OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Building Services Engineering Research & Technology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance assessment of free standing and building integrated grid connected photovoltaic system for southern part of India	22
A literature review of building energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics co-simulation strategies and its implications on the accuracy of energy predictions	19
What do we know about indoor air quality of nurseries? A review of the literature	18
Energy performance and loss analysis of 100 kWp grid-connected rooftop solar photovoltaic system	18
Window operation behaviour and indoor air quality during lockdown: A monitoring-based simulation-assisted study in London	14
Residential retrofit in the UK: The optimum retrofit measures necessary for effective heat pump use	14
A review of approaches and applications in building stock energy and indoor environment modelling	14
Associations between indoor soundscapes, building services and window opening behaviour during the COVID-19 lockdown	13
A review of research on dynamic thermal comfort	13
A novel hybrid Harris hawk optimization and sine cosine algorithm based home energy management system for residential buildings	12
A multi-objective optimization operation strategy for ice-storage air-conditioning system based on improved firefly algorithm	12
Feasibility study to detect occupant thermal sensation using a low-cost thermal camera for indoor environments in Indonesia	11
Vision-based human activity recognition for reducing building energy demand	11
Managing the risk of the energy performance gap in non-domestic buildings	10
Indoor occupancy estimation from carbon dioxide concentration using parameter estimation algorithms	10
Opportunities and barriers to business engagement in the UK domestic retrofit sector: An industry perspective	10
Characterising the English school stock using a unified national on-site survey and energy database	9
Examining the magnitude and perception of summertime overheating in London care homes	9
Towards active buildings: Rating grid-servicing buildings	9
Opportunities to decarbonize heat in the UK using Urban Wastewater Heat Recovery	9
Development and evaluation of a vision-based transfer learning approach for indoor fire and smoke detection	9
Solving the comfort-retrofit conundrum through post-occupancy evaluation and multi-objective optimisation	8
Securing Internet of Things devices by enabling Ethereum blockchain using smart contracts	8
A holistic sequential fault detection and diagnostics framework for multiple zone variable air volume air handling unit systems	7
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	7

A field study and analysis of passengers arriving at lift lobbies in social groups in multi-storey office, hotel and residential buildings	7
A data-driven workflow to improve energy efficient operation of commercial buildings: A review with real-world examples	7
Net zero carbon: Energy performance targets for offices	7
Overheating assessment in flats with glazed balconies in warm-summer humid continental climate	7
Measurement and rapid assessment of indoor air quality at mass gathering events to assess ventilation performance and reduce aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2	6
Climatic zoning for the building thermal design in China's rural areas	6
Perception of wellbeing in educational spaces	6
The effect of opening windows on the airflow distribution inside naturally ventilated residential bedrooms with ceiling fans	6
Energy-saving potential assessment of a classroom building envelope through sensitivity analysis and multi-objective optimization under different climate types	6
Towards implementing an indoor environmental quality standard in buildings: A pilot study	6
Improving indoor air quality and occupant health through smart control of windows and portable air purifiers in residential buildings	6
Analysis of the characteristics of noise from substations in buildings	5
The potential for the Passive House standard in Longyearbyen – the High Arctic	5
Research on the design and application of capillary heat exchangers for heat pumps in coastal areas	5
Our climate conditions are already changing – Should we care?	5
Numerical simulation on year-round performance of water-flow window with different shading control modes	5
Demand response with heat pumps: Practical implementation of three different control options	5
Evaluation of thermal comfort in mixed-mode buildings in temperate oceanic climates using American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers Comfort Database II	4
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	4
Simulation and experimental study on the elbow pressure loss of large air duct with different internal guide vanes	4
Energy, exergy and economic assessments of the dual-mode evaporative cooler for various international climate zones	4
Domestic heating with compact combination hybrids (gas boiler and heat pump): A simple English stock model of different heating system scenarios	4
Study on the cooling performance of a radiative cooling-based ventilated roof for its application in buildings	4
