The significant energy use and resultant air pollutants emissions from the HVAC system
pose grave concerns to the global society. The model predictive control (MPC) approach is …

Energy demand fluctuations due to low probability high impact (LPHI) micro-climatic events
such as urban heat island effect (UHI) and heatwaves, pose significant challenges for urban …

Cities modify their local climate, and at the same time they suffer from the local impacts of
climate change. Our paper discusses the progress and obstacles in three active research …

In this paper, we describe a lumped thermal parameter model coupled with an EnergyPlus
model used for estimating temperature and specific humidity in the near-surface urban …

By taking the dynamic features of the multi-zone heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC)
system into consideration, a distributed iterative learning temperature control (DILTC) …

Major new metropolitan centers experience challenges during management of peak
electrical loads, typically occurring during extreme summer events. These peak loads …

City governments and their partners are increasingly focusing on the development of urban
energy efficiency strategies for buildings as a key component to meet policy-driven carbon …

An integrated environmental, economic, and health-informed approach was developed as a
decision making framework to assess the associated benefits of enriching the urban …

Environmental thermal loading on urban buildings is expected to increase owing to the
combined influence of a warming climate, increasing frequency and severity of extreme heat …

Simulating the real-time thermal behavior of rooms subject to air conditioning (AC) and
refrigeration is a key to cooling load calculations. A well-established resistance–capacitance …