This paper seeks to address ten questions that explore the burgeoning field of Human-
Building Interaction (HBI), an interdisciplinary field that represents the next frontier in …

A building system for operating a building and managing building information causes one or
more processors to receive building data from one or more building data sources, generate …

The US Department of Energy reports that commercial buildings constituted 47% of all
energy consumed in the US in 2017 [107]. On average, 30% of this energy is wasted [34] …

Data-driven building operation and maintenance research such as metadata inference, fault
detection and diagnosis, occupant-centric controls (OCCs), and non-invasive load …

Access to large amounts of real-world data has long been a barrier to the development and
evaluation of analytics applications for the built environment. Open datasets exist, but they …

Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its
lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of …

Achieving a widespread transition to grid-interactive, efficient buildings (GEBs) depends
critically on there being sufficient interoperability among connected building systems. While …

Abstract Building Management Systems (BMS) are crucial in the drive towards smart
sustainable cities. This is due to the fact that they have been effective in significantly …

The recent advances in the automation of metadata normalization and the invention of a
unified schema---Brick---alleviate the metadata normalization challenge for deploying …

Current efforts establishing semantic metadata standards for the built environment span
academia [3], industry [1] and standards bodies [2, 28]. For these standards to be effective …