Ambient loop district heating and cooling networks with integrated mobility, power and interseasonal storage	4
Managing energy performance in buildings from design to operation using modelling and calibration	4
Performance study on photovoltaic thermal building façade component in multi-energy generation during winter	3
Full-size experimental assessment of the aerodynamic sealing of air curtains for particulate matter	3
Indoor thermal environment and energy performance in a central air heating system using a heat pump for a house with underfloor space for heat distribution	3
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	3
The impact of deep learning–based equipment usage detection on building energy demand estimation	3
Evaluation of new dew point evaporative cooler heat and mass exchanger designs with different geometries	3
Reduced multiple model predictive control of an heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system using gap metric and stability margin	3
Measuring and modeling moisture environment in underground metro stations during commissioning stage: A case study	3
User-based fuzzy end-use modeling of indoor urban residential water demand	3
A parametric analysis of future climate change effects on the energy performance and carbon emissions of a Chinese prefabricated timber house	3
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	2
Residential buildings with brain-computer interface functionality: An elevator case study	2
Investigation of displacement ventilation performance under various room configurations using computational fluid dynamics simulation	2
Prediction models of bioaerosols inside office buildings: A field study investigation	2
Development of methods to measure the potential of a plaster to regulate indoor humidity	2
Tracking building operational energy and carbon emissions using S-curve trajectories—a prototype tool	2
Building performance evaluation of low-energy dwellings with and without smart thermostats	2
Passive noise control in buildings: An engineering case study of ducted systems	2
Development of a simplified calibrated building simulation model of a supermarket for proposed ECMs and control strategies impact evaluation	2
Maxmaladaptation, occupant behaviour and energy performance gap	2
Methods on reflecting electricity consumption change characteristics and electricity consumption forecasting based on clustering algorithms and fuzzy matrices in buildings	2
An improvement in clash detection process by prioritizing relevance clashes using fuzzy-AHP methods	2
Study of novel solar assisted heating system	1
Heating and cooling supply estimation to control buildings temperature using resistor-capacitor thermal model, unscented kalman filter, and nonlinear least square method	1
Assessment of the validity of using a radiant panel in the low-height floor heating	1

Frost suppression performance of an air source heat pump using sensible heat from indoor air to preheat outdoor air	1
Validation of computational fluid dynamics simulations for determining pressure loss coefficients of ventilation components	1
Fire safety study of a perlite concrete chimney and wooden ceilings used in buildings based on experimental tests and CFD analysis	1
An indoor airflow distribution predictor using machine learning for a real-time healthy building monitoring system in the tropics	1
Potential carbon emissions reduction related to the recovery of unutilised waste heat	1
Price structures for electricity supply and potential consequences for building services systems	1
The need for decarbonisation	1
Mock-up experimental study on the performance of a combined cooling-domestic hot water-ground source heat pump system	1
The safe evacuation of persons from a building operating within COVID-19 restrictions	1
Automatic velocity measurement system applied to elevator overspeed governors	1
A revised PMV model: From a physiological standpoint	1
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	1
Assessing the performance gap of two dynamic thermal modelling software tools when comparing with real-time data in relation to thermal loss	1
Using different waste as resilient layers for impact sound insulation improvement: New alternative to commercial layers?	1
Closed cavity façade, an innovative energy saving façade	1
Joint probability distribution of air temperature and global solar radiation for outdoor design conditions based on copula approach	1
Overcoming the influence of a 2 metre long pipe offset on water flow capacity of drainage with secondary ventilation in a high-rise building	1
Temporal resolution of photovoltaic electricity production with school energy consumption: a London primary school case study	1
Modular personalized climatization testing infrastructure with smartphone-based user feedback	1
Comparative analysis of the whole life carbon of three construction methods of a UK-based supermarket	1
Influence of gap size between aluminium radiant sheets on the efficiency of lightweight floor heating	1
A novel blinds control approach based on dynamic radiance and solar radiation energy prediction	1
Static grid carbon factors – Can we do better?	1
Investigating the opportunity for cooling the London underground through waste heat recovery	1