Practical issues in implementing machine-learning models for building energy efficiency: Moving beyond obstacles

Z Wang, J Liu, Y Zhang, H Yuan, R Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Implementing machine-learning models in real applications is crucial to achieving intelligent
building control and high energy efficiency. Over the past few decades, numerous studies …

Modeling and simulation of energy-related human-building interaction: A systematic review

S Norouziasl, A Jafari, Y Zhu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Building energy use is highly sensitive to its occupants' energy-related behavior, including
their presence and interaction with different building systems. The modeling and simulation …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting energy consumption for residential buildings using ANN through parametric modeling

E Elbeltagi, H Wefki - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Controlling buildings energy consumption is a great practical significance. During early
design stage, accurate and rapid prediction of energy consumption could provide a …

Analysis of feature matrix in machine learning algorithms to predict energy consumption of public buildings

Y Ding, L Fan, X Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of building information and energy consumption data, machine
learning methods are increasingly being used for predicting and analyzing building energy …

Accurate heating, ventilation and air conditioning system load prediction for residential buildings using improved ant colony optimization and wavelet neural network

Y Huang, C Li - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of the building load is crucial to ensure the energy saving and improve
the operational efficiency of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In …

Measuring and benchmarking the productivity of excavators in infrastructure projects: A deep neural network approach

M Kassem, E Mahamedi, K Rogage, K Duffy… - Automation in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inefficiencies in the management of earthmoving equipment greatly contribute to the
productivity gap of infrastructure projects. This paper develops and tests a Deep Neural …

Machine learning-based cooling load prediction and optimal control for mechanical ventilative cooling in high-rise buildings

H Sha, M Moujahed, D Qi - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Ventilation has proved to be an effective solution for reducing building cooling load in high-
rise buildings, ie ventilative cooling (VC), especially in cold climates. Mechanical ventilation …

Performance optimization studies on heating, cooling and lighting energy systems of buildings during the design stage: A review

AAA Gassar, C Koo, TW Kim, SH Cha - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Optimizing the building performance at the early design stage is justified as a promising
approach to achieve many sustainable design goals in buildings; in particular, it opens a …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive hot water production based on Supervised Learning

A Heidari, N Olsen, P Mermod, A Alahi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A major challenge in the common approach of hot water generation in residential houses
lies in the highly stochastic nature of domestic hot water (DHW) demand. Learning hot water …

[HTML][HTML] AI-Assisted approach for building energy and carbon footprint modeling

CY Chen, KK Chai, E Lau - Energy and AI, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an energy and carbon footprint modelling using artificial intelligence
technique to assess the impact of occupant density for various types of office building. We …