Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2019

Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Predicting plug loads with occupant count data through a deep learning approach."Energy 181 (2019) 29 - 42. DOI
Walter, Travis, and Paul A. Mathew."Is the BPD Nationally Representative? A Comparison of the Building Performance Database to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey." (2019).
Harris, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Kristen Parrish, and Jessica Granderson."Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings."Sustainable Cities and Society 46 (2019) 101389. DOI
Less, Brennan, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, Max H. Sherman, and Jordan D. Clark."Energy savings with outdoor temperature-based smart ventilation control strategies in advanced California homes."Energy and Buildings 194 (2019) 317 - 327. 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
Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I. Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Ian Vaino, Claire Curtin, Arman Shehabi, Louis-Benoit Desroches, and Nathaniel Mills."A Plug-Loads Game Changer: Computer Gaming Energy Efficiency without Performance Compromise." (2019).
Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, Jonathan L. Slack, Leo I. Rainer, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations." (2019).
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
Schwartz, Peter, Brian F. Gerke, Jennifer Potter, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Kelly Sanders, Yao-Yung Wen, Jasmine Shepard, and Teddy Kisch."The Value Proposition for Cost-Effective, Demand Responsive-Enabling, Nonresidential Lighting System Retrofits in California Buildings." (2019).
Clark, Jordan D., Brennan Less, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Efficacy of occupancy-based smart ventilation control strategies in energy-efficient homes in the United States."Building and Environment 156 (2019) 253 - 267. DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M., Howdy Goudey, Sharon S. Chen, Haley E. Gilbert, George A. Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L. Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang."Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures." (2019). DOI
Guo, Siyue, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, and Ying Cui."A novel approach for selecting typical hot-year (THY) weather data."Applied Energy 242 (2019) 1634 - 1648. DOI
Wetter, Michael, and Jianjun Hu."Quayside Energy Systems Analysis." (2019).
Wang, Zhe, Thomas Parkinson, Peixian Li, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong."The Squeaky wheel: Machine learning for anomaly detection in subjective thermal comfort votes."Building and Environment 151 (2019) 219 - 227. DOI
Jia, Ruoxi, Ming Jin, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Costas Spanos."Advanced Building Control via Deep Reinforcement Learning."Energy Procedia 158 (2019) 6158 - 6163. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Data fusion in predicting internal heat gains for office buildings through a deep learning approach."Applied Energy 240 (2019) 386 - 398. DOI
Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Nan Li, Ryan Qi Wang, and Jiayu Chen."Linking energy-cyber-physical systems with occupancy prediction and interpretation through WiFi probe-based ensemble classification."Applied Energy 236 (2019) 55 - 69. DOI
Luo, Na, Wenguo Weng, Xiaoyu Xu, Tianzhen Hong, Ming Fu, and Kaiyu Sun."Assessment of occupant-behavior-based indoor air quality and its impacts on human exposure risk: A case study based on the wildfires in Northern California."Science of The Total Environment 686 (2019) 1251 - 1261. DOI
Van Cutsem, Olivier, Maher Kayal, David H. Blum, and Marco Pritoni."Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs."IEEE PowerTech Milan 2019 (2019).
Wang, , Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Ning Xu, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Xiaofang Shan."Cross-source sensing data fusion for building occupancy prediction with adaptive lasso feature filtering."Building and Environment 162 (2019) 106280. DOI
Li, , Han, Tianzhen Hong, and Marina Sofos."An inverse approach to solving zone air infiltration rate and people count using indoor environmental sensor data."Energy and Buildings 198 (2019) 228 - 242. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2019) 109593. DOI
Langevin, Jared."Longitudinal dataset of human-building interactions in U.S. offices."Scientific Data 6.1 (2019). DOI
Meier, Alan K.."New standby power targets."Energy Efficiency 12.1 (2019) 175 - 186. DOI
Widergren, Steve, Ron Melton, Aditya Khandekar, Bruce Nordman, and Mark Knight."The Plug-and-Play Electricity Era: Interoperability to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime."IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 17.5 (2019) 47 - 58. DOI