Systematic review of the efficacy of data-driven urban building energy models during extreme heat in cities: Current trends and future outlook

N Mondal, P Anand, A Khan, C Deb, D Cheong… - Building …, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Urban Building Energy Modeling to Support Climate-Sensitive Planning in the Suburban Areas of Santiago de Chile

G Mutani, M Alehasin, H Yang, X Zhang, G Felmer - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Greenhouse gas emissions depend on natural and anthropic phenomena; however, to
reduce emissions, we can only intervene in terms of anthropic causes. Human activity is very …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking building design and operation parameters for residential heating demand forecasting with machine learning

M Alvarez-Sanz, FA Satriya, J Teres-Zubiaga… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union's Energy Performance in Buildings Directive has made
significant strides in enhancing building energy efficiency since its inception in 2002 …

[HTML][HTML] U-value data on an urban scale: Outlier detection using comparative thermography to improve data quality

M Geske, A Benz, C Voelker - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to climate change and limited energy resources, it is becoming increasingly important to
analyse and optimise the energy performance of existing building stocks. Urban building …

Urban residential building stock synthetic datasets for building energy performance analysis

U Ali, S Bano, MH Shamsi, D Sood, C Hoare, W Zuo… - Data in Brief, 2024 - Elsevier
The urban building stock dataset consists of synthetic input and output data for the energy
simulation of one million buildings. The dataset consists of four different residential types …

Controllable cross-building multi-objective optimisation for NZEBs: A framework Utilising parametric generation and intelligent algorithms

R Liu, T Fang, Y Cui, Y Wang - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Balancing performance and cost are crucial in optimising nearly zero-energy buildings. This
study proposes a method for efficient preliminary design tailored to diverse requirements. It …

Informing building retrofits at low computational costs: a multi-objective optimisation using machine learning surrogates of building performance simulation models

E Markarian, S Qiblawi, S Krishnan… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly used as surrogates for building
performance simulation (BPS) models to leverage their energy predictive capabilities while …

Advancing Urban Building Energy Modeling: Building Energy Simulations for Three Commercial Building Stocks through Archetype Development

MU Hossain, I Cicco, MM Bilec - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban building energy models (UBEMs), developed to understand the energy performance
of building stocks of a region, can aid in key decisions related to energy policy and climate …

Towards advanced uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of building energy performance using machine learning techniques

W Tian - Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Uncertainty analysis quantifies the inherently uncertain nature of building energy
performance, whereas sensitivity analysis identifies key factors to explain variations in …

An intelligent climate monitoring system for hygrothermal virtual measurement in closed buildings using Internet-of-things and artificial hydrocarbon networks

H Ponce, S Gutiérrez, J Botero-Valencia… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Studies analyzing indoor thermal environments comprising temperature and humidity may
be insufficient when obtaining data from sensors, which may be susceptible to inaccurate or …