envelope air-tightening and mechanical ventilation retrofits."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 9.1 (2015). DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis." (2015).

Less, Brennan, Nasim A. Mullen, Brett C. Singer, and Iain S. Walker."Indoor Air Quality in 24 California Residences Designed as High-Performance Homes." (2015). DOI

Walker, Iain S., and J. Chris Stratton."Laboratory Evaluation Of Air Flow Measurement Methods For Residential HVAC Returns."ASHRAE Transactions 21, Part 2 (2015).

Mills, Evan."Looking For Value in All The Wrong Places: Toward Expanded Consideration of Green and High Performance Attributes in Non-residential Property Appraisals in the United States." (2015).

Mills, Evan."A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States." (2015).