Today, buildings still account for almost half of the global energy consumption and carbon
emission. This highlights the necessity to increase energy efficiency requirements worldwide …

Occupant behaviour has a direct impact on building energy consumption. A better
understanding of human-building interactions enables to describe with higher accuracy the …

The increasing need to cool the air in our built environment is both a cause and an effect of
climate change. Air conditioning accounts for a large portion of global greenhouse gas …

With the rise of concern about newly-designed or retrofitted buildings to have robust
performance under different realistic scenarios, it is of vital importance to providing reliable …

As most countries have widespread and growing concerns about the sustainable
development of society, the requirement to continuously reduce energy consumption poses …

This work aims to reduce the energy consumption of existing buildings through retrofitting
and converting them into net zero energy buildings (NZEBs). Various retrofits for an existing …

A novel energy recovery ventilation unit with a hollow fiber membrane-based latent heat
exchanger is proposed and built to experimentally evaluate its operational performance and …

A compact heat-pump-driven liquid-desiccant air-conditioning unit for residential buildings is
proposed and constructed to validate its energy and air-conditioning performance …

Vacuum-based membrane dehumidifiers (VMDs), an emerging air dehumidification
technology, use selective membranes to remove moisture from humid air; these …

To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, the recent building trend is toward energy
efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the indoor sensible load. However, handling the …