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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of recent UK fire safety guidance for covered car parks and electric vehicles	20
Domestic heating with compact combination hybrids (gas boiler and heat pump): A simple English stock model of different heating system scenarios	19
A new approach to smoke control systems in complex atria	19
Development of a simplified calibrated building simulation model of a supermarket for proposed ECMs and control strategies impact evaluation	19
Practical applications	17
Night cooling by hybrid ventilation – analytical predictions of the purge time	16
Co-designing with community for net zero: Case study of a housing estate	15
From PROBE to net zero: A study of soft landings’ contribution	15
Evaluating the performance of six 1970s off-gas deep retrofit bungalows	14
Demand response with heat pumps: Practical implementation of three different control options	14
A review of approaches and applications in building stock energy and indoor environment modelling	13
Freezing from the heat: Building overcooling in Qatar	12
Humidity or air-speed? A climate chamber investigation into adaptive thermal comfort potential	12
Managing energy performance in buildings from design to operation using modelling and calibration	11
Optimization of chiller sequencing control for district cooling system at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port	11
Towards net-zero futures: Modular Passivhaus design as a solution to meeting national carbon targets for new housing	10
Joint probability distribution of air temperature and global solar radiation for outdoor design conditions based on copula approach	10
Thermal regulation capacity of a green roof in the Mediterranean climate of Istanbul	9
The risks of oversizing domestic water piping – Measurement of peak flows in multistory residential buildings	9
Investigating the opportunity for cooling the London underground through waste heat recovery	8
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	8
Correlation of AC energy consumption and passive thermal comfort with floor levels in tropical high-rise residential dwellings	8
A data-driven framework for occupancy optimisation strategies towards energy demand reduction in non-domestic buildings	8
Investigation of the effectiveness of top-down natural ventilation of a poultry building in a hot-summer mediterranean climate	7
Investigating energy performance of build-to-rent buildings in england	7

Reduced multiple model predictive control of an heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system using gap metric and stability margin	7
Our climate conditions are already changing – Should we care?	7
Numerical study and experimental validation of heat transfer in a CenoPCM reinforced multi-layered meta-material wall for energy efficient buildings	7
Practical Applications	6
A farewell to learned journals or simply AI signalling hasta la vista?	6
Corrigendum to “CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady statemodelling”	6
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	6
Implementation of new high-rise building staircase pressure differential system improvements	6
A data-driven workflow to improve energy efficient operation of commercial buildings: A review with real-world examples	6
An indoor airflow distribution predictor using machine learning for a real-time healthy building monitoring system in the tropics	5
Universal elevator round trip time calculation for general traffic conditions with extension to batch arrivals	5
Night cooling by hybrid supply ventilation – analytical predictions of airflow rates and the ‘hybrid ventilation triangles’	5
Preparation and performance study of a novel radiant panel for thermal and cooling storage with phase change materials	5
Passive noise control in buildings: An engineering case study of ducted systems	5
Closed cavity façade, an innovative energy saving façade	5
The effect of the airflow pattern inside air gaps on the assessment of interstitial mould: A theoretical approach	4
Ambient loop district heating and cooling networks with integrated mobility, power and interseasonal storage	4
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	4
Practical Applications	4
Using different waste as resilient layers for impact sound insulation improvement: New alternative to commercial layers?	4
Development of methods to measure the potential of a plaster to regulate indoor humidity	4
BSER&T special issue: Sustainable technologies and systems for net zero carbon buildings and communities	4
Prediction models of bioaerosols inside office buildings: A field study investigation	3
Energy performance and loss analysis of 100 kWp grid-connected rooftop solar photovoltaic system	3
Comparative analysis of the whole life carbon of three construction methods of a UK-based supermarket	3
Improving the ventilation of a classroom to achieve heating energy savings and better indoor air quality	3
Fault diagnosis of elevator systems based on multidomain feature extraction and SHAP feature selection	3
The effect of opening windows on the airflow distribution inside naturally ventilated residential bedrooms with ceiling fans	3
A parametric analysis of future climate change effects on the energy performance and carbon emissions of a Chinese prefabricated timber house	3
Framework for integrated multi-scale computational fluid dynamics simulations in natural ventilation design	3
The relationship between comfort, personal control and productivity in UK offices	3
An improvement in clash detection process by prioritizing relevance clashes using fuzzy-AHP methods	3
Indoor occupancy estimation from carbon dioxide concentration using parameter estimation algorithms	2
Knowledge shared is knowledge grown	2
Empowering smart cities with digital twins of buildings: Applications and implementation considerations of data-driven energy modelling in building management	2
Digital-twin-controlled ventilation for real-time resilience against transmission of airborne infectious disease in an indoor food court	2
Classical pressure profile prediction using a hybrid form of artificial neural network algorithm applied to building drainage systems	2
Energy, exergy and economic assessments of the dual-mode evaporative cooler for various international climate zones	2
Demand response strategy study of a radiant roof cooling system based on the thermal inertia of the building envelope	2
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	2
Automatic velocity measurement system applied to elevator overspeed governors	2
Towards implementing an indoor environmental quality standard in buildings: A pilot study	2
Validation of computational fluid dynamics simulations for determining pressure loss coefficients of ventilation components	2
Sensitivity analysis of the impact of environmental product declaration values on whole life carbon assessment: A case study using expanded polystyrene insulation for the retrofit of a building in Tur	2
Development of a comprehensive car safety gears testing procedure for low- to medium-speed lifts in Hong Kong	2
Practical applications	1
Practical applications	1
A review of research on dynamic thermal comfort	1
Optimal control of critical fresh air volume based on sectional adjustment of fresh air and return air dampers	1
A novel blinds control approach based on dynamic radiance and solar radiation energy prediction	1

Evaluating UKCP18-Based weather files for overheating assessment using building simulation: A case study for a flat in london	1
Development and evaluation of a vision-based transfer learning approach for indoor fire and smoke detection	1
Building services engineering research and technology	1
Practical applications	1
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	1
A literature review of building energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics co-simulation strategies and its implications on the accuracy of energy predictions	1
Streamlining life cycle assessment for complex Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing products – Lessons from lighting	1
Measurement and rapid assessment of indoor air quality at mass gathering events to assess ventilation performance and reduce aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2	1
Decarbonising at scale: Extracting strategic thinking from EPC and deprivation data	1
Practical applications	1
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	1
Evaluating whole life carbon impact of climate control systems in net-zero building designs	1
Revealing selected ‘unknown unknowns’ of building services engineering	1
Evaluation of new dew point evaporative cooler heat and mass exchanger designs with different geometries	1
Investigation of the fire hazard of underground space fire scenarios in urban metro tunnels under natural ventilation: Analysis of the impact of tunnel slope on smoke back-layering length	1
The potential for the Passive House standard in Longyearbyen – the High Arctic	1
An investigation of the electrical and thermal performances of the photovoltaic wall with different air gap thicknesses and modes in winter	1
User-based fuzzy end-use modeling of indoor urban residential water demand	1
A comparison between the impact of dynamic envelope control strategies on the buildings’ smart readiness indicator and modelled performance	1
Practical Applications	1
Producing domestic energy benchmarks using a large disaggregate stock model	1
Measuring and modeling moisture environment in underground metro stations during commissioning stage: A case study	1