Nowadays, there is growing interest in all the smart technologies that provide us with
information and knowledge about the human environment. In the energy field, thanks to the …

Buildings are one of the significant sources of energy consumption and greenhouse gas
emission in urban areas all over the world. Lighting control and building integrated …

Short-term load prediction, which forecasts a building's thermal load with a lead time ranging
from seconds to a few days, is essential for not only monitoring and controlling the system …

With the increased severity, intensity, and frequency of “heatwaves” due to climate change, it
has become imperative to study the overheating risks in existing buildings. To do so, a …

Selecting an appropriate software tool for a particular energy-management system is a
challenging task as there is little information available and several software tools to pick …

The current heating measures used by residents in hot summer and cold winter zone have
several drawbacks such as single source and high operating costs, so there is an urgent …

This paper presents a framework for numerical building validation enhancement based on
detailed building specifications from in-situ measurements and evidence-based validation …

As the cooling energy demand in buildings is set to increase dramatically in the future, the
exploitation of passive solutions like natural ventilation could prove vital in reducing the …

Building energy simulations rely on assumptions that can affect their reliability. Occupant
behavior in particular is highly uncertain, especially for residential buildings. The great …

Abstract Calibration of a Building Energy Model (BEM) is necessary to reduce the
discrepancies between the simulation results and real data. This research work proposes a …