Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2020

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Yoon, Nari, Leslie K. Norford, Ali Malkawi, Holly Samuelson, and Mary Ann Piette."Dynamic metrics of natural ventilation cooling effectiveness for interactive modeling."Building and Environment 180.106994 (2020). DOI
Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Li, Xiangfeng, Yuan Ying, Xiaodong Xu, Yiwei Wang, Syed Asad Hussain, Tianzhen Hong, and Wei Wang."Identifying key determinants for building energy analysis from urban building datasets."Building and Environment 181 (2020) 107114. DOI
Earni, Shankar, and Steve E. Greenberg."The Installation of Direct Water-Cooling Systems to Reduce Cooling Energy Requirements for High-Performance Computing Centers."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Bergfeld, Katie, Paul A. Mathew, Marshall Duer-Balkind, James Perakis, Pegah Noori khah, Travis Walter, and Andrew Held."Making Data-Driven Policy Decisions for the Nation’s First Building Energy Performance Standards."ACEEE Summer Study on Buildings 2020 (2020). DOI
Chalasani, Sravan, Clayton Johnson, Molly Morabito, Alexander Newkirk, Liyang Wang, Ian M. Hoffman, and Christopher T. Payne."Messaging for Impact: Behavioral Science-Based Communication Strategies to Advance Energy Efficiency."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Alstone, Peter, Richard E. Brown, Marco Pritoni, David H. Blum, Kun Zhang, and Anand Prakash."Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020).
Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."What's in a Name? Developing a Standardized Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
McIlvennie, Claire, Christopher Koliba, and Marco Pritoni."Who Controls Energy in the Smart Home? A Multidisciplinary Taxonomy."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Elie Azar, Marilena De Simone, Zsofia Belafi, Christiane Berger, Dong Chen, Simona D'Oca, Tianzhen Hong, Quan Jin, Dolaana Khovalyg, Roberto Lamberts, Vojislav Novakovic, June Young Park, Manfred Plagmann, Vinu Subashini Rajus, Marika Vellei, Silke Verbruggen, Andreas Wagner, Eric Willems, Da Yan, and Jin Zhou."An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards."Building and Environment 179 (2020) 106906. DOI
Yang, Bin, Xiaojing Li, Yingzhen Hou, Alan K. Meier, Xiaogang Cheng, Joon-Ho Choi, Faming Wang, Huan Wang, Andreas Wagner, Da Yan, Angui Li, Thomas Olofsson, and Haibo Li."Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses -A review."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110261. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges."Applied Energy 269 (2020) 115036. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Hui Zhang, Yingdong Hi, Maohui Luo, Ziwei Li, Tianzhen Hong, and Borong Lin."Revisiting individual and group differences in thermal comfort based on ASHRAE database."Energy and Buildings 219 (2020) 110017. DOI
WuDunn, Mark, Avideh Zakhor, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."​Aerial 3D Building Reconstruction from RGB Drone Imagery."SPIE Geospatial Informatics X (2020).
Malik, Jeetika, Ronita Bardhan, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Contextualising adaptive comfort behaviour within low-income housing of Mumbai, India."Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106877. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong."Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home."Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106842. DOI
Prakash, Anand, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David H. Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellic, Richard E. Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids."Energies 13.12 (2020) 3093. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Jingyi Wang, Yueer He, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong."Dimension analysis of subjective thermal comfort metrics based on ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database using machine learning."Journal of Building Engineering 29 (2020) 101120. DOI
O’Brien, William, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Julia Day, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Farhang Tahmasebi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, H. Burak Gunay, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller, and Christiane Berger."Introducing IEA EBC Annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation."Building and Environment (2020) 106738. DOI
Luo, , Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Yu-Hang Tang."Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context."Energies 13.9 (2020) 2382. DOI
Yoon, Nari, Mary Ann Piette, Jung Min Han, Wentao Wu, and Ali Malkawi."Optimization of Window Positions for Wind-Driven Natural Ventilation Performance."Energies 13.10 (2020) 2464. DOI